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Energy Secretary Wright says U.S. 'not ready' to escort oil tankers through Strait of Hormuz yet (Spencer Kimball/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/12/energy-secretary-wright-says-us-not-ready-to-escort-tankers-through-strait-of-hormuz-yet.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260312/p51#a260312p51

Western countries announced a record release of oil from their strategic reserves yesterday: 40% of the reserves in the US, 30% for IEA as a whole.
Yet, burning tankers in the Gulf pushed up the oil price in the night. This ain't over yet.

Mr. Wright, the energy secretary, caused a market commotion Tuesday
when he posted on social media that the Navy had successfully escorted an oil tanker through the Strait of Hormuz.
His post drove up stocks and reassured oil markets.
Then, when he deleted the post after administration officials said no escorts had taken place, markets were once again thrust into turmoil.
Efforts to resume shipments have been complicated by intelligence that Iran was preparing to la…

How Trump and His Advisers Miscalculated Iran’s Response to War
In the lead-up to the U.S.-Israeli attack, President Trump downplayed the risks to the energy markets as a short-term concern that should not overshadow the mission to decapitate the Iranian regime.

Energieagentur laut US-Medienbericht für Freigabe von Ölvorräten | @…
https://www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/iea-oelreserven-freigabe-100.html
Reminder: na de laatste keer dat de strategische voorraden aangesproken zijn, zijn de voorraden maar 'beperkt' aangevuld.

For everyone who thought oil & gas markets would calm down already: Three cargo vessels hit in the Strait of Hormuz today.
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cd70wzw9vqlt?post=asset:9084e0db-f059-434b-8964-156ec0321d30#post

Cargo ship catches fire in Strait of Hormuz after three vessels hit by 'unknown projectiles'
The reports of attacks on commercial ships came after the US said it "eliminated" 16 Iranian mine-layers in the area. Elsewhere, two drones were downed near Dubai airport.

After Trump administration officials gave a closed-door briefing to lawmakers on Tuesday,
Senator Christopher S. Murphy, Democrat of Connecticut, said on social media that the administration had “NO PLAN” for the Strait of Hormuz
and did “not know how to get it safely back open.”
Inside the administration, some officials are growing pessimistic about the lack of a clear strategy to finish the war.
But they have been careful not to express that directly to the presiden…

How Trump and His Advisers Miscalculated Iran’s Response to War
In the lead-up to the U.S.-Israeli attack, President Trump downplayed the risks to the energy markets as a short-term concern that should not overshadow the mission to decapitate the Iranian regime.

Shares of Kyndryl, the US company that will take control of the Dutch DigID digital identity app (if government doesn't prevent this) crash as the CFO leaves and the quarterly report is postponed.

De koers keldert van Kyndryl, het bedrijf dat Solvinity wil kopen
De koers van het Amerikaanse bedrijf Kyndryl is meer dan gehalveerd op Wall Street. Dat volgde op het nieuws dat de financiële topman van de IT-dienstverlener maandag opstapte en het bedrijf zijn volledige kwartaalrapport later indient, melden persbureaus. Kyndryl is een afsplitsing van IBM. Het bedrijf kwam recent in Nederland in het nieuws omdat Kyndryl het van oorsprong Nederlandse bedrijf…

For Saint Augustine of Hippo, writing in North Africa in the fourth century,
authentic attention placed us in relation with the divine.
For Saint Ignatius of Loyola, holed up in his cave in Catalonia in the 1520s,
what he called “attentive contemplation” was both a daily practice and a moral imperative.
During the Enlightenment, close attention emerged as a virtue essential to knowledge and disciplined investigation,
-- as demonstrated in 1740, when the natural…

Opinion | The ‘Attention Economy’ Is a Lie
It started in a laboratory. No one could have predicted where it would end.

US-Start-up Overview Energy testet drahlose Energieübertragung aus dem Flugzeug
Das Start-up Overview Energy will Solaranlagen auf der Erde mit Lasern aus dem All beleuchten. Ein Test der drahtlosen Energieübertragung verlief erfolgreich.

The people and government of Iraq would like to thank the US and Israel for further destabilising the region by starting another war.
https://www.turkiyetoday.com/region/iraq-plunged-into-nationwide-blackout-as-us…

Iraq plunged into nationwide blackout as US tells citizens to leave immediately - Türkiye Today
Iraq's entire national power grid has collapsed in a total blackout as the country reels from the widening US-Israeli military campaign against Iran