Energy-security items tie together supply shocks, strategic reserves, pipeline and LNG politics, and grid stress when reliability or coercion—not only retail prices—is the lens.
8 Newsorga stories grouped around “Energy security”, published from 2026-05-08 through 2026-05-11. Most pieces are in World, Business, and Markets. Newest first below.
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Markets
Asia's Monday open on May 11, 2026 saw oil prices jump roughly $3 a barrel after Washington and Tehran failed to agree on the US 14-point peace proposal and the Strait of Hormuz stayed largely closed: Brent crude futures climbed $3.21 or 3.17 percent to $104.50 a barrel by 22:03 GMT and US West Texas Intermediate rose $3.06 or 3.21 percent to $98.48 a barrel, almost fully erasing the previous week's six-percent loss that traders had taken on the hope a deal was close, and putting JPMorgan chief executive Jamie Dimon's April warning of stickier oil-and-commodity price shocks and a longer central-bank rate path squarely back into the 2026 market frame.
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Business
Global oil supply crashed by 10.1 million barrels a day in March, the largest monthly drop ever recorded, after Strait of Hormuz shipping was almost fully shut; demand has now started falling too, with consumption down 0.8 mb/d year-on-year and a further 1.5 mb/d decline forecast for the second quarter.
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Business
Speaking in Hyderabad on Sunday at the inauguration of Rs 9,400 crore worth of Telangana projects, Prime Minister Narendra Modi asked Indians to cut petrol, diesel, gas, gold and non-essential foreign-travel spending to protect foreign exchange reserves as the West Asia war keeps oil import bills at war-time highs.
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World
State media confirmed Islamabad’s mediator channel carried Tehran’s written answer the same stretch Reuters-packaged copy tracked the Marshall Islands-flag liquefied natural gas carrier Al Kharaitiyat (211,986 cubic-metre cargo capacity per LSEG) from Ras Laffan toward Pakistan’s Port Qasim.
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World
A narrow Arabian Gulf corridor funnels enough hydrocarbon tonne-miles that even partial disruption rewires Brent, Asian refinery sourcing, maritime war-risk clauses, power prices in gas-linked grids, food logistics (via fuel bills), and current-account stress for import-heavy economies—often faster than diplomats issue joint statements.
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World
Tehran’s army spokesman told semi-official media that complying with Washington’s sanctions earns trouble in the Strait—framing Hormuz passage as conditional just as diplomacy sputters and US-led maritime measures stay in headlines.
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