Pipelines, inventories and lower demand have absorbed the loss of 15.5mn barrels a day, but stockpiles and refiners are running out of slack, the consultancy's research arm says.

Iran war's Hormuz shock is biggest energy disruption on record - McKinsey

MEOG - Middle East Oil & Gas
By Ben Aris in Berlin 5 October 2026
The closure of the Strait of Hormuz is the largest energy supply disruption in modern history, but the world has coped better than feared thanks to shock absorbers built after the 1970s, the McKinsey Global Institute says in a report published on...

El Niño, oil shocks and broken utilities turn the Philippines into Asia's water crisis test case

REM - Renewable Energy
By IntelliNews - Jakarta Bureau 5 October 2026
The Philippines must deploy PHP1.07 trillion ($17bn) in fresh capital expenditures through 2030 to upgrade its water and sanitation network or face acute supply deficits within fifteen years.

Vietnam starts Mekong Delta rice and biomass energy complex

AsiaElec - Asia Power
REM - Renewable Energy
By IntelliNews - New Taipei Bureau 5 October 2026
Construction began in Vietnam's Can Tho City on October 3 on a rice processing complex with annual capacity of 500,000 tonnes and an attached biomass fuel supply centre.

Pakistan promises IMF sale of nine power distributors by 2027

AsiaElec - Asia Power
By IntelliNews - New Taipei Bureau 5 October 2026
Pakistan has told the International Monetary Fund it will sell nine state-owned electricity distribution companies by December 2027.
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