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In his obsession to end the noisy motorcycles, the EU has just knew the coup of grace

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The sound of motorcycles has no midpoint: either it puts your nerves or your hair bristles every time you hear it. The second group is quite a niche and, in general, noisy motorcycles are a problem within the urban environment, so the European Union has decided to end them forever. Changes. EC 92.03 regulations legalizes a historical change that will affect, and much, both to the motorcycle industry As to the auxiliary industry of its star complement, the exhaust pipes. From now on, any motorcycle manufactured with the new anti -antaminant regulations will not be able to extract the DB Killer. What is the DB Killer. The most changed accessory on motorcycles is the exhaust pipe. In some cases to earn an extra CV, and mostly to improve the sound of the motorcycle. As its name indicates, the DB Killer is the internal silencer of the exhaust tube, normally screwed. This causes escape gases to pass through a narrower and more perforated channel, reducing the volume. In most cases, the escapes of the auxiliary industry have a removable dB, allowing to increase the sound of the motorcycle in a very simple way in minutes. What the EU says about him. The new EC 92.03 regulation says goodbye completely to the DB Killer. Exhaust systems manufacturers must comply with this new legislation, and may not manufacture approved escapes that allow the silencer to be extracted. These measures apply to street motorcycles, so manufacturers who want to sell escapes that comply with Euro regulations will have to stick to restriction. The only sale scenario for the DB Killer will be the circuit use, with escapes that will continue for sale, but will not be approved for circulation in street. An obsession that comes from afar. Especially noisy motorcycles have been focusing on the European Union for a long time. The Euro 4 regulations, approved in 2016, limited the noise to 80 dB. Euro 5 began including moving tests and with the new Euro5+ and Futura EURO6 The controls are expected to remain increasingly restrictive. Beyond limitations in homologation, there are already European countries devising systems to avoid noise in its cities. The Noise radars They work in countries like France, capable of photographing every vehicle that overcomes the allowed noise in decibels. Precedents. In countries such as Austria it is not possible to circulate with motorcycles that They exceed 95db in stopa regulation that does not apply to cars. Others, such as Germany, restrict the circulation of motorcycles on weekends by certain routes, and have been enabling noise sensors that warn about whether the motorcycle is noisy. Image | BMW In Xataka | Barcelona is the city of Spain with more motorcycles. Now the Generalitat considers limiting its circulation

34% for all US products

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On April 2, 2025, the president of the United States, Donald Trump, announced the implementation of the “reciprocal tariffs” to regulate imports. Thus, the United States It imposes extraordinary tariffs ranging from 20% applied to the EU at 32% of Taiwan and up to 46% of Vietnam. But if there is a clear rival in this critical regular commercial war, it is China, to which Trump already “punished” with some tariffs of 34%. What has China done? Return exactly the same punishment to the US. China imposes tariffs of 34% to the US. China has announced which will impose additional tariffs of 34% to the imports that China makes of the United States. The measure is produced in response to the tariffs announced by Donald Trump this week. After yesterday’s announcement, the total taxes of the United States to their Chinese imports will approach 60%. These are some of the countries most affected by the tariffs announced by Donald Trump, and the value of imports of those countries/blocks in 2024 in billions of dollars. Source: CNN. Intimidation. From Beijing, they emphasize that “the United States actions do not conform to the rules of international trade, seriously undermine China’s legitimate rights and interests and are a typical example of unilateral intimidation.” Tit for tat. The reprisals that have occurred in China also threaten to occur throughout the planet. Canada has imposed 25% tariffs on American cars, for example, and the EU It has already indicated that prepares his answer “if the negotiations fail.” Black Friday for bags. Ibex 35, the most affected, falls 5.5% and other European bags are falling falls between 1 and 2%. While, The collapse of technological valueswhich had already been pronounced yesterday, it will aggravate even more. Before the opening of the markets “The Magnificent” fall between 4 and 6%. Sight recession. The analysts of the JPMorgan consultant do not stop reviewing their forecasts regarding the possibility that the United States enters recession this year, and right now They estimate it by 60%. Before Trump’s announcement on Wednesday that estimate was 40%. Unknown effects. This total commercial war initiated by the US raises colossal collateral efectos. As they point out In the countryone of them can be “the diversion of products that until now could be sold in the first world economy” and that Now they will look for other destinations like the EU. Urusla von Der Leyden, leader of the European Commission, already warned that they were going to analyze these effects “because we cannot absorb world overcapacity.” China imposes export control. As they point out In CNNChina He added 11 US companies to their “list of unreliable entities”, but its implementation of export controls For 16 US companies that will see the export of “dual use products” (civil and military), such as those that manufacture drones. These 16 companies are involved in aerospace industries (Hig Point AeroTechnologies or S3 Aerodefense, for example), Surveillance (Cyberlux), Military Logistics (Cubic Corporation) or advanced manufacturing (Textore). These measures are probably a retaliation against vetoes to exports from Chinese companies Like Huawei or Dji. China argues that these US companies “can endanger China’s national interests and security.” Also They have been added export controls For seven rare earth types. Margin to negotiate. The US tariffs are activated on April 9, while China has indicated that its taxes will be activated a day later, on April 10. They leave a small margin for potential negotiation. Trump delayed the application of tariffs to Mexico and Canadabut finally activated them in early March. In Xataka | Nike is caught in a perfect storm: the new US tariffs are his last lunge

We review retro portable consoles in crossover

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In the early 90s if you wanted to play video games you basically had to do it at home or in recreational. But then the first mass portable consoles arrived and showed that this segment had an extraordinary potential. This is how Nintendo He brought us his mythical Game Boy And how then many other increasingly and more versatile portable consoles would come. The recent presentation of the promising Nintendo Switch 2 It is a great opportunity to make that review. Of them we have had the opportunity to speak in the Fifth episode of crossoverthe biweekly program in which Xataka and Gama Topes join forces. One that as on other occasions brings a few surprises. He also does it with a somewhat shorter format with especially fun novelties. To begin with, content creator Lorena Garam takes advantage of her ease to imitate accents to trolize with great art the technical services of some technology stores. But there are also sections that allow us to find out How much does it cost to make an iPhone and other well -known products, or the interview with Juancho Marqués, poet and rapper. And all presented by Jaume Lahoz, who this week has managed the sea of ​​good without Carlos Santa Engracia. On YouTube | Crossover

The new Chinese tariffs are a mosquadilla for Apple. It is just what Huawei needed to dominate Asia

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China has not taken to respond to new tariff rates imposed By the Trump administration, further increasing the pressure on this commercial war scenario. The new situation. After the Last climb announced on April 3the tariffs that the United States applies to imported products from China already reach 54%. In reciprocal response, China has announced a new 34%rate package. The US rates enter into force on April 9 and those of China on April 10, with a day of strategic difference. A margin that opens the door to possible last minute negotiations to adjust or avoid the implementation of tariffs, giving time to both countries to search for agreements before the measures impact their economies. In this stage of tariff chaos there are two very important actors for the Chinese market: Huawei and Apple. The golden opportunity for Huawei. Huawei is positioned as a key actor in technological matters with strong government support. At the beginning of 2025 it has become the Second manufacturer in Chinabehind living and just ahead of Apple. Beyond smartphones sales, Huawei is a crucial company for the country in relation to network infrastructure, manufacture of multiplatform semiconductors and software. Currently, the company is a symbol of technological self -sufficiency, both in software and hardware. Huawei recently announced his plans to abandon Android in favor of Harmonyosa system designed for the Asian market (at least, for now), with its own development and without a trace of foreign code. Similarly, the company has been in full commercial fight for years to be competent in the manufacture of semiconductors, currently blocked in seven nanometers lithographybut having achieved your own manufacturing With the support of SMIC, the Chinese giant for chips function. Quota dance. Only 1%market share separate (17%) from Huawei (16%), and with an Apple (15%) that could be out of the map after the entry into force of a new 34%tariff to American products, the scenario that is drawn is that of an absolute leadership by Chinese manufacturers. For Huawei, who has been climbing positions for a few years, it is the best possible scenario. The company is resuming its position in the market thanks to the support of the Chinese government (who has invested in national machinery for chip manufacturing and provides tax exemptions to technology like this). It will not be the only beneficiary. With the exception of Apple, China is a market in which national companies cover full sales photography. I live, Huawei, Oppo and Honor are the best -selling brands, with quite similar figures and market share. China has been a key market for Apple for years. At the end of 2024, this territory meant about 30% of its income. However, in the first quarter of 2025 and in the middle of the commercial war, Chinese participation in Apple’s income fell to 15.83%. An even more aggressive tariff would mean an important setback for the American company, who now faces a complicated scenario in which tariffs to countries like Vietnam or India put their manufacturing and margins strategy in check. Five days of doubt. The reciprocal tariffs between the United States and China threaten to shake the entire world, from the drop in stock market and increase in the manufacturing costs of companies outside technology such as Niketo the hard blow suffered by practically All Big Tech. Next week it will be crucial to know if there is room for negotiation, or if the commercial war is about to start its crudest phase. Image | Xataka In Xataka | Huawei no longer competes: he is building his own parallel reality

Mediamarkt has released one of the best offers on this Samsung TV. OLED screen, 65 inches and up to 144 Hz

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Mediamarkt has returned to launch one of the best offers in the store in the offers of the day. Those discounts that launches on Fridays last the whole weekend, so for a few days we can buy the smart TV Samsung S90D by 1,399 euros. And a lot of eye because until April 30 if we register the TV in the official Samsung store we can take a 200 euros refund. Samsung S90D (OLED, 65 inches) * Some price may have changed from the last review OLED screen, 65 inches, Alexa, Dolby Atmos … The Samsung S90D that we can find on the offer in Mediamarkt is a smart TV that, in this case, mounts a very good 65 -inch OLED screen. Of course, it offers a 4K resolution and also reaches a soda rate of up to 144 Hz. It also includes the film director that we usually see on Samsung televisions and is compatible with the format HDR. As for the audio section, we find speakers that offer a 40W RMS Audio Power to 2.1 channels. They are compatible with both Dolby Atmos As with Q-Symphony, something we can take advantage of if we have a brand sound bar that is also compatible. On the other hand, it should also be noted that Samsung’s TV integrates the voice assistant Alexaprovides in mode Multi-View to divide the screen into two sections And thus see two different contents and has four HDMI ports (4K at 144 Hz). You may also interest you Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K Max (last generation) | Streaming device compatible with Wi-Fi 6e and environmental background * Some price may have changed from the last review Samsung Sound Bar HW-S700D/ZF 2024-Ultra Slim Design, Dolby Atmos Wireless, Q-Symphony, 3.1 channels and Spacefit Sound * Some price may have changed from the last review Some of the links of this article are affiliated and can report a benefit to Xataka. In case of non -availability, offers may vary. Image | Samsung In Xataka | Best televisions in quality price. Which to buy and seven recommended 4K 4K In Xataka | Better sound bars in quality price (2025). Which to buy and seven recommended models from 140 euros

Tiktok was hours again in the US. Donald Trump has just extended the prohibition period again

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Millions of Tiktok users in the United States woke up this Friday without knowing if the next day they could continue using the application. Bytedonce, the social network’s parent company, had a deadline on Saturday, April 5 to sell its operations in the country. If not, a law approved in 2024 would technically prevent him from continuing to operate in US territory. Donald Trump, who had already stopped the veto on his first day of mandate, has intervened again. This time he has done it through an executive order that extends in 75 days the deadline before the measure enters into force. It is a temporary respite not only for those who use it by entertainment, but also for many content and merchants who use it regularly. The sale of Tiktok wins time. “My administration has worked hard to reach an agreement to save Tiktok and we have made considerable progress. The agreement requires more work to ensure that all the necessary approvals are signed,” said the White House tenant in a publication in Truth Social. “We hope to work with Tiktok and China to close the agreement,” he added. Several interested buyers. The possible sale of Tiktok in the United States has aroused the interest of several technological giants. In recent days they have sounded Names like Walmart, Amazon, Oracle and Applovin. Investment signatures such as Blackstone have also appeared. Although there is no official confirmation, Trump has already advanced that “There are many potential buyers.” Tariffs as a weapon. Tariffs imposed by the Trump administration are news again for its international impact. In the case of China, which already faced a 2 %rate, new taxes of 34 %have been recently added, which raises the total of 54 %. In this context, Trump has suggested that he is willing to soften them if the Chinese government collaborates to facilitate the Tiktok sales agreement. China must authorize the agreement. Tiktok initially refused to sell its operations in the United States, but it seems that the position has begun to move. Today, a possible agreement no longer seems so far or unlikely. Of course: any decision must inevitably happen by the Chinese government, which does not go through its best moment in relations with Washington due to the current tariff war. How have we get here? The current situation has its origin in a lEy approved in 2024, during the mandate of Joe Bidenthat forces Bytedance to sell Tiktok operations in the United States or face its ban. The central argument of American legislators is the risk to national security: they fear that the Chinese government can force the parent company to deliver user data. In January, Tiktok was inaccessible for about 14 hours After the first deadline without agreement expired. Application stores removed the app, but access was restored after Donald Trump’s promise to postpone the measure. The day he assumed the position, he signed an executive order that extended the prohibition period for 75 days, which won on Saturday and has been extended. Images | Solen Feyissa | Brandon Day | The White House In Xataka | How will the end of Tiktok in the US: without updates, outside stores and a progressive degradation until its total shutdown

His true drama is autonomous driving

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The United States took the submachine gun, loaded her tariffs and downloaded her bullets all over the world. Except for exceptions, the Donald Trump government announced on April 2 that it will tax with additional economic measures to anyone who, according to their accounts, has mistreated the United States. China, one of the most punished countries, has already responded. The tariffs. A quick review of what has happened. Donald Trump presented on April 2 the largest tariff load for a century, according to experts consulted by BBC. The European Union will pay 20% as of April 9 for putting your products in the United States. United Kingdom, however, will pay 10%. Russia will not pay anything. China will pay 39%. An island inhabited by seals and penguins will pay 10%. It seems random but it is the result of applying a flat rate of 10% of tariffs to all countries. Then, the commercial balance is taken and if it is negative for the United States, it is divided between the imported, it is multiplied by 100 and, for the executive of the American country you have the figure of the alleged undercover tariffs that each country or region imposes on US products. Donald Trump has taken that figure and divides it by two. The result is the tariff applied to each country. A blunt answer. For China, new tariffs are “subjective and unilateral valuations (…) do not conform to international trade standards” and, deep down, are a “typical unilateral intimidation practice.” These are the words, collected by The countrythat the Chinese government has used in a statement to confirm that it will impose a 34% tariff to all goods from the United States. This 34% adds to 20% that the United States already announced in early March and was answered From China with new tariffs to specific sectors (such as the field), the prohibition of selling products to 15 US companies for security reasons or Restrictions in the sale of rare minerals. Until now, Chinese companies The tariffs had been jumping In products for less than 800 euros. These, as of April 9, will have to raise their prices by 54% (20% already established and 34% announced on April 2) compared to the cost of just a few months ago. China will apply its tariffs from April 10, which looks like an open door to negotiation. How are you going to Tesla in China? Elon Musk’s company is one of the most settled American companies in China. Tesla sold 1.79 million electric cars worldwide. Of them, 657,000 vehicles were sold in the Asian country. That is, one in three cars manufactured by Tesla was bought in China, according to data from Reuters. It was a sales record in a year where He could not sell more cars than the previous exercise worldwide, a rarity. Of those 657,000 electric cars, Cleantechnica He points out that more than 480,000 of them were Tesla Model Y. This electric SUV that became the best -selling car in the world in 2023 is, by far, the best beta in the mine that Tesla has in China. The Tesla Model and is the best -selling electric car in the country. China has a category called “New Energy” where the electric and plug -in hybrids add up. Above Tesla Model and only the Byd Song was placed but this is sold in hybrid version. The Seagull Byd, second best -selling purely electric car, about 27,000 registrations below the Tesla model. An extreme dependence. The company has ended up based on China on the electric SUV. Behind the Tesla Model and, his Tesla Model 3 was the best -selling car with a lot of difference. So much that according to data collected by Autovista24The Berlina touched the 177,000 registrations. Added both vehicles is the result: Tesla lives two models in China (Model and and Model 3). The Tesla Model S and Model X are missing. Yes, the company sells them there but they are models considered luxurious to the point that Xiaomi boasts to put in the market an ultra xiaomi su7 that is sold in China for a much lower price to Tesla Model S Plaid, with which it compares in benefits. Little impact … A 34% tariff to all goods from the United States would affect very little in practice to Tesla sales in China. The only two cars that would be punished are the Tesla Model S and Model X that, as we see, have irrelevant sales in the final results account. They are models considered of luxury and Chinese clients have turned their backs to any product that is not local in that price segment. Tesla manufactures those two cars exclusively in the United States But his Tesla Model 3 and Model and yes he manufactures them in China with concrete specifications for the country. Everything indicates that they would not be affected by the new tariffs. In the opposite direction, everything that Tesla sells in the United States is manufactured in the country so it is Of the few companies that can breathe Relieved And although the year has started horrible for Tesla in China, in March it has sold 78,828 vehicles according to data from CNEVPOST. That means that the replacement of Tesla Model and is already paying off. Despite a 11.8% drop compared to the same month of 2024 begins to move in usual figures compared to previous years. Little impact … direct. The economic impact for Tesla should not be very high, as we have commented, but there are other fronts that the company has to take into account this commercial war. The first and that does affect it directly is the confidence of investors. Between bad results and the new Chinese tariff flying out, Tesla will face the day based on a significant fall. The second is to see if China is willing to close Tesla’s tap in its businesses in China. The company has been trying to … Read more

They are millmillonarios thanks to the AI

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They say that who does not risk does not win. If for something they have characterized the three years we have been Armament career for AIit has been precisely because of the huge sums of money with which risk capital investors have watered companies that develop this technology. These investments have made the main actors in that new industry Milmillonarios has been made In record time. In fact, As he pointed out Forbesin 2024, advances in this technology have promoted unprecedented growth in the technological sector, creating 46 new millmillonarios and consolidating To technological giants They have opted for this technology. According to Forbes estimates, the combined heritage of technological leaders related to the development of AI has already reached The 3.2 billion dollarswith an increase of 600,000 million dollars in just one year. This economic impulse makes the artificial intelligence sector the most lucrative of 2024, benefiting both large Magnates with consolidated fortunesas to small entrepreneurs who have become new millmillionaires. The golden year for artificial intelligence Since Openai launched the chatgpt model in 2022, competition in the sector intensified with new models and AI applications that quickly captured the attention of investors. Among the great market movements, the case of Anthropic stands out for its success. Founded in 2021 by seven former employees of OpenAI, the company reached an assessment of 61.5 billion after A financing round of 3.5 billion. That has turned its founding partners, Dario and Daniela Amodei, Tom Brown, Jack Clark, Jared Kaplan, Sam McCandlish and Christopher Olah, in new millmillonarios thanks to the good results demonstrated by her hybrid model Claude 3.7 Sonnet. Its estimated heritage is 1.2 billion euros eacheither. Something similar has happened with, Sam Altman, former head of the founders of Anthropic who, after a year in which Openai has become The great rival to beatthe CEO of the company consolidates its assets and its entry into the list of Milmillonarios de Forbes. Sam Altman has an estimated fortune in some 1.4 billion dollarsdespite what Your salary is lower than that of its software engineers. The great whales of technology The great technological magnates have managed to capitalize on the Boom of Artificial Intelligence, significantly increasing their fortunes in the last year. Elon Musk, for example, managed to expand its heritage thanks to Xai and recent integration with x. Similarly, Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, has seen how His fortune increased in 21.7 billion dollars Thanks to the demand for chips for the manufacture of the company it founded. In the same line is Larry Ellison, co -founder of Oracle, who saw his fortune as in 2024 It grew at 51,000 million dollars Thanks to great collaborations in AI projects. Among them, Stargate, the 500,000 million dollar agreement Between Oracle, Softbank, OpenAi, Nvidia and Microsoft that has the approval of the US government. Alphabet didn’t get far behind in this race. The launch of your Gemini 2.0 model fired the value of the company’s shares. That increase added 30,000 million dollars more to the coffers of each of its founders, Serguéi Brin and Larry Page. In fact, the profitability of Google’s AI has reached such an extreme, that even the PICHAI SUCKING ACTION PACKAGECEO of the company, has made it one of the new millmillonarians who enters this year to be part of the Forbes list, with a heritage of 1.1 billion dollars. Mark Zuckerberg too has added about 39,000 million dollars to your fortune thanks to Meta AI initiatives. That positioned him as the second richest person in the world, with an estimated heritage of 216,000 million. The new pond fish While the giants maintain their domain, a group of emerging entrepreneurs has achieved the status of billionaires thanks to the glowing success of their AI startups. Among the most prominent cases we find Liang Wenfeng, the founder of Deepseek, whose technology aims to compete with Openai at a much lower cost. Another notable incorporation has been Alexandr Wang, founder of Scale AI, who already briefly entered the exclusive Milmillonarios Club in 2021, but his fortune was diminished by investors’ swings. In 2025, the child prodigy of data labeling for AI has returned strongly after raising more than 1,000 million dollars for its company and closing a key contract with the US Department of Defense. That has reported an estimated fortune of 2,000 million dollars At 28 years. In Xataka | In 2024, the richest men on the planet are even richer: the endless growth of the millmillonarios In Xataka | Someone used AI to overcome an interview on Amazon. His success has made Google see his candidates face to face Image | Flikr (Techcrunch), Scale ai

Millions of people drink from the water that arrives from the snow of the K2. We have just discovered pollutants in them

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The K2 is the second highest peak on the planet after Everest and probably one of the most difficult and dangerous peaks to reach for climbers. It owes its name to the Karakórum mountain range, where it is located. It is located in a remote puppy area played between Pakistan and India, but its remoteness has not prevented pollution from reaching it. And with it the risk of thaw. Black carbon. A study by an international team of researchers has found black carbon traces in the Godwin-Austen glacier and on the surface of the K2. According to Explain the study responsible for the studythis pollutant can be an ice risk in a mountainous area that feeds a river responsible for supplying more than one billion people. Black carbon is presented as small carbon particles as a result of the incomplete combustion of some compounds. These particles are part of the volatile compounds known as particular matter and can affect our health and the environment. As explained by the team responsible for the study, being deposited in snow or on ice, black carbon can accelerate its melting. This may imply the loss of frozen mass, reducing the time that snow passes on the surface, they add. Taking samples. In its study, the team collected samples of superficial snow in fields 1 and 2 of the K2 between 2018 and 2019. Sampling was also carried out along the walls of two well -excavated wells in the snow layer on the glacier. The team performed an isotopic analysis of the snow layer to estimate when the snow began to accumulate. All this for, In the words of Nicolás González-SantacruzCo -author of the study, “Determining the moment of formation of the snow layer is essential to precisely interpret black carbon data.” The details of the work done were published In an article In the magazine Journal of glaciology. A seasonal snow. The analysis concluded that the snow of the glacier has a seasonal character, that is, that it accumulates between October and until the end of winter and then disappear completely between spring and summer. This fact allowed to know in detail when the different concentrations of black carbon were deposited. Looking for the source of pollution. The team analyzed the black carbon samples also to track the origin of this pollutant. They found that the accumulated carbon during the fall of 2018 had their main origin in the North Basin of the Indo River, while in the subsequent concentrations (winter 2018 and 2019), the influence of regions such as the Middle East, Asia Central and Eastern Europe, González-Santacruz added. The sum of several problems. We associate the thaw of glaciers and other icy areas of the world to climate change derived from high atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases. However, neither thaw is the only phenomenon attributable to this change nor global warming has to be the sole responsible for the thaw. Understanding the diversity of factors that are interconnected in the context of climate change is key to understanding the potential effects of this, both in terms of people and in what affects ecosystems. In Xataka | Snowing stations at the end of the century: the most pessimistic models show what could happen in our high mountain Image | Zacharie Grossen, CC by-SA 4.0

extract your own natural gas

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In the last two decades, China It has become in the largest importer of the world of natural gas (LNG). However, in a drastic turn of the event, the Asian giant will stop depending on the gas of others. This change will have consequences in the world market. Short. Large Chinese oil companies, such as Sinopec, CNOOC and Petrochina have put the focus on expanding their internal gas production, focusing on deeper perforations and the development of shale gas resources, such as have explained in Bloomberg. This new path responds to the deceleration of oil demand, the rise of electric vehicles and the growth of internal gas production, which would affect the projections of large international energy companies. New exploration in China. The three great Chinese oil companies are making significant investments in deep drilling, both on land and on the high seas. As has had access OilpriceThey are intensifying the exploitation of shale gas deposits, with notable advances in the Sichuan basin, and are also exploring deeper seas in search of new reserves. In the same medium it has been detailed that Petrochina He is drilling wells 10,000 meters deep to access gas and oil resources in complex rock formations. It will not be easy. This movement towards energy self -sufficiency raises several challenges, since the extraction of shale gas in China is between complex geological formations, which increases production costs. Nevertheless, as explained in Bloombergthe plans to obtain gas are already underway and they will not stop them. In check the global production. International companies such as Shell, Exxonmobil and Totalenergies had planned an increase in their LNG exports to China, waiting for the country to be the largest consumer. However, this change of plans by the Asian giant to produce more gas internally and depend less on imports will affect global supplies, altering the projections of large oil companies, According to Oilprice. And what will happen in Europe? The month of April has not begun very well in gas for Europe, since reserves have been left to zero, According to Bloomberg. However, the new change in gas consumption policies in China could be beneficial for the old continent, who needs to start fill their gas reserves. However, the situation remains uncertain. As Oilprice has pointed outalthough there would be more available gas, the competition for the LNG is still high, and logistics infrastructure to distribute it may not be completely adapted to these changes. This could affect Europe’s capacity to access that excess gas in time and lower prices. Forecasts. The projections indicate that, with the increase in internal production and the rise of electric vehicles, the need for LNG imports of China could decrease in the coming years. For this reason, there may be a drop in imports, which would affect the decisions of global gas producers. However, the current energy panorama is marking by Many geopolitical tensions They will affect oil. Recently, there has been an important change in the sector, with OPEC+, the United States and China involved in a complex situation. As has detailed the New York Timestariff policies and energy strategies are intertwining, which alters the flow of resources and causes greater uncertainty in crude oil markets, affecting the price of fuel worldwide. Image | Asian Development Bank (Flickr, CC BY-DC -nd 2.0) Xataka | In its effort to extract oil, China is beating records: it has drilled a well -deep well

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