Jun Zhong
Co-founder of Winda Inc. and editor of Winda Beacon. He answers for what Beacon publishes, holds or drops editions, and signs off corrections.
Jun co-founded Winda, which offers AI applications, engineering services and field hardware for oil and gas assets, and started Beacon in 2026 to track what changes for the assets Winda's customers run.
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- FactBrief · Beacon brief: Saturday, October 24, 2026
- FactNews item · Washington puts Defense Production Act money behind refining: up to $150 million to restart and expand US refineries, recipients not yet named
- FactBrief · Beacon brief: Friday, October 23, 2026
- FactNews item · European Parliament votes to push EU methane import rules to 2031, three times the delay the Commission proposed
- FactBrief · Beacon brief: Thursday, October 22, 2026
- FactNews item · Debris from an intercepted drone kills two contract workers at Aramco's 1 million b/d Shaybah oilfield; Saudi Arabia says output is unaffected
- FactBrief · Beacon brief: Wednesday, October 21, 2026
- FactNews item · Phillips 66 locks out about 385 union workers at Bayway, the East Coast's largest refinery, and runs it on salaried staff
- FactTopic · LNG terminal outages, export disruptions and FIDs
- FactTopic · Methane leak detection and emissions rules
- FactTopic · Pipeline integrity news: ruptures, leaks and shutdowns
- FactTopic · Refinery outages, fires and restarts
- FactTopic · Pipeline safety enforcement actions and rulemakings
- FactTopic · Offshore platform incidents and oil field shutdowns
- FactBrief · Beacon brief: Tuesday, October 20, 2026
- FactNews item · Houthis claim strikes on Aramco's Yanbu site and the Shaybah oilfield; Saudi Arabia has not confirmed any damage
- FactBrief · Beacon brief: Monday, October 19, 2026
- FactNews item · Trump waives the Graham Act's Russia sanctions and 100% tariffs on buyers of Russian oil two days before they were due to apply
- FactBrief · Beacon brief: Saturday, October 17, 2026
- FactNews item · IEA commits just over 20 million barrels of diesel, well short of the 50 million discussed, as the US Energy Department seeks bids to lend up to 17 million barrels of SPR crude
- FactBrief · Beacon brief: Friday, October 16, 2026
- FactNews item · Drone strike sets Rosneft's Ryazan refinery on fire as Kyiv ends a three-day pause in refinery attacks after the US 'energy ceasefire'
- FactBrief · Beacon brief: Thursday, October 15, 2026
- FactNews item · Missile hits Saudi Aramco's Dhahran headquarters tower, home to its operations centre; ministry reports a limited fire, sources describe extensive damage
- FactBrief · Beacon brief: Wednesday, October 14, 2026
- FactNews item · Houthis name Aramco's Dhahran headquarters and a Riyadh refinery as targets after Saudi coalition strikes a Sanaa fuel depot
- FactBrief · Beacon brief: Tuesday, October 13, 2026
- FactNews item · Six ships reported struck around Hormuz in one day as at least 10 VLCCs bound for Fujairah stop or turn back
- FactBrief · Beacon brief: Monday, October 12, 2026
- FactNews item · US licenses trade in Russian diesel through April 2027 as Moscow reopens exports for 500,000 tons
- FactBrief · Beacon brief: Saturday, October 10, 2026
- FactNews item · Gulf of Mexico shut-ins reach 71.5 percent of oil output as Isaias strengthens to Category 3 ahead of Florida Panhandle landfall
- FactBrief · Beacon brief: Friday, October 9, 2026
- FactNews item · Hurricane Isaias takes 63 percent of Gulf of Mexico oil output offline as evacuated platforms jump from 8 to 121 in a day
- FactBrief · Beacon brief: Thursday, October 8, 2026
- FactNews item · Isaias forms in the Gulf with a quarter of offshore oil output already shut in and a hurricane forecast over producing areas
- FactBrief · Beacon brief: Wednesday, October 7, 2026
- FactNews item · Saudi energy minister puts East-West pipeline flows at 5.8 million b/d, in the first official figure since the Houthi claim at Khurais
- FactBrief · Beacon brief: Tuesday, October 6, 2026
- FactNews item · Houthis claim strike on East-West pipeline pump station at Khurais; an AFP source says flows stopped, sources for Bloomberg and Reuters say oil kept moving
- FactBrief · Beacon brief: Monday, October 5, 2026
- FactNews item · G7 agrees to release up to 100 million barrels of crude and diesel over four months, but leaves open how much is new beyond March's 400 million barrel pact
- FactBrief · Beacon brief: Saturday, October 3, 2026
- FactNews item · Aramco pumps close to 6 million barrels a day through the East-West pipeline, over 80 percent of capacity, three weeks after drone strikes shut it
- FactBrief · Beacon brief: Friday, October 2, 2026
- FactNews item · ConocoPhillips weighs sale of its Norway business and the Teesside crude terminal after an unsolicited offer; analysts put the package near $7 billion
- FactBrief · Beacon brief: Thursday, October 1, 2026
- FactNews item · High-pressure separator ruptures in MRPL's coker hydrotreater at Mangaluru: one worker dead, nine injured, and three fuel export tenders withdrawn at a refinery planned to run above nameplate
- FactBrief · Beacon brief: Wednesday, September 30, 2026
- FactNews item · LNG Canada partners take FID on Phase 2: two more trains at Kitimat for 28 million tonnes a year, fed by a Coastal GasLink expansion built on compression, not new pipe
- FactBrief · Beacon brief: Tuesday, September 29, 2026
- FactNews item · Saudi East-West line back to about 3.5 million barrels a day, half its capacity, as Gulf crude exports hit a war-time high
- FactBrief · Beacon brief: Monday, September 28, 2026
- FactNews item · Trump rejects Iran's seven-day Hormuz plan as escorted crude flows out of the Gulf climb to about 13 million barrels a day
- FactBrief · Beacon brief: Saturday, September 26, 2026
- FactNews item · Iran puts a seven-day clock on Hormuz: reopen the strait and restart talks, if Washington unfreezes $12 billion and lifts the blockade
- FactBrief · Beacon brief: Friday, September 25, 2026
- FactNews item · The workaround is now the target: six Houthi ballistic missiles intercepted over Taif and Yanbu, the port Aramco needs while Hormuz stays contested
- FactBrief · Beacon brief: Thursday, September 24, 2026
- FactNews item · Libya's NOC is losing both ends of the Sharara system: Valve No. 7 stays shut, the Zawiya refinery gates are blocked, and force majeure is being drafted
- FactBrief · Beacon brief: Wednesday, September 23, 2026
- FactNews item · The Hormuz bypass is pumping again, slowly: Aramco restarts the East-West line nine days after the strikes, and crude has already priced the full four million barrels
- FactBrief · Beacon brief: Tuesday, September 22, 2026
- FactNews item · Crude closes below $100 on the day a projectile hits a tanker entering Hormuz: the market is pricing Tuesday's UN meeting, not the water
- FactBrief · Beacon brief: Monday, September 21, 2026
- FactNews item · Moscow's own refinery is burning: the largest drone attack on the capital reaches the plant that supplies 40 percent of its fuel
- FactBrief · Beacon brief: Saturday, September 19, 2026
- FactNews item · Iran starts shooting at the traffic it says it will tax: two tankers hit in a day, and the screen barely moves
- FactBrief · Beacon brief: Friday, September 18, 2026
- FactNews item · One exit reopens as the other narrows: restart signals pull crude lower while the Houthis press toward Bab el-Mandeb, and nobody agrees how much oil is moving
- FactBrief · Beacon brief: Thursday, September 17, 2026
- FactNews item · The bypass runs back through the strait: Aramco shuttles crude across Hormuz for transfer off Sohar as Riyadh targets half the pipeline within days
- FactBrief · Beacon brief: Wednesday, September 16, 2026
- FactNews item · The mine question arrives in Hormuz: Iran says the El Gaia struck naval mines, CENTCOM says Iran struck the tanker again
- FactBrief · Beacon brief: Tuesday, September 15, 2026
- FactNews item · Both exits narrow at once: Salalah talks collapse as damage imagery puts the East-West repair in the weeks column
- FactBrief · Beacon brief: Monday, September 14, 2026
- FactNews item · Houthi control of Yemen's Red Sea coast closes in on Saudi Arabia's last working export route
- FactBrief · Beacon brief: Saturday, September 12, 2026
- FactNews item · Saudi Arabia shuts the East-West pipeline, its only route around Hormuz, after strikes on pump stations
- FactBrief · Beacon brief: Friday, September 11, 2026
- FactNews item · Saudi output drops to 6.24 million b/d, a 36-year low, and the war premium becomes a measured supply loss
- FactBrief · Beacon brief: Thursday, September 10, 2026
- FactNews item · US destroys five Iranian tankers, Iran strikes back across the Gulf, and Brent clears $100
- FactBrief · Beacon brief: Wednesday, September 9, 2026
- FactNews item · Houthi missiles and drones halt operations at Saudi energy facilities; Brent touches $98
- FactBrief · Beacon brief: Tuesday, September 8, 2026
- FactNews item · Line 5 misses its window: Enbridge now builds a 1,500-foot bypass, restart pushed to September 12
- FactBrief · Beacon brief: Monday, September 7, 2026
- FactNews item · Line 5's restart window opens with 140 barrels left in the excavation
- FactBrief · Beacon brief: Friday, September 4, 2026
- FactNews item · Line 5 restart slips to September 6-8 as crews switch from flaring to compressed air
- FactBrief · Beacon brief: Thursday, September 3, 2026
- FactNews item · Day nine on Line 5: the flare is still running and the state still cannot get on site
- FactBrief · Beacon brief: Wednesday, September 2, 2026
- FactNews item · Three passes, one corridor: the Permian methane plume that keeps returning