  Minijet production in hadronic and nuclear collisions through a BFKL pomeron
ladder is studied for the energies of the future LHC heavy-ion collisions. We
use unintegrated gluon densities compatible with the small-$x$ increase of
parton distributions observed at HERA. We show that at LHC energies the BFKL
minijet and transverse energy production is at most of the same order of
magnitude as that in the collinear factorization approach.
