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Irina Slav

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    Published 09 June 2021 | viewed 21,296 times

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    An oil tanker loaded with about a million barrels of crude has been sitting by the Yemeni coast since 2015. The UN has repeatedly called…

  • China’s Oil Imports To Drop After Refinery Margins Near $0

    Published 08 June 2021 | viewed 14,361 times

    Crude oil imports to China could fall by some 3 percent as a result of a government effort to reduce the output of fuels amid…

  • OPEC Lost $1 Trillion In The 2015 Oil Price Crash

    Published 08 June 2021 | viewed 3,029 times

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    Published 07 June 2021 | viewed 6,764 times

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    Published 07 June 2021 | viewed 11,233 times

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  • WTI Price Breaks $70 For First Time Since 2018

    Published 07 June 2021 | viewed 11,005 times

    West Texas Intermediate hit the highest since 2018 at the end of last week amid an increasingly favorable demand outlook. The U.S. benchmark topped $70…

  • Could Gamma-Ray Bursts Give Us Unlimited Energy?

    Published 06 June 2021 | viewed 9,970 times

    Gamma-ray bursts are the most powerful, brightest explosions in the universe. They last only seconds but release immense amounts of energy—as much, in fact, as…

  • Peak Oil Demand May Be Ten Years Away

    Published 04 June 2021 | viewed 6,864 times

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  • Uganda Picks Four Firms For New Oil Exploration Round

    Published 04 June 2021 | viewed 9,837 times

    Uganda has shortlisted four companies for an exploration round following its second oil exploration tender ever. The tender involved five oil blocks along Uganda’s border…

  • U.S. Cities And States Clash Over Natural Gas

    Published 03 June 2021 | viewed 6,401 times

    It all began in California. In 2019, the city of Berkeley enacted the first city-wide ban on new natural gas hookups in residential buildings. The…

  • EIA Inventory Report Sends Oil Higher

    Published 03 June 2021 | viewed 7,901 times

    Crude oil inventories in the United States shed 5.1 million barrels in the week to May 28, the Energy Information Administration reported today, adding inventories…

  • Activist Investor Wins Third Exxon Board Seat

    Published 03 June 2021 | viewed 2,868 times

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  • IEA: Global Energy Investment To Rise To $1.9 Trillion In 2021

    Published 02 June 2021 | viewed 2,144 times

    Global energy investment this year is seen expanding by 10 percent from 2020 to $1.9 trillion, the International Energy Agency said in its World Energy…

  • Oil Rises On OPEC Optimism

    Published 02 June 2021 | viewed 8,162 times

    Crude oil prices strengthened further this week after OPEC+ signaled its growing optimism about the balance between demand and supply, and confirmed that it planned…

  • Can Iceland Become The World’s First Green Hydrogen Economy?

    Published 01 June 2021 | viewed 7,355 times

    If there is one thing everyone knows about the tiny northern nation of Iceland, it is that it has plentiful geothermal resources. Europe's northernmost independent…

  • Exxon Quits Deepwater Oil Project In Ghana

    Published 01 June 2021 | viewed 8,887 times

    Exxon is leaving a deepwater prospect in Ghana after seismic work failed to produce good enough results. Bloomberg reports that the supermajor relinquished its whole…

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    Published 01 June 2021 | viewed 11,325 times

    Nigeria’s crude oil export revenues slumped by as much as 98 percent from March to April this year because of movements in the price of…

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