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Irina Slav

Irina is a writer for Oilprice.com with over a decade of experience writing on the oil and gas industry.

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    Published 27 January 2021 | viewed 4,116 times

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    Published 26 January 2021 | viewed 16,168 times

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    Published 25 January 2021 | viewed 33,081 times

    When earlier this month Saudi Arabia served “a wonderful surprise” to oil markets in the words of its energy minister, oil prices jumped up. After…

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    Published 25 January 2021 | viewed 4,600 times

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  • Iraq Slashes Oil Output To Compensate For Overproduction

    Published 25 January 2021 | viewed 4,082 times

    Iraq will pump less oil this month and next to make up for excess production last year, the deputy chief of SOMO, the oil marketing…

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    Published 22 January 2021 | viewed 3,872 times

    The Premier of Alberta has called on the Canadian federal government to retaliate against the incoming U.S. administration after President Joe Biden said he would…

  • Iran Begins Boosting Oil Production

    Published 22 January 2021 | viewed 10,923 times

    Iran has started ramping up its crude oil production eyeing a return to pre-sanction levels in a month or two, Deputy Oil Minister Amir Hossein…

  • Bearish EIA Inventory Report Sends Oil Prices Lower

    Published 22 January 2021 | viewed 7,252 times

    Crude oil prices fell further today after the Energy Information Administration reported a crude oil inventory build of 4.4 million barrels for the week to…

  • China Is Struggling To Keep Up With Electricity Demand

    Published 21 January 2021 | viewed 5,718 times

    The cold spell that left Asian countries scrambling to buy enough natural gas for heating and electricity generation earlier this month made headlines and spurred…

  • Can Shale Resist The Lure Of Another Output Surge?

    Published 20 January 2021 | viewed 16,215 times

    U.S. shale changed global oil markets. It shook the foundations of OPEC as the one single swing producer group. And last year, it crumbled under…

  • SpaceX To Repurpose Oil Rigs For Launch Pads

    Published 20 January 2021 | viewed 6,379 times

    SpaceX plans to use two deepwater oil rigs as offshore floating spaceports that the company will likely use for the Starship rockets it is developing.…

  • India Unhappy With OPEC+ Oil Production Cuts

    Published 20 January 2021 | viewed 11,117 times

    India, one of the world’s top oil consumers, has slammed OPEC for creating confusion with its latest decisions regarding oil supply, with many importers seeing…

  • Oil Majors Win Big As LNG Prices Soar

    Published 19 January 2021 | viewed 14,897 times

    Shell turned the lights back on at its Prelude offshore LNG facility just as Asia was being frozen by a cold spell that sent prices…

  • IEA Slashes Oil Demand Outlook For 2021

    Published 19 January 2021 | viewed 6,875 times

    The International Energy Agency cut its crude oil demand recovery outlook for this year by 300,000 bpd to 5.5 million bpd in its latest Oil…

  • Investors Growing More Bullish On Oil

    Published 19 January 2021 | viewed 8,479 times

    Investors are becoming increasingly bullish on crude oil, with trading activity on the most popular crude and fuels contracts off to a strong start of…

  • Why The Green Bond Market Is So Popular In 2021

    Published 18 January 2021 | viewed 2,123 times

    Green bond issuance last year hit a record—the pandemic couldn’t stop the surge in investor appetite for anything related to renewable energy and environmental responsibility.…

  • Developer: Keystone XL Pipeline Could Be Emission-Free

    Published 18 January 2021 | viewed 8,145 times

    The developer of the controversial Keystone XL oil pipeline project, TC Energy Corp., is preparing to pledge a number of changes as it seeks the…

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