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Irina Slav

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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.

Latest articles from Irina

  • Is Canadian LNG Too Expensive To Compete?

    Published 26 October 2020 | viewed 6,064 times

    British Columbia is one very pro-LNG province. Both main parties are firmly in favor of LNG projects, and both have made them a prominent point…

  • Oil Prices Fall As Libya Looks To Bring Back 1 Million Bpd

    Published 26 October 2020 | viewed 3,348 times

    Libya’s crude oil production could reach 800,000 bpd over the next two weeks and top 1 million barrels daily within a month now that the…

  • Cenovus Buys Husky To Create New Canadian Oil Giant

    Published 26 October 2020 | viewed 3,738 times

    Cenovus and Husky Energy have struck a deal to combine their businesses in an all-stock transaction worth US$17.92 billion (C$23.6 billion). The size of the…

  • Big Profits Are No Longer The Top Priority For Oil Investors

    Published 25 October 2020 | viewed 15,198 times

    For years, the oil industry drew in investors with sizable—and regular—returns. Even when oil prices fell, Big Oil found ways to keep paying dividends, even…

  • Iranian Tankers Hide In Iraqi Waters To Ship Oil Abroad

    Published 23 October 2020 | viewed 13,705 times

    Iranian tankers are hiding in Iraqi waters to do their ship-to-ship transfers of crude oil to avoid U.S. sanctions, the Wall Street Journal reports, citing…

  • Venezuela’s Oil Major Sees Oil At $35 Through 2021

    Published 23 October 2020 | viewed 5,435 times

    Venezuela’s state oil company has made a pessimistic estimate for next year’s oil prices, expecting to make just $35 per barrel for the crude it…

  • Could Oil Drillers Make Geothermal Energy Go Mainstream?

    Published 22 October 2020 | viewed 7,234 times

    With so much talk about offshore wind and utility-scale solar, it is easy to forget about one other abundant, emission-free energy source. Geothermal has garnered…

  • Exxon Expected To Announce North America Redundancies Soon

    Published 22 October 2020 | viewed 17,863 times

    Exxon is close to completing a workforce assessment for the United States and Canada, after which it will announce the number of people it needs…

  • The World’s Largest Oil Trader Just Sent LNG Prices Soaring

    Published 22 October 2020 | viewed 29,117 times

    Three trades for liquefied natural gas cargoes executed by commodity trading major Vitol made the company the talk of the LNG town as it pushed…

  • Big Oil Hamstrung In Tackling Methane Problem

    Published 21 October 2020 | viewed 2,470 times

    When the coronavirus first spread around the world, emissions-tracking organizations reported good news: the drop in industrial activity and oil and gas drilling had resulted…

  • China’s Pollution Effort Falls Short Of Expectations

    Published 21 October 2020 | viewed 1,802 times

    Despite ambitious efforts to reduce air pollution levels across China over the last five years, results have fallen short of expectations, Reuters reports, citing a…

  • Oil Prices Rebound On Small Crude Draw

    Published 21 October 2020 | viewed 8,895 times

    Crude oil prices rose today after the Energy Information Administration reported a crude oil inventory decline of 1 million barrels for the week to October…

  • Alberta Unimpressed By Canadian Plastics Ban

    Published 20 October 2020 | viewed 2,802 times

    Earlier this month, Canada’s federal government confirmed plans to ban several single-use plastic items by the end of next year as part of its efforts…

  • Alberta Gives Oil Industry Much-Needed Tax Break

    Published 20 October 2020 | viewed 4,357 times

    The Alberta provincial government has granted oil companies a three-year municipal property tax break to help them cope with the latest crisis, which hit before…

  • This Deal Could Create The Next Big Shale Giant

    Published 20 October 2020 | viewed 13,077 times

    Just a day after ConocoPhilips announced it will buy Concho Resources, another U.S. oil major was reported to be in talks to buy a fellow…

  • Offshore Oil & Gas Poised For A Major Rebound

    Published 19 October 2020 | viewed 30,907 times

    In a year marked by huge spending cuts across the oil and gas industry amid urgently revised budgets and slashed investments, some analysts are now…

  • ISIS Calls For Attacks On Saudi Oil Industry

    Published 19 October 2020 | viewed 53,532 times

    The Islamic State has called on its members to start targeting Saudi Arabia oil infrastructure as punishment for the Kingdom warming up to Israel. “Targets…

  • Judge Rules In Favor Of PDVSA In Citgo Bond Dispute

    Published 19 October 2020 | viewed 4,117 times

    A U.S. judge ruled that bonds issued by Venezuela’s PDVSA were “valid and enforceable”, putting a spoke in the wheels of Venezuelan opposition plans to…

  • Big Banks Could Lose Billions In The Global Energy Transition

    Published 18 October 2020 | viewed 8,652 times

    JP Morgan pledged to help clients align their business with Paris Agreement emission targets. HSBC announced up to a $1 trillion in green energy funding.…

  • Canada Government Invests In Mini Nuclear Reactors

    Published 16 October 2020 | viewed 10,950 times

    The federal Canadian government has allocated US$15.11 million (C$20 million) for investments in mini nuclear power plants as part of efforts to reduce the country's…

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