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Irina Slav

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  • China Ramps Up U.S. Crude Oil Imports As Elections Near

    Published 22 September 2020 | viewed 11,368 times

    China has been buying a lot of U.S. crude oil lately, perhaps in a belated attempt to fulfill some of the energy import quotas agreed…

  • Chinese Oil Giant Could Buy Exxon's North Sea Assets

    Published 22 September 2020 | viewed 16,147 times

    Sinopec and a private equity-backed company are among some half a dozen candidates to acquire Exxon’s North Sea assets that the supermajor put up for…

  • China Promises To Do More To Tackle Climate Change

    Published 22 September 2020 | viewed 1,917 times

    China is ready to do more to tackle climate change, the country’s chief climate advisor said, as quoted by Reuters, and plans to deliver this…

  • The Debt Crisis Is Mounting For Oil Economies

    Published 21 September 2020 | viewed 21,074 times

    Dubai. Abu Dhabi. Bahrain. And, of course, Saudi Arabia. The two emirates this year issued debt for the first time in years. So did Bahrain.…

  • Canadian Miner Wants To Put Date On Sale Of Citgo Parent Company

    Published 21 September 2020 | viewed 4,233 times

    Crystallex, the Canadian mining company that years ago won a $1.4-billion arbitration against Venezuela’s PDVSA has urged a district judge to set a date for…

  • Oil Prices Slide As Libya Restarts Production

    Published 21 September 2020 | viewed 13,659 times

    Libya’s National Oil Corporation will restart production from certain fields and some exports of crude oil, the company said, as quoted by local media, adding…

  • LNG Powered Shipping Fleet Could Double This Decade

    Published 20 September 2020 | viewed 5,633 times

    The world’s first Very Large Containership fueled by LNG left the shipyard of Hyundai Samho Heavy Industries earlier this month to be delivered to Singapore’s…

  • Russian Oil Minister: Global Oil Inventories Are In Decline

    Published 18 September 2020 | viewed 8,126 times

    Global inventories of crude oil declined by 45 million barrels in August after a 34-million-barrel reduction in July, Russia’s Energy Minister Alexander Novak said in…

  • Oversupply Adds To Grim Oil Demand Outlook

    Published 17 September 2020 | viewed 13,611 times

    OPEC and the International Energy Agency delivered bad news for the oil market this week. Both authorities revised their oil demand forecasts for this year,…

  • Dakota Access Pipeline To Continue Operating Until End-2020

    Published 17 September 2020 | viewed 6,983 times

    The Dakota Access oil pipeline will continue operating at least until the end of the year when a federal court will be ready to rule…

  • OPEC Warns That Second Wave Of COVID Will Derail Demand Recovery

    Published 17 September 2020 | viewed 7,207 times

    A resurgence in Covid-19 cases in some countries could further dampen oil demand and interfere with a decline in oil inventories, Reuters has reported, citing…

  • Oil Tanker Industry Is In An Ocean Of Trouble

    Published 16 September 2020 | viewed 23,463 times

    There has been more than enough written about the woes of various segments of the oil industry and related industries so far this year. But…

  • Oil Rises After EIA Confirms Crude Inventory Draw

    Published 16 September 2020 | viewed 20,166 times

    Crude oil prices inched up further today after the Energy Information Administration reported a crude oil inventory draw of 4.4 million barrels for the week…

  • Venezuela Prepares To Boost Oil Production With Iranian Help

    Published 16 September 2020 | viewed 7,540 times

    Venezuela is preparing to ramp up its crude oil production using diluents imported from Iran, Reuters reports, citing unnamed sources and company documents. State-owned oil…

  • Why GM’s Wireless Battery Could Be A Gamechanger

    Published 15 September 2020 | viewed 24,540 times

    Batteries are a hot area of research, and it has only been getting hotter as the EV space begins to fill up with companies eager…

  • The Latest Threat For China’s Natural Gas Demand

    Published 15 September 2020 | viewed 6,648 times

    A drive to cut electricity prices for end-users has prompted Beijing to reduce gas-fired power plant tariffs, which has threatened the survival of many of…

  • U.S. Shale Production Continues To Decline

    Published 15 September 2020 | viewed 15,869 times

    Crude oil production in the U.S. shale patch is set to decline by 68,000 bpd next month, with every play registering declines in output except…

  • Big Tech Still Loves The Oil Business

    Published 14 September 2020 | viewed 7,734 times

    When Google earlier this year announced that it would stop making AI products for the oil and gas industry, prompted by a revelatory report by…

  • BP: Oil Demand Growth is Dead

    Published 14 September 2020 | viewed 22,338 times

    The world is past the era of growing crude oil demand, BP said in its annual energy outlook report, which was released today. The message…

  • Oil Prices Fall As Libyan General Pledges To Reopen Ports

    Published 14 September 2020 | viewed 5,078 times

    Libyan strongman General Khalifa Haftar has pledged to reopen the country’s oil ports this weekend, the U.S. embassy in the North African country said in…

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