Irina Slav

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• The Sky Is The Limit For Clean Energy Subsidies In Europe

  Published 02 August 2020 | viewed 18,098 times

  China may have saddled itself with as much as $42 billion in unpaid renewable energy subsidies, but it pales in comparison to the enormous amount…

• Rosneft Strikes Oil At New Field In Siberia

  Published 31 July 2020 | viewed 12,006 times

  Rosneft has discovered oil in a new field in Western Siberia, with reserves estimated at 20 million tons of crude oil (146.6 million barrels) and…

• What’s Holding Geothermal Energy Back?

  Published 30 July 2020 | viewed 22,883 times

  It’s abundant, and it’s emissions-free: the heat from the earth’s mantle that reaches well into the crust and gives deep drillers a headache occasionally is…

• The World Is Facing A Solar Panel Waste Problem

  Published 30 July 2020 | viewed 72,695 times

  Solar panel installations hit a total 629 GW last year--an increase of 12 percent from 2018. It was also a lot—really a lot—of panels. And in a…

• Canadian Oil Drilling Forecast Gets Slashed Again

  Published 30 July 2020 | viewed 11,339 times

  Some 2,800 new wells will be drilled in Canada this year, according to the Petroleum Services Association of the country. This is the third downward…

• Apache, Total Make New Major Oil Discovery Offshore Suriname

  Published 30 July 2020 | viewed 25,339 times

  French Total and Apache Corp have made a new, major oil discovery in the offshore Block 58 in Suriname, the two companies said. “We are…

• Is The UK’s Ambitious Plan For 30 Million EVs Feasible?

  Published 29 July 2020 | viewed 6,536 times

  Seven percent - that's the portion of electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids as a percentage of total sales as of the first quarter of this…

• Saudi Arabia Books $29-Bln Deficit In Q2

  Published 29 July 2020 | viewed 16,431 times

  Saudi Arabia booked a deficit of $29 billion for the second quarter of the year because of the continued slump in oil prices and oil…

• Oil Rallies On Biggest Crude Inventory Draw Since 2019

  Published 29 July 2020 | viewed 37,348 times

  U.S. crude oil inventories shed an impressive 10.6 million barrels in the week to July 24, the Energy Information Administration reported today. This compares with…

• Oil Buyers Profit From A Wave Of Cheap Fuel

  Published 28 July 2020 | viewed 12,815 times

  The downstream industry has been affected particularly severely by the unique combination of events that unfolded this year. On the one hand, the coronavirus pandemic…

• Billionaire Wildcatter Plans Midland Oil Production Expansion

  Published 28 July 2020 | viewed 44,606 times

  Texas, Midland-based driller Endeavor Energy Resources has applied for permits for 11 new wells, the Houston Chronicle’s Sergio Chapa reports, adding that the permit applications…

• Hyundai Goes All In On EVs

  Published 28 July 2020 | viewed 16,881 times

  South Korea's Hyundai will build two production lines for electric vehicles in 2021 and 2024 to boost its presence in the plug-in EV market, Reuters…

• Russia Overtakes U.S. In LNG Exports To China

  Published 27 July 2020 | viewed 17,081 times

  Russia exported more LNG to China in June than the United States did, at 396,000 tons versus 340,000 tons, Russia’s Sputnik reports, citing data first quoted…

• Trump Heads To Texas To Discuss U.S. Energy Dominance

  Published 27 July 2020 | viewed 12,887 times

  President Donald Trump is visiting Texas this week, to raise money for the Republican Party and discuss the country’s energy-dominance agenda with the local oil industry. Trump’s…

• This Oil Crisis Will Completely Transform The Industry

  Published 26 July 2020 | viewed 29,949 times

  When JP Morgan's EMEA head of oil and gas research said last month that this crisis was fundamentally no different from previous crises, he was…

• The Electric Truck Race Is Heating Up

  Published 25 July 2020 | viewed 20,786 times

  When a company called Nikola debuted on the stock market last month, its stock soared more than 100 percent in just the first few days of trading.…

• Russian Gas Giant Gazprom To Start Producing Clean Hydrogen

  Published 24 July 2020 | viewed 28,466 times

  Russia’s gas giant Gazprom will start producing “clean”, that is, zero-emission, hydrogen beginning in 2024 under a new government plan to develop a hydrogen economy.…

• Chinese Oil Giants Sell $56 Billion Worth Of Pipelines

  Published 24 July 2020 | viewed 15,148 times

  Chinese state-owned oil and gas majors have sold pipeline networks worth a total $56 billion as part of a government plan to restructure the nation's…

• Oil Traders Discount Crude As Chinese Demand Weakens

  Published 24 July 2020 | viewed 19,853 times

  Oil producers such as Iraq, Russia, and the UAE are lowering their crude oil prices to make it salable as demand from Asian buyers remains…

• World’s Largest Economies Are Still Spending Big On Oil & Gas

  Published 23 July 2020 | viewed 28,971 times

  Spending on oil and gas, and coal is still higher among members of G20 than spending on renewable energy, a data update from the Energy…