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Irina Slav

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  • Africa, Latin American Countries Have Massive Oil-Backed Debt To China

    Published 27 February 2020 | viewed 13,403 times

    African and Latin American countries have accumulated at least $152 billion in debt to Chinese banks, backed by oil and other mineral resources, a study…

  • Oil Product Demand Growth In Asia Crashes

    Published 27 February 2020 | viewed 10,047 times

    Oil product demand in Asia will grow by about 380,000 bpd this year, S&P Global Platts Analytics said this week. This is the lowest demand…

  • Aramco Begins Preparing For International Listing

    Published 27 February 2020 | viewed 8,775 times

    Aramco has reportedly started the preparation process for the international leg of its listing, which most expected to be years away. According to unnamed sources…

  • Former Saudi Energy Minister Al-Falih Returns As Investment Minister

    Published 26 February 2020 | viewed 6,262 times

    Khalid al-Falih, Saudi Arabia’s former Energy Minister has been appointed Investment Minister and will be tasked with securing funds for the Vision 2030 economic program…

  • Oil Prices Bounce Back On Bullish EIA Data

    Published 26 February 2020 | viewed 34,457 times

    Crude oil prices inched higher on Wednesday morning after the Energy Information Administration reported an inventory build of 500,000 barrels for the week to February…

  • Assailants Murder Venezuela Oil Tanker Captain

    Published 26 February 2020 | viewed 33,772 times

    Six armed men who boarded an oil tanker off the Venezuelan coast killed the captain and injured a sergeant from the coast guard that was…

  • No Financing And No Demand: Chinese Refiners Run Into Trouble

    Published 25 February 2020 | viewed 19,378 times

    International banks are suspending credit lines for some independent oil refiners worried about the growing risk of defaults across industries because of the coronavirus epidemic,…

  • Equinor Quits Oil Exploration In Great Australian Bight

    Published 25 February 2020 | viewed 7,882 times

    Norway’s Equinor has shelved an oil exploration project in the Great Australian Bight, becoming the third supermajor to give up on the Bight amid a…

  • Tesla To Soon Start Model Y Deliveries

    Published 25 February 2020 | viewed 10,917 times

    Tesla could start shipping off Model Y cars to its customers as soon as next month, Electrek reports, noting Tesla has started sending customers emails…

  • The Dark Side Of Hydropower

    Published 24 February 2020 | viewed 60,249 times

    Hydropower is the largest single source of renewable electricity in the world, dwarfing solar and wind. As such, it has established a positive reputation in…

  • Aramco To Invest $110 Billion In Huge Gas Field

    Published 24 February 2020 | viewed 39,794 times

    Aramco plans to invest $110 billion in the development of the Jafurah gas field that is estimated to hold some 200 trillion cu ft of…

  • Teck Cancels $20 Billion Frontier Oil Sands Project

    Published 24 February 2020 | viewed 15,195 times

    Teck Resources has withdrawn its application for a regulatory review of the Frontier oil sands project, the company said in a news release. “Investors and…

  • Libyan Oil Chairman Calls On U.S. To Help End Oil Blockade

    Published 24 February 2020 | viewed 10,962 times

    The United States should step in and help lift the blockade of Libyan oil ports that has decimated the country’s oil production, the chairman of…

  • Two Innovations That Could Make CO2 Fuel A Reality

    Published 23 February 2020 | viewed 20,324 times

    Carbon capture technology has been garnering more and more attention as one way to solve the world’s human-made emissions problem, but costs remain an obstacle.…

  • FERC Slams New York With Higher Renewable Energy Prices

    Published 21 February 2020 | viewed 14,805 times

    New Yorkers may have to pay more for electricity from renewable sources after the Federal Energy Regulatory Commissions issued a series of four orders that…

  • Oil Trading Giant Sees Oil Price Recovery Later This Year

    Published 21 February 2020 | viewed 29,269 times

    Commodity trading major Vitol said it expected oil prices to recover later this year once the effect of the coronavirus epidemic wanes, Bloomberg reported, citing…

  • Houthis Launch Attack On Saudi Arabia

    Published 21 February 2020 | viewed 14,962 times

    The Houthi rebels in Yemen launched a missile attack on Saudi Arabia early this morning but the missiles were intercepted by the Saudi defense system,…

  • The Two Most Important Factors In The EV Boom

    Published 20 February 2020 | viewed 9,997 times

    The ranks of batteries aiming to challenge the dominant lithium ion technology have been swelling rapidly in the past few years are researchers and businesses…

  • Venezuela Declares An Energy Emergency

    Published 20 February 2020 | viewed 94,576 times

    Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro has declared emergency for the country’s oil industry, calling for measures to ensure Venezuela’s energy security, Sputnik reports, quoting a tweet…

  • Oil Rallies On Small Crude Inventory Build

    Published 20 February 2020 | viewed 22,280 times

    As the effect of the coronavirus epidemic begins to recede and oil prices start to recover, the Energy Information Administration reported a crude oil inventory…

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