Irina Slav

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• The World's Most Exiting Oil Hedge Nears Completion

  Published 24 October 2019 | viewed 9,539 times

  Despite challenges, Mexico is close to completing its notorious oil hedge, unnamed sources told Reuters, adding that the government had used the services of Goldman…

• Elon Musk Bullish On Tesla’s Energy Business

  Published 24 October 2019 | viewed 5,678 times

  Tesla’s energy business could end up being bigger than its core business of making electric cars, CEO Elon Musk said during the presentation of the…

• Elon Musk’s Eight Most Outrageous Ideas

  Published 23 October 2019 | viewed 31,133 times

  He’s rumored to have toyed with creating a zombie apocalypse just to promote his new flamethrowers, to have suggested solidarity with a non-existent ‘Flat Earth…

• Oil Prices Climb As EIA Reports Surprise Inventory Draw

  Published 23 October 2019 | viewed 50,724 times

  A day after the American Petroleum Institute reported yet another estimated weekly build in U.S. oil inventories, the Energy Information Administration rejected it, reporting a…

• Big Oil Hit Hard By Supreme Court Rejection

  Published 23 October 2019 | viewed 46,836 times

  The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected requests by a number of oil companies to block three lawsuits launched against them by state and local governments…

• Russian Oil Boss Speaks Out Against OPEC+ Cuts

  Published 23 October 2019 | viewed 10,717 times

  Lukoil’s chief executive Vagit Alekperov has joined Rosneft’s Igor Sechin in voicing his opposition to another extension of the OPEC+ oil production cut agreement, Reuters…

• U.S. Oil Major Granted Sanctions Waiver For Venezuela

  Published 22 October 2019 | viewed 11,521 times

  The U.S. government granted Chevron another three-month extension to a sanction waiver that allowed the supermajor to continue doing business in Venezuela, quenching concerns it…

• Rescue Operation: 115 Oil Workers Airlifted From Platform

  Published 22 October 2019 | viewed 12,335 times

  More than 100 workers were airlifted from the Thistle oil platform in the North Sea after an unspecified incident that followed a subsea inspection at…

• Two Dead Following ISIS Attack On Iraqi Oil Field

  Published 22 October 2019 | viewed 24,137 times

  Islamic State militants attacked checkpoints at a group of oil fields in northern Iraq, killing two members of the security force deployed there and injuring…

• IEA Predicts Spectacular Solar Growth By 2024

  Published 21 October 2019 | viewed 7,951 times

  The International Energy Agency expects to see “spectacular” growth in new solar power capacity additions in the period to 2024, which will highlight overall strong…

• The Middle East Oil Alliance Of The Year

  Published 21 October 2019 | viewed 8,102 times

  Kuwait and Saudi Arabia are still negotiating the restart of oil production at jointly owned fields in the so-called Neutral Zone between the two countries,…

• Ecuadorian Oil Is Back Online

  Published 21 October 2019 | viewed 8,174 times

  Ecuador has restarted crude oil exports after massive protests caused the country’s oil industry to more or less grind to a halt.  “All exports that…

• Russia Replacing Oil Workers With Robots

  Published 21 October 2019 | viewed 8,486 times

  In the not too distant future, oil workers in Russia could be supervised by an artificial intelligence program dubbed Cyclops. Sputnik reports that the program,…

• Oil Markets At Stake As The Syria Debate Rages On

  Published 20 October 2019 | viewed 17,555 times

  The U.S. pullout from Syria sparked strong—and opposing—reactions, as a move of that magnitude was bound to do. Trump bashers bashed Trump for quitting and…

• Why Powering A City With Bicycles Is Impossible

  Published 20 October 2019 | viewed 16,097 times

  One of the iconic European films of the 1990s, Emir Kusturica’s “Underground”, features a scene where a character pedals a stationary bicycle to produce electricity.…

• Protests Force Norway To Scrap Ambitious Wind Project

  Published 18 October 2019 | viewed 11,969 times

  Public opposition has forced the Norwegian government to scrap plans for large-scale onshore wind power development, Recharge News reports. The outlet quoted a statement from…

• Why Did Rick Perry Resign?

  Published 18 October 2019 | viewed 18,272 times

  President Donald Trump confirmed Energy Secretary Rick Perry is stepping down, a couple of weeks after reports emerged that Perry was preparing for the move.…

• World’s Largest IPO Delayed Once Again

  Published 18 October 2019 | viewed 14,540 times

  Just days after people close to the preparations for Aramco’s IPO said Riyadh was due to official greenlight the deal this week, other sources told…

• Rick Perry Praises The Benefits Of U.S. LNG

  Published 17 October 2019 | viewed 8,183 times

  The LNG boom in the United States is helping households pay less for electricity, Energy Secretary Rick Perry told Fox News. “We’re driving down the cost of…

• State Of Emergency: Vital Oil Pipeline Shuttered By Snow Storms

  Published 17 October 2019 | viewed 30,980 times

  TC Energy, formerly known as TransCanada, has declared force majeure on the Keystone oil pipeline after a snow storm in Manitoba disrupted operations, Reuters reports,…