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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

  • Canadian Rig Count Slumps At Year-End

    Published 31 December 2018 | viewed 13,886 times

    Canada’s drilling rig count fell by 61 rigs in the last week of December from a week earlier, with the annual decline at 66 rigs,…

  • Oil Set For First Annual Drop In Three Years

    Published 31 December 2018 | viewed 15,529 times

    Despite a slight recovery in oil prices on the last day of 2018, benchmarks are set for their first overall annual decline since 2015, Reuters…

  • This Supermajor Is Leading The Energy Sector

    Published 30 December 2018 | viewed 55,713 times

    ConocoPhillips is the best-performing energy stock on the S&P 500 Energy Index this year. The news is all the more impressive because it is the…

  • EIA Inventory Report Stops Price Slide

    Published 28 December 2018 | viewed 24,052 times

    A day after the American Petroleum Institute pressured already stressed oil prices further with an unexpected inventory build, the Energy Information Administration reported instead that…

  • Canada Is Producing More Oil Than It Can Handle

    Published 28 December 2018 | viewed 23,850 times

    Western Canada is producing 365,000 bpd more crude oil that current pipeline capacity can handle, a new report from the National Energy Board has revealed.…

  • Exxon’s Drilling Offshore Guyana Uninterrupted

    Published 27 December 2018 | viewed 10,097 times

    Exxon is still drilling offshore Guyana despite a run-in with the Venezuelan navy last weekend, the company said, as quoted by Reuters. Initial reports from…

  • Cold Spell Boosts Asian LNG Imports

    Published 27 December 2018 | viewed 9,355 times

    Cold weather and China’s consistent gasification efforts pushed liquefied natural gas imports into Northeastern Asia to a record-high, Reuters reports, citing data from its Refinitiv…

  • Shell Doubles Renewables Investment

    Published 26 December 2018 | viewed 17,267 times

    Shell plans to increase the annual amount of money it invests in renewable energy to US$4 billion, the supermajor’s head of gas and new energy,…

  • Oil Stabilizes At $50 After Christmas Crash

    Published 26 December 2018 | viewed 25,011 times

    Crude oil prices rose on Boxing Day after an extensive decline that saw West Texas Intermediate creep close to US$40 and Brent briefly fall below…

  • OPEC Prepared To Call ‘Extraordinary Meeting’ As Oil Falls

    Published 24 December 2018 | viewed 125,090 times

    Just a couple of weeks after OPEC and its partners agreed to implement another round of production cuts, the cartel is ready to extend these…

  • ExxonMobil Faces Off With Venezuela’s Navy

    Published 24 December 2018 | viewed 25,418 times

    Exxon has suspended exploration activities in the western part of the Stabroek block offshore Guyana after the Venezuelan Navy intercepted this weekend two exploratory vessels…

  • The Future Of Artificial Intelligence In Oil & Gas

    Published 22 December 2018 | viewed 56,064 times

    After a slow start, the oil and gas industry seems to be eager to adopt all sorts of digital technology as they help companies keep…

  • UBS: Expect $80 Brent Next Year

    Published 21 December 2018 | viewed 45,527 times

    Unlike some investment banks that were quick to revise down their forecast for crude oil benchmarks next year, Swiss UBS is rather bullish: its head…

  • Australia Expects Higher LNG Exports Next Year

    Published 21 December 2018 | viewed 9,893 times

    Australia will likely export more liquefied natural gas in the next financial year—to end-June 2019—after the start of production of three more large-scale facilities offshore…

  • Chinese Refiners Aren’t Buying U.S. Crude

    Published 21 December 2018 | viewed 18,698 times

    Chinese refiners are not buying more U.S. oil despite the three-month truce agreed by Presidents Trump and Xi last month, Reuters reports, citing cargo loading…

  • India Oil Imports Take 11% Hit In November

    Published 21 December 2018 | viewed 11,999 times

    India’s crude oil imports last month totaled 4.2 million tons daily, or 17 million tons for the whole period, which was 11.4 percent lower than…

  • A Shocking Amount Of Crucial U.S. Pipelines Still Lack Cybersecurity

    Published 20 December 2018 | viewed 8,211 times

    U.S. pipeline infrastructure is more vulnerable to cyberattacks than desirable because of insufficient oversight in the cybersecurity department, a report commissioned by two members of…

  • Saudis Announce Highest-Ever Budget Amid Price Slump

    Published 20 December 2018 | viewed 17,462 times

    Saudi Arabia’s King Salman has announced that the Kingdom will spend 7 percent more next year, at around US$295 billion (1.1 trillion riyals). This breaks…

  • Panel Grants Go-Ahead To Line 5 Replacement In Great Lakes Area

    Published 20 December 2018 | viewed 7,419 times

    A panel set up to evaluate the environmental risks of replacing a section of Enbridge’s Line 5 oil pipeline in Michigan has given the project…

  • DoE Drops LNG Final Destination Reporting Requirement

    Published 20 December 2018 | viewed 6,912 times

    The Department of Energy has removed a requirement that says U.S. LNG exporters need to report what the final destination of the cargo is in…

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