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Irina Slav

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  • South Korea To Restart Iran Oil Imports At 4M Barrels Per Month

    Published 06 November 2018 | viewed 7,421 times

    South Korea will resume Iranian crude oil imports at a rate of about 4 million barrels a month, S&P Global Platts reports, citing three unnamed…

  • Japan Prepares To Restart Iran Oil Imports

    Published 06 November 2018 | viewed 7,523 times

    After suspending all shipments of Iranian crude to Japanese refineries ahead of the November 5 launch of U.S. sanctions against Tehran, Japanese refiners are now…

  • China Ready For Trade Talks

    Published 06 November 2018 | viewed 13,899 times

    China is ready to negotiate a trade deal with the United States as both economies stand to lose from a prolonged trade war, Vice President…

  • Will U.S. Solar Survive The Trade War?

    Published 05 November 2018 | viewed 16,841 times

    When President Trump announced a 30-percent tariff on Chinese solar panels, the U.S. solar industry responded with an unsurprising outcry against the protectionist measure that…

  • Nigeria's NNPC Could Ink Oil Swap Deals With Two More Supermajors

    Published 05 November 2018 | viewed 6,093 times

    Nigeria’s state oil company is mulling over the signing of two more oil swap deals, with Exxon and Shell, after last week it sealed an…

  • UAE Announces Major Oil & Gas Discoveries

    Published 05 November 2018 | viewed 47,955 times

    The UAE’s flagship oil and gas company Adnoc has made a gas discovery of 15 trillion cu ft and a crude oil discovery of 1…

  • Washington Issues Waivers, Warns Against Trading Oil With Iran

    Published 05 November 2018 | viewed 30,726 times

    Almost six months after Washington announced its withdrawal from the JCPOA deal, the U.S. formally re-instated sanctions on Iran as of today. In a press conference, U.S. Secretary…

  • Libya’s NOC Will Resume Phase 2 At Top Gas Field Soon

    Published 05 November 2018 | viewed 5,124 times

    Libya’s National Oil Corporation will soon resume the Phase 2 development of the Bahr Essalam field—the largest producing offshore gas deposit in the country—and by…

  • Mexico To Ramp Up LNG Imports From The U.S.

    Published 03 November 2018 | viewed 14,351 times

    Mexico is already one of the biggest clients of U.S. natural gas producers, and it will likely gain further prominence in the export destination mix…

  • Oil, Gas Drilling In Canada Set For A Decline

    Published 02 November 2018 | viewed 18,970 times

    Drilling for oil and gas in Canada will likely decline by 5 percent in 2019, the Petroleum Services Association of Canada has forecast, blaming pipeline…

  • Cutting Iranian Oil Imports To Zero Unrealistic: Indian Oil Corp

    Published 02 November 2018 | viewed 6,783 times

    The prospects of Indian refiners cutting their intake of Iranian crude oil to zero are unrealistic, the chairman of Indian Oil Corp. told S&P Global…

  • BLM Greenlights Solar Project Despite Environmental Opposition

    Published 02 November 2018 | viewed 5,972 times

    The Bureau of Land Management has approved the 500 MW Palen solar farm, a large-scale project in California that will be able to power as…

  • U.S. Grants Iran Sanction Waivers To Eight Countries

    Published 02 November 2018 | viewed 29,221 times

    Washington has granted eight Iranian oil importers waivers from the sanctions that enter into effect next Monday, among them Japan, South Korea, and India, a…

  • Does U.S. Oil Really Need More Oil Export Terminals?

    Published 01 November 2018 | viewed 12,349 times

    When U.S. crude oil exports earlier this year hit a record high of 3 million bpd, there was much joy and back-slapping, but amid this…

  • Encana Expands Shale Footprint With $5.5B Newfield Acquisition

    Published 01 November 2018 | viewed 7,118 times

    Canada’s Encana said today it will buy Newfield Exploration for US$5.5 billion in an all-stock deal that will also assume Newfield’s debt of US$2.2 billion…

  • Saudi Arabia’s Deficit Inches Down In Q3

    Published 01 November 2018 | viewed 6,098 times

    Saudi Arabia reported a fiscal deficit of US$1.95 billion (7.3 billion riyals) for the third quarter of the year, down from US$1.97 billion (7.4 billion)…

  • India Gets Much Needed Iran Sanction Waiver From U.S.

    Published 01 November 2018 | viewed 10,741 times

    Washington has granted India a waiver from the sanctions against Iran that snap back this Monday, the Economic Times reports, noting the waiver was secured…

  • The Clock Is Ticking: How Much Oil Will Iran Lose?

    Published 01 November 2018 | viewed 10,325 times

    Those energy analysts who are not yet bored to death with the whole Iran business must be having a field day making forecast after forecast…

  • Trump: There’s Enough Oil To Offset Iran Loss

    Published 01 November 2018 | viewed 14,436 times

    President Donald Trump has determined there was enough crude oil and oil products supply globally to offset any loss of supply from Iran after U.S.…

  • Oilfield Service Companies May Struggle To Pay Debt

    Published 31 October 2018 | viewed 7,917 times

    The oilfield service sector has been on the path of recovery from the 2014 industry downturn, but just when the industry says things are starting…

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