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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.

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  • China To Consolidate Energy Industry Authority In New Ministry

    Published 08 March 2018 | viewed 5,942 times

    China’s government plans to consolidate its energy industry authority into a new ministry, to replace the National Energy Administration, unnamed sources told Reuters. The NEA…

  • Rick Perry: U.S. Should Ramp Up Oil, Tech Exports

    Published 08 March 2018 | viewed 8,095 times

    The United States should make the best use of its oil and gas wealth by boosting exports and sharing production technology with other parts of…

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    Published 08 March 2018 | viewed 10,035 times

    Tesla’s Semi, the electric truck that the company unveiled a few months ago, has been sent on its first cargo trip, transporting battery packs from…

  • Angola Faces Oil Industry Crisis

    Published 07 March 2018 | viewed 17,875 times

    Angola has been OPEC’s second most compliant member with regard to the 2016 oil production cut deal, but just like the number-one compliant member, Venezuela,…

  • Is The Argentinian Shale Boom Finally Taking Off?

    Published 07 March 2018 | viewed 8,913 times

    Argentina’s state oil and gas company YPF expects its oil and gas production from shale deposits to increase 35 percent this year thanks to falling…

  • Can Tech Really Transform The Oil Industry?

    Published 07 March 2018 | viewed 11,321 times

    If there is ever a poll for the most annoying, most abused word or phrase in the technology field, “innovation” will be up there in…

  • Hong Kong Looks Increasingly Attractive For Aramco Listing

    Published 07 March 2018 | viewed 6,265 times

    Hong Kong is emerging as the frontrunner for Aramco’s international listing, unnamed sources familiar with developments around the IPO of the century told Reuters. New…

  • Oil Prices Rebound After EIA Reports Build In Crude Inventories

    Published 07 March 2018 | viewed 31,388 times

    The Energy Information Administration reported a 2.4-million-barrel build in crude oil inventories for last week. The report’s out a day after the S&P 500 futures…

  • Saudi Ex-Oil Minister Not Worried About Demand Forecasts

    Published 06 March 2018 | viewed 6,796 times

    Saudi Arabia’s former oil minister, Ali al-Naimi, is not worried about demand forecasts that suggest OPEC may have a hard time keeping prices high enough…

  • Arctic Oil Lease Sale Could Come Next Year

    Published 06 March 2018 | viewed 5,206 times

    The first lease sale in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge could take place as early as next year, Senator Dan Sullivan from Alaska said at…

  • Nigeria Can Produce Oil At $20 A Barrel

    Published 06 March 2018 | viewed 23,408 times

    The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation can produce crude oil at around US$20 a barrel, but there are plans to bring this even lower, to US$15…

  • Beast Of The East Highlights European Gas Dependence

    Published 05 March 2018 | viewed 8,516 times

    The UK is receiving two Russian LNG cargos this week after a rare cold spell caused by freezing winds from Siberia. Some might see a…

  • Shale Boom Could Create A Refining Bottleneck

    Published 05 March 2018 | viewed 13,577 times

    The growth in U.S. shale oil production is threatening to create bottlenecks in refineries, new research from Wood Mackenzie has revealed. The research suggests the…

  • OPEC President: Oil Cut Extension Hasn’t Been Discussed

    Published 05 March 2018 | viewed 6,498 times

    There has been no talk about extending crude oil production cuts into next year, OPEC’s president, UAE energy minister Suhail al-Mazrouei, said ahead of this…

  • Sharara Oil Field Resumes Pumping After Weekend Shutdown

    Published 05 March 2018 | viewed 5,456 times

    Crude oil production at Sharara, Libya’s biggest oil field, was briefly suspended after the pipeline that feeds the crude from the field to the Zawiya…

  • Can Russia & China Rescue Venezuela?

    Published 04 March 2018 | viewed 33,308 times

    "The imposition of U.S. oil sanctions is now edging closer to reality. Such a move would act as the death knell for Venezuela's oil industry," PVM…

  • Academic Slams Exxon Climate Change Study

    Published 02 March 2018 | viewed 6,668 times

    A communications professor has slammed a 2017 study that had concluded Exxon knew about the effects of the oil and gas industry on the environment…

  • Manila, State Chinese Oil Company to Explore Disputed Sea Together

    Published 02 March 2018 | viewed 5,493 times

    The Philippines’ government is in talks with an unnamed state Chinese oil company to discuss the opportunities for joint oil and gas exploration in the…

  • Chevron: We Will Survive Under Any Climate Change Scenario

    Published 02 March 2018 | viewed 7,683 times

    In its second climate change report Chevron said its business is resilient to a number of scenarios the company has looked into, despite the push…

  • MIT's Miracle Energy Breakthrough

    Published 01 March 2018 | viewed 22,717 times

    A black box has been sitting on the roof of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology building for the last few months. Beside it sits a…

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