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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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  • Mexico’s Obrador Steps Up Oil Nationalism Rhetoric

    Published 06 February 2018 | viewed 7,623 times

    Not a week after Mexico hosted its latest oil auction, the frontrunner for the next presidency in Mexico, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, has stepped up…

  • Gulf Of Guinea Pirates Release Oil Tanker Crew

    Published 06 February 2018 | viewed 8,590 times

    Pirates have released the 22-strong crew of the Marine Express tanker, which they captured a few days earlier. The tanker’s owner, Anglo-Eastern, said in a…

  • Maduro Proposes OPEC Cryptocurrency

    Published 06 February 2018 | viewed 16,372 times

    Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro seems intent on milking the digital currency fad for all it has. After proposing an oil-backed national cryptocurrency, as it were,…

  • Most Big Banks Are Now Bullish On Oil

    Published 05 February 2018 | viewed 13,311 times

    This time last year, all the big banks that OPEC and Russia took by surprise a month earlier by agreeing to an oil production cut…

  • Tesla Threatens To Pull Out Of Hong Kong Over EV Incentives

    Published 05 February 2018 | viewed 9,868 times

    Tesla is considering curbing its presence in Hong Kong if the city’s authorities don’t start offering EV buyers more incentives, a source close to the…

  • ISIS Tries To Attack Libyan Oilfield

    Published 05 February 2018 | viewed 20,186 times

    Terrorists from the Islamic State have tried to attack the Dhara oilfield, sources from the Libyan National Army told local media. The LNA confronted the…

  • U.S. Considers Cutting Venezuelan Oil Imports

    Published 05 February 2018 | viewed 15,092 times

    Washington may be nearing a decision on extending sanctions against Venezuela to include imports of Venezuelan crude and exports of U.S. refined products to the…

  • The U.S. Oil Boom Is Attracting Canadian Drillers

    Published 04 February 2018 | viewed 15,955 times

    Canadian oil and gas drillers are moving their rigs to the United States in response to greater demand for their service there and an investment…

  • Oil From Sunk Tanker May Have Reached Japan

    Published 02 February 2018 | viewed 7,513 times

    Blobs of oil-like liquid have been detected on several Japanese beaches, government officials report, cited by AFP, worried that it could be contamination from the…

  • Washington Further Facilitates Oil Drilling on Federal Lands

    Published 02 February 2018 | viewed 6,185 times

    The Interior Department has furthered its efforts to make oil and gas drilling on federal land easier by implementing a policy aimed at streamlining the…

  • Mexico’s Obrador Reiterates Plan To Review Oil Contracts

    Published 02 February 2018 | viewed 5,271 times

    Just a day after the most successful offshore oil and gas tender in Mexico since the 2013 energy industry reform, the frontrunner for the July…

  • Can OPEC Deal With Its Success?

    Published 01 February 2018 | viewed 6,908 times

    The 2017 data is in: OPEC’s success with its oil production cuts is now proved. In fact, the cartel and its partners — led by…

  • Asian Oil Companies Face $100B Well Decommissioning Bill

    Published 01 February 2018 | viewed 6,883 times

    Asian state-owned oil companies—and taxpayers in the Asia-Pacific—are facing a potential bill of up to US$100 billion for the decommissioning of tens of thousands of…

  • White House Prepares Severe Blow To The Renewables Industry

    Published 01 February 2018 | viewed 12,278 times

    The Trump administration may be preparing a very bad surprise for the renewable energy industry and environmentalists with a proposal to cut funding for clean…

  • Shell Snaps Up Nine Blocks In Mexico Oil Tender

    Published 01 February 2018 | viewed 6,536 times

    Shell emerged as the top bidder in Mexico’s second offshore oil and gas block licensing tender since the start of its energy reform in 2013,…

  • The Oil Rally Is Helping Renewables

    Published 31 January 2018 | viewed 12,924 times

    It may sound counterintuitive, but higher crude oil prices have proved to be a boon for the renewable energy industry, at least when it comes…

  • Cuba Expands Fuel Imports From Algeria As Venezuela Falters

    Published 31 January 2018 | viewed 7,530 times

    Cuba has signed a deal with Algeria to increase the amount of oil products it imports from the North African country as its main supplier,…

  • Oil Prices Fall After Strong Crude Inventory Build

    Published 31 January 2018 | viewed 26,802 times

    As investment banks become increasingly bullish on crude oil, the Energy Information Administration reported a 6.8-million-barrel build in U.S. crude oil inventories for the week…

  • British Columbia Proposes New Rules For Trans Mountain Pipeline

    Published 31 January 2018 | viewed 9,334 times

    The province of British Columbia has put one more hurdle in front of Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain oil pipeline project by proposing new rules that…

  • Analysts Raise Average WTI Forecast To $58 In 2018

    Published 31 January 2018 | viewed 10,505 times

    For yet another month, analysts raised their average forecasts for oil prices this year—expecting WTI Crude to average $58.11 a barrel—but warned that Brent Crude…

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