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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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  • Don’t Count On An OPEC Deal Extension

    Published 13 November 2017 | viewed 8,955 times

    A year ago this week, markets reeled from the surprise election of U.S. president Donald Trump, and eagerly awaited OPEC’s November meeting as the last…

  • BP CEO Sees Venezuela As Oil’s Wildcard

    Published 13 November 2017 | viewed 8,138 times

    Venezuela—not the Middle East—is the wild card when it comes to the near future of the oil industry, BP’s chief executive Bob Dudley told CNBC…

  • Iran Denies Involvement In Bahrain Oil Pipeline Blast

    Published 13 November 2017 | viewed 7,961 times

    Tehran has denied that it had anything to do with the blow-up of Bahrain’s biggest oil pipeline that carries crude from Saudi Arabia. In a…

  • Houthi Rebels Threaten To Attack Saudi Oil Tankers

    Published 13 November 2017 | viewed 22,984 times

    The Houthi rebel group in Yemen has threatened to start attacking oil tankers and warships sailing under enemy flag if the Gulf coalition fighting it…

  • Paradise Papers Reveal U.S. Selling Russian LNG In Europe

    Published 10 November 2017 | viewed 34,484 times

    The new massive data leak that has been making headlines for several days now has revealed that a company with U.S. ownership has been buying Russian gas…

  • Venezuela’s Oil Rival Calls For Full U.S. Sanctions

    Published 10 November 2017 | viewed 15,094 times

    Argentina’s President, Mauricio Macri, has called on the United States to install a full embargo on Venezuelan oil shipments. In an interview for the Financial…

  • New York Listing Unlikely For Aramco IPO

    Published 10 November 2017 | viewed 5,491 times

    Aramco is highly unlikely to list on the New York Stock Exchange, Mark Mobius, executive chairman of Templeton Emerging Markets Group, told CNBC. The reason:…

  • Kingdom Of Fear: Saudi Arabia On Lockdown

    Published 09 November 2017 | viewed 45,514 times

    Events in Saudi Arabia are unfolding at a blinding pace, with a radical shift taking place within the upper echelons of government. Last weekend, King…

  • Energy Majors Team Up To Create New UK Utility Giant

    Published 09 November 2017 | viewed 4,336 times

    UK utility ESS is in a rush to merge its household electricity supply business with German peer Innogy and exit the household power market ahead…

  • Is Saudi Arabia Lying about Its Oil Inventories?

    Published 09 November 2017 | viewed 52,965 times

    Saudi Arabia’s reports about declining crude oil inventories were instrumental in the buildup of trust on the market that OPEC’s—and the Kingdom’s specifically—efforts to rebalance…

  • Conoco Boasts $40 Per Barrel Breakeven

    Published 09 November 2017 | viewed 8,173 times

    It may sound a bit strange amid rising oil prices that one of the largest oil companies in the world is boasting it can break…

  • Trudeau, Where Is Your Back Up Plan For The Arctic Ban?

    Published 08 November 2017 | viewed 12,725 times

    When Canada’s federal government issued a five-year moratorium on oil and gas drilling in the Arctic at the end of last year, the environmentalist community…

  • Oil Prices Slip After Surprise Build In Crude Inventories

    Published 08 November 2017 | viewed 27,790 times

    After Brent and WTI both fell yesterday as traders started taking profit on the latest price rally, the EIA reported that U.S. crude oil inventories…

  • Bakken Oil Production Rises As Oil Prices Jump

    Published 08 November 2017 | viewed 14,811 times

    Crude oil production in the Bakken shale in North Dakota has been experiencing some major challenges lately, but it is firmly on the growth path,…

  • Google Gets There First: Autonomous Cars On The Road

    Published 08 November 2017 | viewed 34,673 times

    Google’s self-driving car project, Waymo, has become the first to launch completely autonomous cars, free of humans behind the wheel, on the road. Waymo’s CEO,…

  • Supermajors Square Off For The Top Spot In Oil

    Published 07 November 2017 | viewed 13,002 times

    Brent’s close to $65 a barrel and WTI is climbing closer and closer to $60—and analysts are rushing to make bullish forecasts for the fourth…

  • Iraq, Iran In Negotiations To Ship Oil From Kirkuk Fields

    Published 07 November 2017 | viewed 7,427 times

    The energy ministries of Iraq and Iran are negotiating the shipment of crude oil from the fields around Kirkuk to the Kermanshah refinery in Iran,…

  • Can Oil Prices Hit $65 This Week?

    Published 07 November 2017 | viewed 27,798 times

    Brent crude, the international benchmark, closed above US$64 a barrel for the first time since mid-2015 yesterday, and WTI settled at over US$57 as a…

  • U.S. Oil Refiners Look To IRS For Major Tax Credit

    Published 07 November 2017 | viewed 4,928 times

    Refiners in the U.S. are contemplating a claim that the addition of butane to gasoline qualifies for a US$0.50 per-gallon tax credit. The liquefied petroleum…

  • Is A Venezuelan Default Inevitable?

    Published 06 November 2017 | viewed 13,710 times

    Bondholders, creditors, and any company with operations in Venezuela are all agog for news from Caracas after President Nicolas Maduro announced Venezuela will look to…

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