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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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  • Chevron Quits Australian Deepwater Oil Exploration

    Published 13 October 2017 | viewed 9,443 times

    Chevron has decided to drop its US$500-million exploration program in the Great Australian Bight off the coast of South Australia as low oil prices make…

  • The New Challenger To Lithium Batteries

    Published 12 October 2017 | viewed 67,691 times

    With the EV market about to explode and the European Union planning a battery-making consortium to bring the continent onto the global EV battery scene,…

  • India Needs Help To Boost Oil Production

    Published 12 October 2017 | viewed 6,577 times

    India needs foreign drillers on board to increase its crude oil production as it plans to reduce its dependence on imported oil. According to Wood…

  • Draw In Crude Inventories Lifts Oil Prices

    Published 12 October 2017 | viewed 20,046 times

    EIA today reported a 2.8-million-barrel draw in U.S. crude oil inventories for the week to October 6, lifting market spirits further amid higher oil demand…

  • District Judge Rules Dakota Access Can Continue Operating

    Published 12 October 2017 | viewed 4,871 times

    The Dakota Access oil pipeline can continue shipping oil from North Dakota’s Bakken fields to Illinois despite protests, U.S. district judge James Boasberg ruled in…

  • Busting The Lithium Bubble Myth

    Published 11 October 2017 | viewed 37,397 times

    Forget about oversupply of lithium, and ignore the naysayers. There’s no bubble here. Everyone’s talking about electric cars, and lithium miners are getting more than…

  • Oil M&A Deals Set To Rise

    Published 11 October 2017 | viewed 10,944 times

    Mergers and acquisitions in the oil and gas industry are on the rise, and the trend will intensify over the next 12 months, the latest…

  • Rising OPEC Production Weighs On Oil Prices

    Published 11 October 2017 | viewed 9,172 times

    After a brief respite in August, OPEC oil production rose once again in September, to 32.75 million bpd, up 88,500 bpd from the previous month,…

  • South Sudan Tightens Oil Industry Security

    Published 11 October 2017 | viewed 9,135 times

    South Sudan’s government is making a push for better oil industry security as the new African country looks to return to oil production rates from…

  • Saudi Arabia Ups November Oil Exports To 7-Million Bpd

    Published 10 October 2017 | viewed 11,000 times

    Saudi Arabia plans to export 7.1 million barrels of crude daily next month, substantially more than what it said it would ship abroad from August…

  • Niger Delta State Looks To Break Free From Oil

    Published 10 October 2017 | viewed 6,325 times

    Bayelsa, a state in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria, will search for non-oil natural resources to diversify away from its main commodity—oil. This is…

  • Saudis Lose Market Share To OPEC Rivals

    Published 10 October 2017 | viewed 7,159 times

    Iraq and Iran increased their crude oil shipments abroad last month, taking advantage of lower Saudi exports to key destinations to expand their international market…

  • The “Amazon Effect” Is Coming To Oil Markets

    Published 09 October 2017 | viewed 52,723 times

    While OPEC mulls over further steps to once again support falling oil prices, tech startups are quietly ushering in a new era in oil and…

  • Oil Stable After OPEC Chief Suggests ‘’Extraordinary Measures’’

    Published 09 October 2017 | viewed 13,855 times

    Brent crude and West Texas Intermediate started the week with gains after yesterday OPEC’s Secretary General, Mohammed Barkindo, said the cartel may have to take…

  • LNG Production Starts At Wheatstone

    Published 09 October 2017 | viewed 7,581 times

    Chevron has announced the start of production at its Wheatstone LNG offshore project in Australia, with exports from the facility due to begin in several…

  • Gulf Of Mexico Output Falls Nearly 100% After Hurricane Nate

    Published 09 October 2017 | viewed 12,523 times

    As of Sunday, 92.61 percent of crude oil production capacity in the Gulf of Mexico was shut in, the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement…

  • Higher Oil Prices Could Threaten Saudi Vision 2030

    Published 08 October 2017 | viewed 19,871 times

    Saudi’s headlines keep rolling in. Saudi Arabia is deepening its ties with Russia, with billions of investments planned for the future. Saudi Arabia is going…

  • Gulf Of Mexico Oil Producers Begin Evacuation Ahead Of Nate

    Published 06 October 2017 | viewed 11,390 times

    After Chevron said on Wednesday it was preparing to begin shutting down two platforms in the Gulf of Mexico ahead of a tropical storm raging…

  • World’s Biggest Oil Trader Questions Its Own Fate

    Published 06 October 2017 | viewed 22,391 times

    Vitol’s chief executive, Ian Taylor, said he expected the shift to electric vehicles and non-fossil fuel sources of energy to shrink the oil industry. Speaking…

  • Argentina Plans Offshore Oil Auction For 2018

    Published 06 October 2017 | viewed 9,043 times

    Argentina is eyeing a copycat of Brazil’s offshore oil and gas development with a tender of blocks off the Atlantic coast, to take place in…

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