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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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  • Goldman Chief Urges Riyadh To Get Vision 2030 Going

    Published 22 September 2017 | viewed 11,583 times

    Goldman Sachs’ chief executive, Lloyd Blankfein, has urged Saudi Arabia to pursue faster progress on its Vision 2030 economic diversification program. Speaking at the Bloomberg…

  • North Sea Oil Sees Investment Rush

    Published 21 September 2017 | viewed 14,428 times

    Hundreds of millions in decommissioning costs, field depletion, high taxes and low oil prices have been the highlights of media coverage of the UK’s North…

  • Peruvian Villagers Shut Down 50 Oil Wells In Protest

    Published 21 September 2017 | viewed 6,799 times

    Villagers in the Peru Amazon have shut down 50 oil wells in protest against the negotiations of a new oil field development contract between Lima…

  • Hurricane Damage To Trigger Fuel Glut

    Published 21 September 2017 | viewed 10,928 times

    Damage from hurricanes in the Caribbean, which sends a substantial amount of fuel oil to the U.S. Gulf Coast, could lead to a glut of…

  • Bay Area Sues Big Oil For Billions

    Published 21 September 2017 | viewed 10,841 times

    The cities of San Francisco and Oakland have filed lawsuits against Chevron, Exxon, ConocoPhillips, BP, and Shell for the effect of their activities on climate…

  • Will The White House Prevent Rosneft From Buying Citgo?

    Published 20 September 2017 | viewed 11,612 times

    Senators have pressed the Trump Administration to review the chances of Russia’s Rosneft acquiring Venezuela’s PDVSA and its U.S. business, Citgo. Marco Rubio and Bob…

  • The Race For The “Holy Grail” Of Renewables

    Published 20 September 2017 | viewed 17,298 times

    In February, AES Energy’s Escondido battery storage facility in California was hailed as the largest one to date, with a capacity of 30 MW/120 MWh.…

  • Has The EIA Been Overestimating Oil Production?

    Published 20 September 2017 | viewed 21,072 times

    The Energy Information Administration is overestimating U.S. crude oil production, Continental Resource’s chief executive Harold Hamm said today in an interview with Fox Business. Hamm…

  • Is Artificial Intelligence The Next Step In Total's Tech Push?

    Published 20 September 2017 | viewed 9,216 times

    France’s top oil player Total has once again demonstrated that it is wasting no time to prepare for the future realities of an increasingly green,…

  • EIA Report Kills Bullish Sentiment

    Published 20 September 2017 | viewed 24,145 times

    Amid restarting refineries along the Gulf Coast and growing optimism about strengthening demand, the EIA dampened spirits somewhat by reporting a substantial increase in crude…

  • Gulf Keystone Plans Further Oil Output Increase In Kurdistan

    Published 19 September 2017 | viewed 6,054 times

    Independent E&P Gulf Keystone, whose operations are concentrated in Kurdistan, said it has enough cash flow to invest in further crude oil output production in…

  • Venezuela’s Crisis Deepens As Hurricane Approaches

    Published 19 September 2017 | viewed 10,849 times

    Oil traders have started to divert fuel shipments from their original destination in Venezuela as Hurricane Maria approaches the Caribbean, Reuters vessel tracking data has…

  • Tension Rises In Oil-Rich Kurdistan

    Published 19 September 2017 | viewed 5,733 times

    Ethnic tensions are heating up in Kirkuk, the center of northern Iraq’s oil industry, ahead of an independence referendum that the Kurdistan Regional Government has…

  • The Chinese Giant Taking Over Energy Markets

    Published 18 September 2017 | viewed 13,267 times

    Last week’s announcement of the US$9-billion acquisition by Chinese CEFC of a more than 14-percent stake in Rosneft sent ripples across the oil industry and…

  • Iran Eyes US$60B In Renewables Revenue By 2023

    Published 18 September 2017 | viewed 6,864 times

    Less than two years after it returned to the international oil markets, Iran is quick to embrace the alternative of oil: renewable energy sources. The…

  • Oil Price Volatility Is Set To Return

    Published 18 September 2017 | viewed 34,282 times

    Oil markets could experience more intense price volatility in the coming years because of insufficient investment in new production, according to the head of the…

  • Shell To Restart Major Oil Refinery

    Published 18 September 2017 | viewed 9,617 times

    Shell is set to restart its 325,700-bpd Deer Park refinery in Texas, after shutting it down for three weeks during and after Hurricane Harvey’s sweep…

  • China Cracks Down Oil Smuggling Network

    Published 15 September 2017 | viewed 6,035 times

    Chinese authorities have busted an oil smuggling group in the Fujian Province, in eastern China, that has since the start of the year smuggled fuel…

  • Aramco IPO Remains On Track, Company Says

    Published 15 September 2017 | viewed 4,602 times

    Aramco’s initial public offering remains on track for next year, the company told UAE’s The National in an email, following a report that suggested the…

  • South Korea To Begin Phasing Out Nuclear Plants

    Published 15 September 2017 | viewed 7,890 times

    South Korea is eyeing independence from nuclear energy, to be implemented gradually over the next six decades, as it seeks to switch to safer clean…

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