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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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  • World’s Largest Car Market Turns To Electric Vehicles

    Published 11 September 2017 | viewed 13,404 times

    China is preparing to announce the date from which internal combustion engine car sales will be banned, joining Norway, France, and the UK, among others,…

  • Top Legislators Question FCA Over Aramco Listing Rules

    Published 08 September 2017 | viewed 4,437 times

    The chairs of two UK parliament committees have approached the Financial Services Authority over a proposal to relax LSE listing rules in a bid to…

  • Traders Expect Much Tighter Oil Markets In Early 2018

    Published 08 September 2017 | viewed 14,699 times

    Optimism among oil traders seems to be rising based on Brent calendar spreads, according to Reuters market analyst John Kemp. He notes in a recent…

  • TransCanada Requests Suspension Of Oil Pipeline

    Published 08 September 2017 | viewed 15,962 times

    TransCanada has asked for a 30-day suspension of its application for the Energy East pipeline that should transport crude oil from Alberta and Saskatchewan to…

  • Hurricane Irma Prompts Oil Storage, Port Shutdowns

    Published 08 September 2017 | viewed 12,250 times

    Hurricane Irma has prompted the shutdown of at least two oil storage complexes in the Caribbean, with a combined capacity of 18.6 million barrels, S&P…

  • Will Hydrogen Break The Battery Market?

    Published 07 September 2017 | viewed 60,794 times

    The most abundant element in the universe—hydrogen—has been attracting less attention than it deserves on the clean energy stage, with batteries of all sorts stealing…

  • Sempra Gets Court’s Greenlight For Oncor Acquisition

    Published 07 September 2017 | viewed 5,494 times

    Sempra Energy can proceed with its US$9.45-billion acquisition of Oncor Electric Delivery Co. after a bankruptcy judge ruled in favor of the deal. The last…

  • World’s Largest Nuclear Power Plant One Step Closer To Operation

    Published 07 September 2017 | viewed 26,901 times

    The Kashiwasaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant, the world’s largest, may get clearance to resume operations after six years of dormancy following the Fukushima disaster. The Japanese…

  • Oil Prices Steady Amid Rising Crude Inventories

    Published 07 September 2017 | viewed 18,108 times

    As refineries along the Gulf Coast slowly resume normal operations, there was no surprise in this week’s EIA inventory report: a build of 4.6 million…

  • Can Bitumen Pellets Make Oil-By-Rail Safer?

    Published 07 September 2017 | viewed 15,607 times

    A Canadian engineer and his team accidentally discovered a way that could make transporting heavy Alberta crude by rail much more safely. In fact, the…

  • OPEC Fails To Cut Oil Exports Below 2016 Levels

    Published 07 September 2017 | viewed 10,399 times

    OPEC exported 25.19 million bpd of crude oil last month, the lowest since April this year, Thomson Reuters Oil Research said, but the eight-month average…

  • Can NAFTA Protect Big Oil From Mexico’s Populist Movement?

    Published 06 September 2017 | viewed 11,788 times

    The second round of NAFTA negotiations that concluded yesterday in Mexico City sought ways to enshrine the 2014 energy sector reforms that the Enrique Pena-Nieto…

  • UK Oil And Gas Shed 60,000 Jobs In 2016

    Published 06 September 2017 | viewed 7,074 times

    The UK oil and gas industry lost 60,000 jobs last year, according to Oil & Gas UK’s latest Economic Report. That was 20,000 jobs more…

  • Libya Resumes Production At Largest Field Amid Rising Oil Prices

    Published 06 September 2017 | viewed 14,948 times

    Libya’s largest oil field, Sharara, will resume production following a two-week halt, after a pipeline blockade ended yesterday. This is what an unnamed source from…

  • OPEC Deal Could Be Extended Beyond March 2018

    Published 05 September 2017 | viewed 8,538 times

    The crude oil production cut deal that OPEC, Russia, and several other producers agreed to late last year could get yet another extension. This extension…

  • In A Bold Move, Saudis Raise Crude Prices For Asia

    Published 05 September 2017 | viewed 12,498 times

    Saudi Arabia’s Aramco said yesterday that it will raise the October price of its Arab Light crude oil blend for Asian clients by US$0.55 a…

  • Post Harvey: Crude Climbs As Gasoline Crashes

    Published 05 September 2017 | viewed 15,458 times

    As refineries along the Gulf Coast started returning to normal operations after Hurricane Harvey, WTI prices inched up despite a sluggish trading session yesterday due…

  • A War With North Korea Could Send Oil Prices Skyrocketing

    Published 04 September 2017 | viewed 63,842 times

    An open military conflict in Northern Asia would disrupt more than a third of global seaborne crude oil trade, Wood Mackenzie warned last week amid…

  • Insolvencies Jump In Canada’s Oil Country

    Published 04 September 2017 | viewed 8,429 times

    Canada’s oil-producing regions saw the highest increase in insolvencies over the 12 months to June 2017, according to the latest insolvency report by the federal…

  • Is Big Oil Prepared For The Natural Gas Era?

    Published 04 September 2017 | viewed 15,396 times

    By 2034, natural gas will overtake oil as the main source of energy, and by 2050 it will be the single largest such source globally,…

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