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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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  • Oil Prices Slide Despite Falling OPEC Exports

    Published 01 September 2017 | viewed 11,692 times

    Saudi Arabia stuck to its promise to further cut crude oil exports in August to 6.6 million bpd, bringing OPEC’s total for the month to…

  • U.S. Coal Output Up 9.6% Year On Year

    Published 01 September 2017 | viewed 4,461 times

    U.S. coal output last week stood at 16.7 million short tons, according to estimates from the Energy Information Administration. This compares to 17.025 million tons…

  • Angola Needs Oil At $60

    Published 31 August 2017 | viewed 8,726 times

    Angola, Africa’s second-largest crude oil exporter, is finding it hard to make ends meet with oil prices at their current levels, according to Petroleum Minister…

  • Russian Energy Unaffected By U.S. Sanctions

    Published 31 August 2017 | viewed 9,312 times

    President Trump signed an array of sanctions against Russia, Venezuela, and North Korea, with those against Russia specifically targeting the country’s energy industry. The idea…

  • Gasoline Shortages Loom On East Coast As Colonial Pipeline Shuts Down

    Published 31 August 2017 | viewed 15,841 times

    The destruction Hurricane Harvey leaves in its wake has prompted the shutdown of a major fuel artery to the East Coast, the Colonial pipeline. The…

  • Pemex Needs Partner For $10.7B Offshore Oil Project

    Published 31 August 2017 | viewed 28,447 times

    Big Oil and independents will have to reach deep into their pockets if they want to win the farm-out rights to Mexico’s Nobilis-Maximino offshore field,…

  • Will This Bring Big Oil Back To The Bakken?

    Published 30 August 2017 | viewed 21,002 times

    If shale plays were people, everyone would be jealous of the Permian for getting all the attention. It is the leader in overall national oil…

  • Oil Markets React Stoically To Strong Crude Inventory Draw

    Published 30 August 2017 | viewed 21,077 times

    Amid the shutdown of 20 percent of U.S. refining capacity caused by Hurricane Harvey and the pending shutdown of more refineries as the storm moves…

  • Oil Shipments From Louisiana Jump Ahead Of Harvey

    Published 30 August 2017 | viewed 5,154 times

    Traders are scrambling to ship as much oil and oil products from the Louisiana coast before Hurricane Harvey hits it and disrupts loadings, Reuters reports.…

  • Oil Field Disruptions Cost Libya 350,000 Bpd In Output

    Published 30 August 2017 | viewed 7,729 times

    Recent disruptions of oil production in Libya have cost the country 350,000 barrels daily in lost output, the central bank of the country said, adding…

  • Lower-For-Longer Drives Leadership Shift In Big Oil

    Published 29 August 2017 | viewed 9,849 times

    When the Wall Street Journal last week reported that Chevron’s chief executive John Watson would step down, the most likely replacement as a “new leadership…

  • U.S. Crude Oil Cargo Delays Prompt Turn To Spot Market

    Published 29 August 2017 | viewed 5,675 times

    Delays in the delivery of U.S. crude oil cargoes to Asian refineries are prompting traders to consider buying feedstock for refineries on the spot market,…

  • Colombia Pipeline Bombing Takes 210,000 Bpd Off The Market

    Published 29 August 2017 | viewed 13,480 times

    A bombing of the Cano Limon oil pipeline in Colombia has led to the suspension of crude flow, sources from Ecopetrol and Colombia’s army told…

  • China Becomes World’s Third-Largest Shale Gas Producer

    Published 29 August 2017 | viewed 31,789 times

    China has become the world’s third-largest shale gas producer, after only the U.S. and Canada, Iran’s PressTV reports, adding that last year, China pumped almost…

  • Oil Prices Fall Despite Shutdowns Of Major Libyan Oil Fields

    Published 28 August 2017 | viewed 15,508 times

    A blockade of pipelines at the hands of armed militants has shut down production at three Libyan oil fields, including the biggest one, Sharara. Sharara…

  • South Pars Gas Exports Jump 12%

    Published 28 August 2017 | viewed 5,074 times

    Natural gas exports from the world’s biggest deposit, South Pars, rose by 12 percent over the past 12 months, according to Iran’s head of customs,…

  • Gas Prices Spike As Harvey Shuts Down Gulf Coast Refineries

    Published 28 August 2017 | viewed 8,125 times

    Gasoline prices hit two-year highs today in electronic trade after Hurricane Harvey, which reached the Texas coast last Friday, caused the shutdown of a number…

  • Researchers Announce Nuclear Fusion Breakthrough

    Published 27 August 2017 | viewed 76,770 times

    For years nuclear fusion was the stuff of sci-fi books and movies, but technology has brought it, like so many other things, closer to reality.…

  • North Sea Floating Oil Stockpiles Almost Halve In Two Weeks

    Published 25 August 2017 | viewed 13,461 times

    Crude oil stored on tankers idling in the North Sea has shrunk from 12 million barrels two weeks ago to just 6.6 million barrels, Paris-based…

  • U.S. Coal Output Hits 2017 High

    Published 25 August 2017 | viewed 4,730 times

    U.S. coal production is on the rise, hitting a high last week of 17.025 million tons, according to the Energy Information Administration. That’s 3.4 percent…

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