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Irina Slav

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    Published 25 August 2017 | viewed 5,107 times

    As investors wait to see if PDVSA will default on about US$3.5 billion in debt due this fall and push oil prices up, Nicolas Maduro…

  • Big Oil Shuts Down Gulf Of Mexico Production Ahead Of Storm

    Published 24 August 2017 | viewed 13,940 times

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  • Shell Launches Second Phase Of Major Nigerian Gas Project

    Published 24 August 2017 | viewed 8,830 times

    Shell has begun pumping natural gas from the second phase of development at the Gbaran-Ubie Niger Delta project. The gas from the expanded project will…

  • Is New York About To Face An Energy Crisis?

    Published 24 August 2017 | viewed 16,591 times

    Amid the fracking boom that brought natural gas prices to historic lows and led to the transition of a lot of power generation capacity from…

  • Forget OPEC, China Controls Oil Prices

    Published 23 August 2017 | viewed 52,454 times

    U.S. shale has taken a lot of headline space recently as the biggest headwind for oil prices and the highest stumbling block for OPEC’s efforts…

  • Can Mexico Replicate The U.S. Shale Boom?

    Published 23 August 2017 | viewed 15,001 times

    Natural gas has been hailed as the bridge between fossil fuels and renewables. Global gas demand has been growing at an average annual 2.3 percent…

  • Microsoft, Halliburton Partner To Digitize Oil And Gas Industry

    Published 23 August 2017 | viewed 11,862 times

    Halliburton and Microsoft have struck a partnership that will see the oil industry transform in radical ways, Microsoft said in a statement, digitizing a massive…

  • Libya’s Largest Oilfield Offline, Amid Uncertainty, ISIS Beheadings

    Published 23 August 2017 | viewed 10,046 times

    Libya’s largest oilfield, the Sharara, remains offline despite contradictory news reports this morning suggesting that exports would resume. Weighing in on oil price uncertainty, market…

  • Mexico Launches Its First Gas Price Index

    Published 23 August 2017 | viewed 5,027 times

    Mexico’s energy regulator has announced the first publication of a natural gas wholesale price index for the first time since introducing sweeping energy reforms, with…

  • EIA Spreads Optimism With Double Draw

    Published 23 August 2017 | viewed 21,607 times

    A day after API’s estimate of oil and gasoline inventories pressured prices, the EIA gave the market cause for optimism by reporting not only a…

  • BHP Billiton Seeking Buyers For U.S. Shale Oil Assets

    Published 22 August 2017 | viewed 9,184 times

    BHP Billiton is seeking buyers for its U.S. shale oil and gas operations after deciding that this business is non-core. The company will retain its…

  • Sailors’ Bodies Found After Oil Tanker, Destroyer Crash

    Published 22 August 2017 | viewed 4,517 times

    Divers from the U.S. Navy and the Marine Corps have found the remains of some of the 10 missing sailors from the USS John S…

  • Colombia Looks At Shale As Oil Reserves Plunge

    Published 21 August 2017 | viewed 16,839 times

    Colombia’s oil production has been falling for the last four years. It’s not just the 2014 price crash that pressured output: The country’s fields are…

  • Two Oil Giants Merge In $7.45 Billion Deal

    Published 21 August 2017 | viewed 19,157 times

    French Total today announced the acquisition of Danish Maersk Oil in a stock and debt transaction worth US$7.45 billion. The bigger portion of the deal,…

  • Oil Tanker, U.S. Destroyer Collide In Singapore Strait

    Published 21 August 2017 | viewed 5,104 times

    The USS John S McCain, a guided missile destroyer, collided with an oil tanker sailing under a Liberian flag in the Strait of Singapore on…

  • Indonesia’s Ailing Oil Sector Needs Urgent Overhaul

    Published 20 August 2017 | viewed 11,889 times

    Indonesia’s oil industry is languishing, it’s fields are depleting and it desperately needs investment, but unlike another up-and-coming oil major—Argentina—it’s not willing to do what…

  • Climate Change Opens Up Shorter Arctic Passage For LNG

    Published 18 August 2017 | viewed 7,792 times

    The Cristophe de Margerie, an LNG carrier commissioned by French Total, has become the first tanker to pass the Arctic unaided and is now en…

  • Chevron Folds In Landmark Australia Tax Lawsuit

    Published 18 August 2017 | viewed 6,529 times

    Chevron has settled with the Australian Tax Office in a lawsuit seeking penalties against the oil major for tax evasion. The size of the settlement…

  • Venezuelan Oil Tanker Trapped In US Waters With No Credit

    Published 18 August 2017 | viewed 20,160 times

    A Suezmax tanker carrying about a million barrels of Venezuelan crude oil has been sitting near the Louisiana coast for a month now, awaiting a…

  • World’s First Floating Wind Farm Close To Launch

    Published 17 August 2017 | viewed 8,344 times

    The world’s first commercial-scale floating wind farm is about to start production after the delivery of the fifth and final turbine to the site of…

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