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Irina Slav

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  • OPEC Oil Basket Falls Below WTI

    Published 23 June 2017 | viewed 29,837 times

    The price of OPEC’s oil basket, which is made out of 14 different blends, fell to US$42.58 a barrel yesterday, below the closing price of…

  • Petrobras To IPO Fuel Unit

    Published 23 June 2017 | viewed 5,994 times

    Brazil’s energy major Petrobras has prepared a proposal for the listing of its fuel unit, to be reviewed and approved by its board of directors,…

  • Russian Maritime Oil Exports Fall For First Time In 2017

    Published 22 June 2017 | viewed 10,622 times

    Russia exported 4.822 million bpd of crude oil by sea in May, down from a record 5.21 million bpd in the previous month, energy data…

  • Iran Starts Exporting Nat Gas To Iraq

    Published 22 June 2017 | viewed 5,896 times

    Iran has finally started exporting natural gas to its neighbor Iraq, after a four-year delay due to the challenging security situation in war-torn Iraq. The…

  • DAPL Will Continue Carrying Crude Through Summer

    Published 22 June 2017 | viewed 5,724 times

    Federal judge James Boasberg, who last week ruled for an assessment review of the environmental impacts of the Dakota Access pipeline, has scheduled more hearings on…

  • Mississippi’s Future Clean Coal Plant Gets Quashed By Regulators

    Published 22 June 2017 | viewed 4,483 times

    Clean coal’s future isn’t looking so bright today, as Mississippi regulators voted to stop progress on the second clean coal power plant in the U.S. in…

  • Paris Agreement Could Cost Big Oil Big Bucks: Report

    Published 21 June 2017 | viewed 9,247 times

    If governments around the world stick to the Paris Agreement targets for CO2 emissions, big oil companies stand to lose US$2.3 trillion in the period…

  • Sinking Louisiana: A Major Threat To Billions In Oil Infrastructure

    Published 21 June 2017 | viewed 36,409 times

    That Louisiana is sinking into the Gulf of Mexico is not news. Rising seas and coastline erosion have been working together for decades, but this…

  • Crude Inventory Draw Offers Sliver Of Hope For Oil Markets

    Published 21 June 2017 | viewed 24,416 times

    With WTI slipping into a bear market, global floating oil storage at a record high for this year, and Libya getting closer to its target…

  • Tehran Delays Azadegan Oil Field Tender

    Published 20 June 2017 | viewed 7,539 times

    The tender for the development of Iran’s Azadegan oil field has been delayed by several months, according to Ali Kardor, the managing director of the…

  • Total Ready To Bet $1B On Iranian Gas Field

    Published 20 June 2017 | viewed 10,266 times

    France’s energy giant Total will commit US$1 billion to the development of the South Pars offshore gas field in Iran, after the U.S. extended a…

  • Outlook For Oil Looks Bleak, Prices Hit 7-Month Low

    Published 20 June 2017 | viewed 23,070 times

    Crude oil started the week with a loss, which may be extended today as U.S. shale drillers continue to add rigs, and Libya and Nigeria…

  • Switching From Coal To Solar Could Save 50,000 Lives

    Published 19 June 2017 | viewed 16,080 times

    Replacing coal-fired power plants with solar power installations could save as many as 51,999 lives every year, a study from the Michigan Technological University has…

  • Libya Oil Output Hits 885,000 Bpd

    Published 19 June 2017 | viewed 10,919 times

    Libya is producing 885,000 barrels of crude oil daily after last week it reached an agreement with German Wintershall that will see the latter restart…

  • Rosneft Strikes First Oil In Eastern Arctic

    Published 19 June 2017 | viewed 16,208 times

    Russia’s Rosneft announced its first crude oil finds in the Eastern Arctic, in the Laptev Sea. The company did not detail any reserve estimates for the…

  • Shale-Related Seismic Activity Rises In Texas, Report

    Published 19 June 2017 | viewed 6,624 times

    Oklahoma is the state that springs to mind whenever earthquakes and oil are mentioned in the same sentence, but a fresh report from the Academy of…

  • Oil Sands Output Growth Second Only To Shale

    Published 18 June 2017 | viewed 26,075 times

    Canada’s Mordor, as environmentalists like to call the oil sands, is notorious for how “dirty” oil extraction is there. It’s also notorious for how expensive…

  • PetroChina Cuts Fuel Oil Floating Storage

    Published 16 June 2017 | viewed 10,833 times

    PetroChina and trader Mercuria have sold off half of the fuel oil they had in floating storage off the coasts of Singapore and Malaysia on…

  • Medallion Midstream Expands Permian Pipeline Capacity

    Published 16 June 2017 | viewed 7,517 times

    Medallion Midstream has announced the end of its binding open season for commitments from crude oil shippers for two extensions in its Wolfcamp pipeline system…

  • Are Hedge Funds Growing Weary Of The Permian?

    Published 16 June 2017 | viewed 14,051 times

    Eight hedge funds have pulled out more than US$400 million in positions in ten big shale oil and gas companies active in the Permian, Reuters…

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