• 3 minutes e-car sales collapse
  • 6 minutes America Is Exceptional in Its Political Divide
  • 11 minutes Perovskites, a ‘dirt cheap’ alternative to silicon, just got a lot more efficient
  • 6 hours GREEN NEW DEAL = BLIZZARD OF LIES
  • 2 days How Far Have We Really Gotten With Alternative Energy
  • 12 days By Kellen McGovern Jones - "BlackRock Behind New TX-LA Offshore Wind Farm"
  • 3 hours If hydrogen is the answer, you're asking the wrong question
  • 7 days Solid State Lithium Battery Bank
  • 6 days Bad news for e-cars keeps coming
Irina Slav

Oilprice.com

Contributor since: 17 Jan 2016

Irina Slav

Irina is a writer for Oilprice.com with over a decade of experience writing on the oil and gas industry.

Latest articles from Irina

  • World’s First Floating Wind Farm Close To Launch

    Published 17 August 2017 | viewed 8,369 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…

  • Citi: U.S. Shale Beats OPEC At $40 Oil

    Published 17 August 2017 | viewed 22,199 times

    Citigroup has said that U.S. shale will prevail over OPEC because of its higher resilience to low prices and OPEC’s losing strategy of cutting output…

  • Ukraine Billed For Gas To Pro-Russian Separatists

    Published 17 August 2017 | viewed 6,195 times

    Gazprom has been supplying natural gas to pro-Russian separatist territories in eastern Ukraine and charging Kyiv’s state-owned company Naftogaz for it, Ukrainian UAWire reported, citing…

  • The Strategic Petroleum Reserve Is Slowly Dying

    Published 16 August 2017 | viewed 21,082 times

    Forty years ago, in the wake of the Arab oil embargo that made the United States acutely aware of just how dependent its economy was…

  • Transocean Seals Biggest Offshore Oil Deal Since Crash

    Published 16 August 2017 | viewed 9,584 times

    In what’s the biggest M&A deal in oil since the 2014 price crash, Transocean has agreed to buy Norwegian sector player Songa Offshore for U$1.1…

  • Trump Speeds Up Oil, Gas Pipeline Approval Process

    Published 16 August 2017 | viewed 12,970 times

    With an executive order signed yesterday, President Donald Trump has set out to speed up the approval process for major infrastructure projects, including oil and…

  • Oil Prices Rise On Hefty Crude Inventory Draw

    Published 16 August 2017 | viewed 19,434 times

    Another week, another draw – this seems to be the refrain this driving season, with the API and the EIA in sync with their weekly…

  • Foreign Oil Eyes 44 Billion Barrels In Cuba

    Published 15 August 2017 | viewed 31,460 times

    One of the few foreign energy companies with a presence in Cuba is now seeking funding for a 2018 exploration drilling campaign for Block 9,…

  • Australia Takes On Qatar For Top LNG Producer Status

    Published 15 August 2017 | viewed 8,329 times

    Australia this week moved a step closer to becoming a real problem for Qatar on the LNG market, after the second floating production, storage, and…

  • Can The Permian Push Prices Down To $40?

    Published 14 August 2017 | viewed 15,125 times

    Two analyst firms have revised upwards their production growth forecasts for the Permian, expecting oil output there to be 300,000 bpd higher by the end…

  • Oil Prices Inch Higher As Libya Closes Crude Export Terminal

    Published 14 August 2017 | viewed 12,320 times

    The Zueitina oil terminal in Libya has ceased loading cargos as port workers protest, demanding better working conditions, Bloomberg quoted the head of the workers’…

  • Higher Oil Prices Slash Saudi Deficit

    Published 14 August 2017 | viewed 8,903 times

    The Saudi Finance Minister has announced an annual decline in the budget deficit for the first half of the year thanks to higher oil prices…

  • 35,000-Barrel Oil Spill Prompts Urgent Cleanup In Kuwait

    Published 14 August 2017 | viewed 8,088 times

    An oil spill into Kuwaiti waters prompted an emergency cleanup over the weekend, with media reports saying it all will be over this week. While…

  • Is LNG Moving From A Buyers’ To A Sellers’ Market?

    Published 13 August 2017 | viewed 12,303 times

    When Petronas announced the cancellation of its biggest investment abroad, its US$28-billion Pacific NorthWest LNG project, the news sounded an alarm for the LNG industry,…

  • Indian Refiners Plan To Splash $35B On Petrochemicals

    Published 11 August 2017 | viewed 6,269 times

    Indian state-owned refiners are planning to spend US$35 billion on expanding their petrochemicals output in anticipation of a boom in demand for products ranging from…

  • B.C. Seeks To Block Trans Mountain Oil Pipeline Extension

    Published 11 August 2017 | viewed 9,324 times

    The new government of British Columbia has announced that it stands firmly against the extension of Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain oil pipeline and will seek…

  • China Prepares For A Natural Gas Import Boom

    Published 10 August 2017 | viewed 25,488 times

    Last month, the International Energy Agency said that China will account for 40 percent of the global annual growth in natural gas demand over the…

  • Iraqi Economy Hit Hard By ISIS And Low Oil Prices

    Published 10 August 2017 | viewed 7,641 times

    Iraq continues to face economic growth challenges due to the consistently lower oil prices and the fallout from the war with IS, the International Monetary…

  • Gazprom Neft Bets On Stable Oil Market In 2018

    Published 10 August 2017 | viewed 4,505 times

    Gazprom Neft plans to borrow some US$2 billion next year as it expects international oil markets to stabilize and the Russian central bank to reduce…

  • Oil Glut Endures As OPEC Confirms Higher Output

    Published 10 August 2017 | viewed 12,988 times

    OPEC confirmed reports that its crude oil production increase last month, reporting a daily rate of 32.869 million barrels, up by 172,600 bpd. Global commercial…

Oilprice - The No. 1 Source for Oil & Energy News