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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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  • Traders Hoard LPG Off Singapore Coast

    Published 09 August 2017 | viewed 5,951 times

    LPG-carrying vessels are piling up off the coast of Singapore as traders await higher prices, Reuters reports, citing industry insiders. According to tanker tracking data…

  • Oil Prices Slip On Strong Crude Draw, Surprise Gasoline Build

    Published 09 August 2017 | viewed 20,941 times

    Amid stubbornly falling oil prices and growing doubts about OPEC’s ability to rein in production, the EIA reported a draw in U.S. commercial crude oil…

  • Dear Millennials, Big Oil Is Not Your Enemy

    Published 08 August 2017 | viewed 21,603 times

    Oil and gas is, apparently, the latest industry that millennials have marked for death. They don’t want to work in the industry because it’s dirty,…

  • BP Strikes Major Gas Deposit In New Mexico

    Published 08 August 2017 | viewed 5,076 times

    BP has announced a potentially huge gas discovery in the Mancos Shale in New Mexico. The NEBU 602 Com 1H well, the company said, yielded…

  • Saudi Arabia Set To Slash Exports To Asia In September

    Published 08 August 2017 | viewed 9,922 times

    Saudi Arabia will ship one million bpd less crude oil to Asia next month in the latest sign that it is serious about shrinking the…

  • Washington Mulls Over Additional Sanctions Against Venezuela

    Published 08 August 2017 | viewed 7,024 times

    The Trump administration is considering additional sanctions on Venezuelan individuals close to the Maduro government, but will first try to enlist support from other countries.…

  • There Is No Dethroning Tesla As The Gigafactory Leader

    Published 07 August 2017 | viewed 13,272 times

    A 17-company German consortium has announced plans to build a 34-GWh lithium-ion battery gigafactory, which is reportedly set to rival Tesla’s Reno facility. Rivalry, however,…

  • Russia May Break Gazprom Monopoly To Stimulate LNG

    Published 07 August 2017 | viewed 12,721 times

    A Russian Security Council commission has recommended breaking down Gazprom’s gas export monopoly in a bid to boost the competitiveness of Russia’s gas, Russian daily…

  • Uganda Picks GE, Saipem To Build First Oil Refinery

    Published 07 August 2017 | viewed 15,702 times

    Uganda has picked a consortium including GE and Italian Saipem to build and operate the African country’s first oil refinery. The 60,000-bpd facility will process…

  • Oil Prices Fall As OPEC Output Hits ‘’Year-To-Date High’’

    Published 07 August 2017 | viewed 12,334 times

    Libya and Nigeria pushed OPEC’s crude oil output in July to the highest this year, at 32.82 million barrels daily, a survey by S&P Platts…

  • Libya’s Largest Oil Field Restarts After Armed Protesters Stormed Control Room

    Published 07 August 2017 | viewed 4,991 times

    Libya’s largest oil field, Sharara, is resuming normal operations after a brief shutdown caused by a militant attack on the control room in the port…

  • Shale Producers Hedge At Much Lower Prices

    Published 06 August 2017 | viewed 21,289 times

    Shale oil producers are hedging again – this is the latest message coming from investment banks and analytical firms, according to Bloomberg. After hedging largely…

  • Rosneft’s H1 Profit Falls 12.5%

    Published 04 August 2017 | viewed 4,249 times

    Rosneft reported a net profit attributable to shareholders of US$1.4 billion for the first half of 2017, down by 12.5 percent from the result for…

  • Niger Delta Legalizes Illicit Oil Refineries

    Published 04 August 2017 | viewed 8,122 times

    The Nigerian government will make illicit refineries operating in the Niger Delta legal, and will even supply them with crude oil, the presidency announced yesterday.…

  • China-Myanmar Warming Continues With Energy Export Talks

    Published 04 August 2017 | viewed 5,279 times

    China may soon start selling electricity to neighbor Myanmar in the latest sign that bilateral relations are thawing. China/Myanmar relations have been tense since 2011,…

  • The Two OPEC Members Benefitting From The Cut

    Published 03 August 2017 | viewed 11,493 times

    While OPEC is preparing for yet another meeting to discuss compliance with its notorious production cut deal, two of its members are enjoying something of…

  • NNPC Announces New Deals With Four Oil Majors

    Published 03 August 2017 | viewed 7,716 times

    The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation has inked new investment deals with four oil companies including Chevron, Shell, Total, and Eni for the development of untapped…

  • Iran To Boost Oil Exports To China Further In August

    Published 03 August 2017 | viewed 7,560 times

    Iran’s crude oil exports to China could hit an 11-month high this month, according to sources who spoke to Reuters. But overall, Iran’s total oil…

  • Indonesia Asks Chevron, Conoco to Consider Extending Oil Licenses

    Published 03 August 2017 | viewed 6,490 times

    The Indonesian government has approached Chevron and Conoco with an offer to consider extending their licenses, which expire in a few years, as part of…

  • As Oil Prices Rise, Are Oil Bulls Too Optimistic?

    Published 02 August 2017 | viewed 10,079 times

    Optimism, at first tentative and in the last week more pronounced, has been taking over oil markets. Short positions on WTI were at a three-month…

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