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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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  • BP May Spin Off Midstream U.S. Assets

    Published 19 July 2017 | viewed 5,659 times

    BP is considering a restructuring of its oil, gas, and petroleum product business in the U.S. that would involve the spin-off of some of the…

  • Oil Prices Leap Higher After Draw In Crude Inventories

    Published 19 July 2017 | viewed 16,242 times

    The Energy Information Administration offered jittery oil markets respite today by reporting a draw of 4.7 million barrels in U.S. commercial oil inventories. The report…

  • Stability Is Returning To Oil Markets

    Published 18 July 2017 | viewed 10,049 times

    The last couple of years have been turbulent for the international oil market and all of its players. But there are signs that the waters…

  • Japanese Court Clears Idemitsu’s Merger With Rival Refinery

    Published 18 July 2017 | viewed 3,255 times

    A Tokyo court has rejected a petition brought against Japan’s biggest oil refiner, Idemitsu Cosan, by its founding family. The family argued that a recent…

  • Mexico Set To Announce Terms Of Next Deepwater Oil Tender

    Published 18 July 2017 | viewed 3,707 times

    Mexico’s National Hydrocarbons Commission will later this week announce the terms for its second deepwater oil and gas tender, and the blocks that will be…

  • Exxon Pulls Out Of Indonesian Offshore Gas Field Project

    Published 18 July 2017 | viewed 7,720 times

    ExxonMobil has decided that it “no longer wishes to continue further discussions or activity” regarding the East Natuna natural gas block offshore Indonesia, after having…

  • Are More Bankruptcies On The Way For U.S. Oil?

    Published 17 July 2017 | viewed 21,412 times

    Something that’s been whispered about in the last few months is now being talked about loudly: U.S. oil drillers’ debts. There have been a few…

  • Saudi Arabia Launches Tender For Wind Plant

    Published 17 July 2017 | viewed 6,484 times

    Saudi Arabia’s Energy Ministry has invited bids for a 400-MW wind power plant to be built in northwestern Saudi Arabia. According to the press release,…

  • Chinese Refineries Near All-Time Throughput Record In June

    Published 17 July 2017 | viewed 8,036 times

    Chinese refineries processed 11.21 million bpd of crude oil last month, up 2.3 percent on the year and the second-highest daily processing rate on record,…

  • Second Indian Company Buys U.S. Crude

    Published 17 July 2017 | viewed 9,860 times

    Bharat Petroleum has become the second Indian refiner to start buying U.S. crude oil, after Bharat purchased 500,000 bpd of Mars and the same amount…

  • The Only Way OPEC Can Kill U.S. Shale

    Published 16 July 2017 | viewed 83,345 times

    One commodity analyst got it right: the OPEC cuts would not work. After November last year when the oil cartel announced its agreement with Russia…

  • Tesla Faces Stiff Competition In Energy Storage War

    Published 15 July 2017 | viewed 21,987 times

    A week after Tesla announced it had won a tender for the installation of the world’s biggest battery storage system in Australia, Siemens and AES…

  • U.S., Mexico Expand Energy Ties

    Published 14 July 2017 | viewed 5,532 times

    The United States and Mexico will expand their energy ties, the two countries’ energy ministers said after a meeting in Mexico. The Associated Press quoted…

  • Higher Demand For Oil Products Hits Oil Storage Providers

    Published 14 July 2017 | viewed 12,302 times

    A jump in immediate demand for oil products in Southeast Asia is affecting oil storage capacity and services providers, according to local traders who spoke…

  • U.S. To Lease 76M Acres For Oil, Gas In Gulf Of Mexico

    Published 14 July 2017 | viewed 8,667 times

    The U.S. government will offer 75.9 million acres to oil and gas exploration companies in the upcoming lease sale auction, to take place on August…

  • API Reports 62% Jump In Oil, Gas Drilling In Q2

    Published 13 July 2017 | viewed 12,616 times

    The American Petroleum Institute reported a 62-percent annual increase in oil and gas drilling in the second quarter of 2017 in the United States. For…

  • UK Proposes Relaxed Rules For Aramco IPO

    Published 13 July 2017 | viewed 3,968 times

    The UK Financial Conduct Authority, the country’s financial markets regulator, has proposed a change in rules for the listing of new companies in a bid…

  • China Reports 14% Increase In H1 Crude Oil Imports

    Published 13 July 2017 | viewed 12,133 times

    Chinese customs data has revealed that the world’s second-largest consumer of crude oil imported 8.55 million barrels of oil daily during the first half of…

  • Investors Pledge US$2B In Mexico Onshore Oil

    Published 13 July 2017 | viewed 5,407 times

    Energy companies that took part in two onshore oil and gas exploration tenders in Mexico yesterday have pledged total investments of US$2 billion for the…

  • Is A Global Oil Deficit Looming?

    Published 12 July 2017 | viewed 19,451 times

    The world is heading towards an oil deficit, if we are to believe recent headlines quoting the chief executive of Saudi Aramco, Amin Nasser. There…

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