Irina is a writer for Oilprice.com with over a decade of experience writing on the oil and gas industry.
Protests against new oil and gas pipeline construction are becoming more or less part of everyday life in the U.S. and Canada. Keystone XL, Dakota…
The release of Tesla’s first affordable electric vehicle, the Model 3, marks a milestone in the EV industry that could shave off 300,000 barrels per…
Simon Kukes, a former head of Russian state-owned oil and gas company Yukos, has spent over US$150,000 on Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, adding to a…
The pipelines carrying Canadian heavy crude to the U.S. are running at capacity and soon, more oil will have to start being transported by railway…
Shell’s Nigerian division has shut down one of the two pipelines that carry Bonny light crude to its Forcados terminal in the Niger Delta, saying a…
A deal between the operators of the Leviathan oil and gas field off the Israeli coast and Jordan Electric Power Company has just turned Israel…
The United Arab Emirates will start publishing weekly inventory data for its Fujairah port in a bid to enhance transparency and help turn the Indian…
The Niger Delta Avengers announced yesterday that they have bombed the Bonny pipeline, which carries crude to the Shell-operated Forcados terminal. The militant group had…
Saudi Arabia is ready to reduce its crude oil output if Iran agrees to freeze its own at current levels, anonymous sources have told Reuters.…
Maersk Oil is well-placed to not just survive but thrive after its split from its parent, Danish logistics conglomerate AP Moeller Maersk, according to analysts.…
The richest man in Hong Kong, billionaire Li Ka-shing, has placed a bid for the gas distribution network of UK’s National Grid. The utility is…
It all looked so promising: Saddam Hussein is overthrown, post-war Iraq needs help with getting back on its feet, and foreign oil companies are quick…
Gazprom Neft launched commercial-scale production at the Messoyakha field, the northernmost land oilfield in the world, in the Russian Arctic. The field has swallowed US$1.3…
The Islamic State is digging a moat around its biggest stronghold in Iraq, Mosul, in preparation for an expected attack from the Iraqi army and…
The last couple of years have been tough for international oil companies operating in Nigeria: depressed prices and a wave of militant attacks on infrastructure…
Russia’s Lukoil will start commercial-scale production at the Filanovsky oilfield in the Caspian Sea before the end of the month, the company said. There are…
The Seadelta tanker bound for Italy, has finally left the port of Ras Lanuf. This is the first export cargo of crude oil from Libya…
Crude oil inventories last week fell by 6.2 million barrels to 504.6 million barrels, the EIA reported, a day after the American Petroleum Institute estimated…
Brazil’s state-owned energy giant Petrobras said in a regulatory filing it will be spending US$74.1 billion over the next five years—a 25-percent reduction on the…
Norway’s state-owned oil company Statoil has celebrated the five-billionth barrel of crude extracted from the North Sea Statfjord field, where production began in 1979. The…