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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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  • 100% Renewable Powered Town Is The Best Place To Survive A Zombie Apocalypse

    Published 22 November 2016 | viewed 13,311 times

    The idea of a completely green community, relying exclusively on renewable energy and emitting zero harmful chemicals seems far-fetched today, despite decades of renewable power…

  • Court Hearings Begin On Alleged Shell Pollution In Nigeria

    Published 22 November 2016 | viewed 4,979 times

    The High Court of Great Britain today began a hearing on two cases brought to it by two communities from the Niger Delta alleging that…

  • OPEC Insider: ‘’Everyone Could Be On Board Today’’

    Published 22 November 2016 | viewed 19,393 times

    OPEC’s High-Level Technical Committee, which is meeting in Vienna to discuss the implementation of the proposed group-wide production cap, could be done by the end…

  • Saudi Arabia Invites Egypt To Discuss Suspended Oil Shipments

    Published 22 November 2016 | viewed 16,226 times

    Tarek El Molla, Egypt’s Oil Minister, is in Saudi Arabia for the 14th International Arab Conference for Mineral Resources, media reported, noting that El Molla…

  • U.S. LNG Is Changing The Global Gas Game

    Published 21 November 2016 | viewed 20,250 times

    In the emotion-laden aftermath of the U.S. presidential elections, the focus of all energy attention seems to be exclusively on crude oil and domestic production.…

  • Canada Has Oil For Asia, But Can’t Ship It

    Published 21 November 2016 | viewed 11,564 times

    The export market expansion ambitions of Canadian oil sands producers could soon hit a wall of capacity problems at the port of Vancouver, according to…

  • Iran And Russia Continue To Strengthen Oil Ties

    Published 21 November 2016 | viewed 14,946 times

    Three Russian companies have signed contracts for oil field development with the National Iranian Oil Company, a senior NIOC manager told media. Gholam-Reza Manouchehri, deputy…

  • Iraqi Firefighters Still Battling With ISIS Oil Fires

    Published 21 November 2016 | viewed 5,839 times

    Iraqi oil wells, which the Islamic State has been setting on fire since August in its retreat from northern Iraq, are still burning, making life…

  • Trump’s Saudi Oil Threat Is A Hollow One

    Published 20 November 2016 | viewed 20,479 times

    This week we had the questionable pleasure of reading about Saudi Arabia’s Oil Minister pointing a finger at President-elect Donald Trump for his threats to…

  • OPEC: Iran Must Cap Output At 3.9 Million Bpd

    Published 18 November 2016 | viewed 21,640 times

    OPEC’s eagerly awaited production cut agreement may have just gotten even harder to reach as OPEC members meeting in Doha are now asking Iran to…

  • Energy Sector Defaults Hit 78 Since January

    Published 18 November 2016 | viewed 7,506 times

    Some 78 energy and natural resources firms globally have defaulted so far this year, according to S&P, accounting for 53 percent of all bankruptcies worldwide…

  • Is The Trump Presidency A Boon For Nuclear Power?

    Published 17 November 2016 | viewed 28,015 times

    By now, the shock from Donald Trump’s victory in the U.S. presidential election should be starting to subside, but this is hardly the case with…

  • South Korea Considers Upping Its Investments In U.S. Oil, Gas

    Published 17 November 2016 | viewed 9,724 times

    In a somewhat rare post-U.S. election demonstration of practical thinking, South Korea’s deputy Energy Minister Woo Tae-hee advised private energy businesses in the country to…

  • OPEC Ready To Force Members To Join Cut

    Published 17 November 2016 | viewed 23,383 times

    Some OPEC members are saying OPEC will do whatever it takes to make all members join the production cut agreement that’s been chewed over since…

  • Texas Takes Cue From Oklahoma On Earthquake Risks

    Published 16 November 2016 | viewed 6,433 times

    The Texas Railroad Commissioner, Ryan Sitton, has told media that his agency will study the link between “oil and gas injection activities” and the increased…

  • Oil Inches Higher In Spite Of EIA Reported Inventory Builds

    Published 16 November 2016 | viewed 12,943 times

    After the API yesterday reported a 3.65-million-barrel increase in crude oil inventories and WTI remained relatively stable, the EIA has thrown in an official build/decline…

  • Oil Guru Sees OPEC Dissolve If Deal Fails

    Published 15 November 2016 | viewed 19,541 times

    The nearer the OPEC November 30 deadline draws, the more critical its decision gets. In fact, it may well be a case of life or…

  • Russian Economy Minister Charged With Bribery

    Published 15 November 2016 | viewed 6,492 times

    Russia’s Economy Minister Alexei Ulyukayev has been detained on charges of bribery after an ongoing investigation caught him in the act of receiving US$2 million…

  • Russia Lowers Oil Export Duties

    Published 15 November 2016 | viewed 10,438 times

    The Russian Finance Ministry announced today that the export duty for the country’s most popular Urals blend of crude oil will be lowered to US$90.40…

  • Shell Tops Ranks Of Ideal Oil, Gas Employers

    Published 15 November 2016 | viewed 5,841 times

    Shell has emerged as the number-one employer in the energy industry, according to a Rigzone survey among 8,400 respondents in more than 100 countries. This…

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