Irina Slav

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• Is America’s Oil Industry Too Big To Fail?

  Published 29 July 2021 | viewed 6,370 times

  The Biden administration is making strides in reducing the United States’ dependence on fossil fuels for its energy needs. The federal government’s post-pandemic plan involves…

• Oil Market Still Far From Being Back To ‘Normal’

  Published 29 July 2021 | viewed 6,762 times

  Worry about oil demand sparked by the resurgence of Covid-19 in some parts of the world and a fund selloff in oil futures has reversed…

• Can The Biden Administration Meet Its Ambitious Offshore Wind Power Target?

  Published 29 July 2021 | viewed 1,160 times

  Earlier this year, the Biden administration said it planned to build offshore wind power generation capacity to the tune of 30 GW by 2030, creating…

• India’s Renewable Industry To See $150 Billion Of Investment By 2030

  Published 29 July 2021 | viewed 656 times

  India’s renewable energy industry could see equity investments of some $150 billion by 2030, according to Gaurav Singhal, managing director at Bank of America’s Indian…

• Total, Equinor To Quit Venezuela Venture

  Published 29 July 2021 | viewed 2,489 times

  French TotalEnergies and Norwegian Equinor will exit their oil joint venture with PDVSA, Bloomberg has reported, citing unnamed sources familiar with the matter. TotalEnergies held…

• Shell Reports $5.5 Billion Net Profit And Hikes Dividends

  Published 29 July 2021 | viewed 7,957 times

  Anglo-Dutch Shell reported a net profit of $5.5 billion for the second quarter of the year on the back of stronger oil prices and said…

• Russia Was World’s Second-Largest Oil Producer In H1 2021

  Published 28 July 2021 | viewed 1,578 times

  Russia was the world’s second-largest producer in the first five months of this year after the United States, data from Rosstat, the state statistics bureau,…

• Oil Prices Boosted By Falling Crude Inventories

  Published 28 July 2021 | viewed 5,674 times

  Crude oil prices rose today after the Energy Information Administration reported an inventory draw of 4.1 million barrels for the week to July 23. This…

• Japan Energy Transition Threatens LNG Demand

  Published 27 July 2021 | viewed 3,926 times

  Japan’s ambitious energy shift to renewables is threatening future demand for liquefied natural gas as the country is the world’s largest importer of the commodity,…

• Iraq Wants Other U.S. Oil Company To Replace Exxon

  Published 27 July 2021 | viewed 10,903 times

  Iraq wants another U.S. company to replace Exxon as a shareholder in the West Qurna 1 field, one of the country's largest after the supermajor…

• The EV Battery Conundrum: Commodity Rally Could Reverse Cost Curve

  Published 26 July 2021 | viewed 5,732 times

  At the end of last year, BloombergNEF reported that the price of electric vehicle batteries had for the first time fallen to $100 per kWh.…

• China Strikes Back At EU For Carbon Border Tax

  Published 26 July 2021 | viewed 1,729 times

  The European Union is breaching trade principles with its proposal to impose a so-called carbon border tax that would push up the prices of non-EU…

• Chinese Refiner Reportedly Dodged $2 Billion In Fuel Taxes

  Published 26 July 2021 | viewed 2,090 times

  An independent Chinese refiner may have avoided paying some $2 billion in taxes by falsifying the kind of fuels it sells, Bloomberg has reported, citing…

• The Net-Zero Narrative Is Riddled With Holes

  Published 25 July 2021 | viewed 4,782 times

  When the International Energy Agency released its Roadmap to Net Zero report, OPEC slammed it as “destabilizing.” Russia said the IEA’s plan could push oil…

• U.S. Shale Sees Light At The End Of The Tunnel

  Published 22 July 2021 | viewed 12,656 times

  The U.S. oil and gas sector is recovering from last year’s market slump. But unlike the previous boom-and-bust cycles, the industry has held off on…

• VC Firms Are Pouring Billions Of Dollars Into Green Tech

  Published 22 July 2021 | viewed 2,528 times

  ESG investing: it's in every media outlet and on every bank's business plan. A rush to what many call alignment of values with investment goals…

• The Renewable Energy Waste Crisis Is Much Worse Than You Think

  Published 22 July 2021 | viewed 6,089 times

  Waste disposal is not a popular topic of discussion in the media when it comes to renewable energy. Most of the coverage that solar and…

• Oil Dips After EIA Reports Crude Inventory Build

  Published 21 July 2021 | viewed 7,162 times

  Crude oil prices briefly dipped after the Energy Information Administration reported a crude oil inventory build of 2.1 million barrels for the week to July 16.…

• Why We Can't Afford To Turn Our Backs On Fossil Fuels

  Published 19 July 2021 | viewed 12,941 times

  When President Biden served the death blow to the Keystone XL pipeline this January, environmentalists rejoiced. Canadian oil exports to the United States, however, did…

• The Oil Industry Is Borrowing Again, But This Time It’s Different

  Published 18 July 2021 | viewed 12,535 times

  Two years ago, Wall Street banks were on their way out of a long-term relationship with the oil industry. Now, with oil prices over $70…