Tsvetana Paraskova

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• Will EV’s Break The Grid?

  Published 16 August 2017 | viewed 13,605 times

  While the UK government has vowed to end the sale of all new conventional gasoline and diesel cars by 2040, as part of a wider…

• Analysts See OPEC Compliance Erode In H2 2017

  Published 16 August 2017 | viewed 8,917 times

  OPEC’s compliance with the output cuts will continue to slip in the second half this year, despite recent rhetoric reiterating the cartel members’ commitment to…

• Accounting Firm To Pay $6.2M In SEC Oil Audit Charges

  Published 16 August 2017 | viewed 4,101 times

  Accounting firm KPMG has agreed to pay more than US$6.2 million to settle SEC charges that it had overlooked grossly overstated values of the assets…

• Libya Boosts Oil Output At Biggest Field

  Published 16 August 2017 | viewed 9,699 times

  Libya is returning with more barrels to the market after its biggest oil field started raising production and an export terminal re-opened for tanker loading. …

• Wonder Woman Gets Power Boost From Oil Group

  Published 16 August 2017 | viewed 6,327 times

  One usually doesn’t associate the right-wing platform-backing Koch brothers with liberal Hollywood, but they liked the idea of Wonder Woman enough to back the blockbuster…

• Can Oil Sanctions Cripple North Korea’s Army?

  Published 15 August 2017 | viewed 11,178 times

  In response to Pyongyang’s latest nuclear missile tests, the world is stepping up sanctions on North Korea with bans on its mining, manufacturing, and seafood…

• Libyan Oil Liberator Aims To Boost Russian Ties

  Published 15 August 2017 | viewed 5,096 times

  In a sign that Libya’s powerful military is moving closer to Russia, Libyan National Army (LNA) commander Khalifa Haftar—the man responsible for recapturing the country’s…

• Iran Boosts S. Korea Oil Market Share While Saudis Cut

  Published 15 August 2017 | viewed 5,349 times

  Iran continues to raise market share in Asia, with crude sales to South Korea increasing by 26.5 percent on the year in July, while Saudi…

• Oil Prices Fall To 3-Week Lows On Flurry Of Bearish News

  Published 15 August 2017 | viewed 14,590 times

  Oil prices continued to fall on Tuesday morning, following a sell-off on Monday triggered by a stronger U.S. dollar, concerns over growing supply from non-OPEC…

• Oil Tycoon Pushes For Venezuela Sanctions

  Published 14 August 2017 | viewed 19,772 times

  The U.S. has stepped up sanctions against Venezuelan individuals in the wake of the July vote in Venezuela aimed at rewriting the constitution, which is…

• China’s Refinery Run Rates At 10-Month Low

  Published 14 August 2017 | viewed 10,896 times

  At 10.71 million bpd, China’s crude refineries saw in July their lowest daily throughput rate since September last year as state firms and independent refineries,…

• Aramco IPO Value May Be Much Lower Than Expected

  Published 14 August 2017 | viewed 10,518 times

  While most international analysts have already said that the value of Saudi Aramco in next year’s IPO would not be close to the Saudi target…

• OPEC Reference Basket Oil Price Drops By $1.33 In One Day

  Published 14 August 2017 | viewed 16,517 times

  The price of the OPEC basket of 14 crude varieties of its members dropped to US$49.37 a barrel on Friday from US$50.70 the previous day,…

• Mexico Becomes Increasingly Important For U.S. Energy Exports

  Published 14 August 2017 | viewed 5,302 times

  U.S. energy sales account for more than 50 percent of Mexico’s current energy imports as Mexican energy reforms open the market and as the country…

• Little-Known Driller Dives Into Perilous Venezuelan Oil Market

  Published 13 August 2017 | viewed 12,311 times

  Two weeks before he held a vote to set up an assembly to re-write the constitution—further undermining democracy—Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro hosted the signing of…

• Nigerian Protesters Storm Shell Crude Oil Flow Station

  Published 11 August 2017 | viewed 13,436 times

  Hundreds of Nigerians stormed on Friday a Shell-owned crude flow station that feeds the Bonny export terminal, protesting against lack of jobs and demanding infrastructure…

• OPEC/Non-OPEC Overproduce 470,000 Bpd Above Commitment

  Published 11 August 2017 | viewed 6,617 times

  Stronger-than-expected oil demand growth may be tilting the market to rebalancing, but confidence in any sustained rebalancing is suppressed on the back of OPEC and…

• Saudi Crown Prince Favors New York Over London For Aramco IPO

  Published 11 August 2017 | viewed 6,185 times

  Even though Saudi Arabia’s advisors are favoring London over New York for the foreign venue to list Aramco shares, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman and…

• Saudi Arabia: Deeper Cuts Are Still On The Table

  Published 11 August 2017 | viewed 14,509 times

  OPEC and its non-OPEC partners have not closed the door to the possibility of extending the production cut agreement or even lowering production levels, Saudi…

• Global Nuclear Power Capacity Could Double By 2050

  Published 10 August 2017 | viewed 16,026 times

  The world’s installed nuclear power capacity could increase by 123 percent in 2050 compared to 2016 levels, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said in…