Zainab Calcuttawala is an American journalist based in Morocco. She completed her undergraduate coursework at the University of Texas at Austin (Hook’em) and reports on international trade, human rights issues and more.
U.S. crude inventories collapsed by 12 million barrels this week, marking the largest inventory draw since January 1999, according to analysis of this week’s American…
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan dropped hints on Wednesday that the United States and Turkey were prepared to invade Raqqa, Syria - the Islamic State’s…
Oilfield services, shipbuilders and other industries that rose with the pre-2014 oil price boom have had it hard. Since barrel rates fell, their previous patrons…
The Houston-based oil firm Apache announced a massive new discovery on Wednesday, which it claims could supply every refiner on the Gulf Coast of the…
Royal Dutch Shell announced on Tuesday that it started production in its ultra deepwater fields in the Gulf of Mexico, according to an official statement…
Statoil informed its employees via its companywide intranet that all employees would receive an offer to apply for severance packages, according to a report by…
Texas’ drilling companies added 100 jobs in July, marking the first monthly increase of the kind in the state’s energy sector for 19 straight months,…
The fight over the fate of the 1,168-mile Dakota Access pipeline (DAPL) intensified on Saturday, when a clash between private security agents defending the construction…
Labor Day weekend gas prices have hit a 12-year low this year, according to a report by the U.S. Energy Information Administration on Friday. Thanks…
Over 11,700 Petrobras employees signed up to get fired through the Brazilian energy firm’s voluntary dismissal program, according to a new report by Bloomberg. The…
Iraq and the semi-autonomous region of Kurdistan have restarted joint exports of crude from the Kirkuk oil field, after the two parties reached a preliminary…
The number of active oil and gas rigs in the United States increased by eight sites this past week, which marked the return of modest…
Royal Dutch Shell has begun participating in Mexico’s massive hedge against low oil prices in 2017, according to four sources cited by Bloomberg on Thursday.…
“Secret” exceptions to the terms of the Iranian nuclear deal have allowed Iran to evade some of the restrictions negotiated by the United States and…
The American manufacturing industry declined in August after five consecutive months of growth as producers deal with the consequences of low oil prices and a…
Kirkuk will not allow the Iraqi government to ship its fuel to Iran via trucks if negotiations between the Kurdish Regional Government and Baghdad over…
A series of news reports coming out of Norway claim to connect a Norwegian shipping company that operates seismic vessels for the oil industry to…
The Norwegian oil and gas industry will see $50 billion less in capital investment from 2016-2020 than previously forecasted as a result of cancelled or…
Tokyo Electric Power Co. Holdings Inc.’s (TEPCO) plan to restart the defunct Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant has an increased chance of being implemented after the…
This week’s report from the American Petroleum Institute (API) estimates a 942,000 barrel build in U.S. crude supplies, in line with expectations. S&P Global Platts…