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.
Three tankers that shipped crude from Kurdistan have been blacklisted by the Iraqi State Organization for the Marketing of Oil (SOMO) in a move designed…
Multiple media outlets have reported the death of long-standing Uzbek President Islam Karimov, but no official confirmation has been given and speculation of a power…
A hearing regarding the status of the construction of the controversial Energy East Pipeline in Canada was suspended on Monday at the orders of Montreal…
Igor Sechin, CEO of Rosneft, has devised a new plan to help the Russian government close the federal budgetary gap while expanding his own energy…
A new report by the U.S. Energy Information Administration estimates that members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) earned $404 billion in net…
Berkshire Hathaway’s investment profile now includes 704,181 more shares of oil refiner Phillips 66 (PSX) common stock, according to a report by Nasdaq on Thursday.…
Rodolfo Illanes, Bolivia’s Deputy Interior Minister died on Thursday after he was taken hostage by a group of mining workers demanding mining concessions with less…
Friday’s Baker Hughes report heralded the end of eight straight weeks of U.S. oil rig gains, which boasted a net change of zero, hopefully subduing,…
Comments made by U.S. Vice President Joe Biden on Thursday indicate that the United States believed the Nord Stream 2 pipeline that would have connected…
Two weeks ago, news broke that the International Monetary Fund had reached a “tentative” agreement with Egyptian officials regarding a $12 billion loan that the…
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi announced the recapture of the Qayyara oil producing regions south of Mosul from forces loyal to the Islamic State on…
The Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador holds as many as 25.5 billion barrels of oil and 20.6 trillion cubic feet of gas, according to…
Turkish shellfire on a string of Islamic State-affiliated targets in northern Syria since Monday has paved the way for a planned ground attack on an…
The American Petroleum Institute reported a 4.464 million barrel increase in U.S. crude oil inventories in the biggest build in crude supplies in four months.…
Iraq’s new Oil Minister Jabbar Al-Luaibi has asked the multinational corporations extracting oil on Iraqi lands to increase output, following a strong push by several…
A federal judge postponed a hearing that would have determined whether protestors demonstrating against the construction of the Dakota Access pipeline should be banned from…
Kuwait saw its once-lucrative oil and gas sector shrink by 1.7 percent—in real terms—in 2015 for the third year in a row, according to preliminary…
The Russian firm Gazprom’s natural gas exports to Europe will continue to increase through the end of 2016, according to the company’s Management Committee Chairman,…
The United States oil and natural gas rig count increased by 10 over the past week, according to Baker Hughes latest weekly report. The new…
Saudi Arabian crude exports rose in June to near-record-high levels, even as the country used less petroleum to generate electricity than the same month in…