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.
Russian gas giant Gazprom is looking to purchase assets from BG Group that Shell bought earlier this year, the Business Insider said. The firm’s Deputy…
Norway’s oil and gas regulator has authorized Statoil to begin operations in the Norwegian areas of the North Sea, according to a report by Offshore…
TransCanada Corp announced a new joint venture in Mexico on Monday, through which it will help build and operate a $2.1 billion natural gas pipeline…
Oil prices could surge above $85 a barrel by the end of this year, according to analysis by Michael Rothman, considered to be one of…
Empresa Nacional del Petroleo of Chile has signed a contract with ConocoPhillips (COP) to jointly explore and exploit oil and gas deposits in the Magallanes…
An Algerian Cabinet reshuffle has ousted the freshman oil minister who had held the position for just over a year, replacing him with the head…
Earlier this year, Oilprice.com reported on the gloomy outlook for North Sea oil and gas, concluding that over 100 oil fields could be shuttered over…
For the first time in 20 years, Oman has sold international bonds in order to stop the effects of a crippling budget deficit caused by…
BP Plc, which operates in Norway, agreed to a US$1.3 billion merger with its Norwegian counterpart Det Norske Oljeselskap, in a move slated to cut…
After sidelining offshore exploration in the Adriatic Sea, the Croatian government has awarded two firms contracts for four onshore oil and gas exploration blocks in…
This week’s rig count by Baker Hughes shows the United States’ tally up by six rigs - the second week in a row the domestic…
Twenty-four people perished from Islamic State-claimed twin bombings in the Iraqi capital on Thursday as local government forces come closer to recapturing the terrorist group’s…
A new announcement by electric car manufacturer Tesla on Thursday indicates the company will be offering two cheaper versions of its new Model S electric…
Last month, the Israeli company that was authorized to drill in the $320 million Hatrurium oil reservoir in the Dead Sea confirmed that the find…
A new natural gas discovery on the coast of Egypt’s Nile Delta has been made by Eni and British Petroleum (BP). The two companies own…
An explosion on Wednesday in Iraq rocked a pipeline that had previously been used to transfer oil from a field near Kirkuk to the Ceyhan…
The Ultimate Warriors of the Niger Delta, a new militant group operating from its namesake river delta, is demanding that the Nigerian government give 60…
Royal Dutch Shell has restarted purchasing crude oil from Iran, according to trade sources and ship-tracking data cited by Reuters. The company’s resumption of business…
The Spanish oil and gas company Repsol will be abandoning all 93 of its drilling leases in the Chukchi Sea by the end of the…
ConocoPhillips has announced it will restart production at the Surmount oil sands project, as the northern Alberta wildfire threat subsides. The company said the minor…