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.
In Iran, as it is in many Persian Gulf states, oil is the sole economic backbone. It provides federal revenues for basic goods and services…
Tesla began manufacturing its solar powered shingles for mass market release, according to CEO Elon Musk’s Tuesday email reported by Bloomberg. Musk introduced the concept…
World oil demand in 2018 is set to grow by an additional 100,000 barrels per day, according to the latest revision to the figure by…
Analysts are saying that the oil and gas industry’s response to the Trump administration’s announcement last week—that almost all of the U.S. continental shelf may…
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said that he ordered the first 100 million units of its new oil-backed Petro—Venezuela’s cryptocurrency creation. Each Petro unit will be…
Guyana’s nascent oil and gas industry just gained a new discovery: ExxonMobil’s drilling team found 230 feet of high-quality, oil-bearing reservoir just outside the Liza…
Canadian crude oil exports fell 2.4 percent in November as the United States dropped imports from its northern neighbor to 3.26 million barrels per day,…
The past week of continuous record low temperatures and snowfall has oil-dependent power plants in the northeast scrambling to secure supplies of some of the…
The U.S. Department of interior is set to replace the Obama administration’s five-year oil and gas leasing plan on key bodies of water with federal…
A new investigation by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) says the Obama administration took an inconsistent amount of time to approve applications for seismic testing…
A gas pipeline fire has caused parts of Nigeria’s electric grid to shut down, according to an announcement by the ministry of power on Wednesday.…
Sunoco received a halt construction order from Pennsylvania environmental officials on Wednesday for a natural gas pipeline the southern half of the state due to…
Saudi Arabia’s Energy Minister Khalid al-Falih expects to sign two new nuclear reactor contracts by the end of next year, according to a new report…
British Petroleum CEO Bob Dudley sees 2017 as a recovery year after a period of crisis that devastated the company’s bottom line, according to a…
Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) is now open for drilling as a result of a recent congressional vote on the issue, which ended over…
The French legislature passed a law prohibiting all oil and gas exploration and production within its borders and territories by the year 2040—right around when…
Iraq began to rebuild its largest oil refinery this week, jumpstarting an effort to reconstruct the country after a three-year war with the terroristic Islamic…
Oil producers in Canada are having trouble finding rail space for their commodity due to a pipeline shutdown that caused a backup in Alberta tank…
Short sellers, beware. Famed short trader Jim Chanos believes that Tesla shares are “headed for a brick wall” in the near future, according to a…
An Oslo-based pension fund will divest investments made in oil sands and coal extraction ventures, according to a new report by Pensions&Investments. The $70.8 billion…