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.
President Trump has, last night, signed a budget deal to raise spending and reopen the government. In its current form, the biofuels and nuclear power…
A new report by Reuters quotes internal documents that say that PDVSA has restarted imports to its Isla Curacao facility after a seven-month hiatus as…
Sunoco’s Mariner East 2 pipeline will restart construction after agreeing to a $12.6 million fine for a series of drilling fluid leaks in Pennsylvania, according…
The Forties pipeline had to be shut down for the second time in two months on Wednesday, leaving buyers worried about the infrastructure behind Britain’s…
Venezuela is now in a “deeper phase of economic stress,” Moody’s Investor Service said on Wednesday, according to The Oil and Gas Journal. Falling oil…
India’s Oil and Natural Gas Corp. will sell two state-run energy companies to raise capital for debt repayment within the next year, according to a…
The Cubiro oilfield in northern Colombia was shut down on Monday after a series of threats and attacks against the facility’s workers, the company said.…
A second day of low growth for energy stocks marks the sector’s worst Wall Street performance in 2.5 years, according to a new report by…
Total said that it has expanded its footprint in South America by investment in offshore blocks near Guyana, according to a new report by UPI.…
Iraqi forces will soon begin a plan to secure border areas near Iran in order to develop an oil export route to its neighboring country,…
Oil-for-loan deals between Beijing and Caracas are preventing American sanctions from having their full effect on Venezuela’s economy, according to David Malpass, U.S. treasury under-secretary…
Three billion dollars in settlements regarding an ongoing corruption scandal in Brazil need to be approved by the country’s parliament, including a $50 million settlement…
The Lebanese oil ministry will move forward in its much-anticipated oil and gas tender, despite the inclusion of disputed territories in some of the allotted…
A lack of raw supplies has caused the Kaduna refinery in Nigeria to shut down, according to the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC). Reuters said…
The widening gap between supply and demand for pipeline capacity linking Canada and the United States is causing higher fuel costs in North America, according…
OPEC output in January rose, despite declining production in Venezuela in the same month, a new Reuters report says. Compliance to the 2016 OPEC deal…
British Petroleum anticipates that natural gas will take over oil as the world’s main fossil fuel energy source by the year 2040, according to a…
The U.S. tax overhaul signed into law by President Donald Trump last month will boost the oil industry by $190.4 billion, according to estimates by…
The number of standoffs between the American and Iranian navies in the Persian Gulf has decreased due to an observed change in behavior by U.S.…
North Korea may be curbing its military exercises due to the United Nations’ oil embargo targeting the nuclear weapons program, according to The Wall Street…