Indian oil market outlook to 2030
The Report looks in-depth at how India’s role on the global oil market may evolve over the period through to 2030. It examines investment plans for the refining and petrochemical industry and how these
Oil
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Ethanol car project turns turtle
Proalcohol, the world's biggest project on alternative fuels to run cars is in danger of being wound up.
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A bonus for the middle class consumer
FINANCE Minister Manmohan Singh has presented a budget that seeks to push the economy from stabilisation to growth, through structural adjustments. In order to give a boost to exporters, he has moved
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'Values of our society lead to disaster'
In 1972, Dennis Meadows had co authored the well known report, Limits to Growth, along with Donella Meadows and Jorgen Randers. Recently, the same team came out with a sequel, Beyond the Limits. In this interview, Meadows talks about the new insights that
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Oilwell fires
THE WORLD Meteorological Organisation (WMO) has gone on record officially that oilwell fires in Kuwait have had no global effect on the atmosphere. At WMO's recent meeting in Geneva with
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Unhappy compromise over atmosphere
Though the bracketed chapter on atmosphere was resolved in Rio, OPEC nations continue to feel dissatisfied
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Saudi Arabia wants higher prices for oil
Faced with European proposals for higher taxes on oil, Saudi Arabia is signalling desperately that it wants higher prices. This makes a change from its earlier policy of restrained oil pricing. This
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Report of the high powered committee on financial position of oil companies
The Prime Minister has constituted a high powered committee under the chairmanship of Shri B K Chaturvedi, Member, Planning Commission, to examine the financial position of oil companies.
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Strategy for development of alternative sources of oil and gas: standing committee on petroleum & natural gas (2008-09)
This report of the standing committee on petroleum and natural gas deals with the action taken by the Government on the recommendations contained in the 17th report (14th Lok Sabha) of the standing committee on petroleum & natural gas (2007-2008) on
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The resilience of the Indian economy to rising oil prices as a validation test for a global energy-environment-economy CGE model
This paper proposes to test the global hybrid computable general equilibrium model IMACLIM-R against macroeconomic data. To do so, it compares the modeled and observed responses of the Indian economy to the rise of oil price during the 2003-2006 period.
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Access to sustainable energy: what role for international oil and gas companies?
Development experts agree that ensuring access to sustainable modern energy services is critical to achieving the Millennium Development Goals. Some 2.4 billion people still use traditional biomass fuels for cooking, often facing the risk of indoor air pollution, while about 1.6 billion people have no access to electricity. This report explores how international oil and