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 developments may impact Indian crude and product net trade. The Report looks at energy transition trends …
a dark cloud is fast approaching the night sky of Chhattisgarh. The emergency briefing on the other side of the globe by the director of Convoluted Intelligence Agency (cia) just got over. President Push paced up and down in his Elliptical Room, this crisis is a bit confusing. Outside the …
The us government wants to open more public land to oil and natural gas production. The interior department has quit conducting environmental reviews and seeking comments from local residents every time drilling companies propose new wells. Officials have been directed to issue permits based on past studies of a project, …
August 2005 was another rough time for oil major Shell Oil's Nigeria operation. Frustrated over lack of adequate compensation by the company for a devastating oil spill in December 2003, host communities shut down two of Shell's pumping stations that produce around 40,000 barrels of oil daily. While Shell admitted …
fishy plant: A team of Australian scientists has created a plant that yields the highly beneficial long-chain omega-3 fatty acids usually found in fish oil. Allan Green of CSIRO, an Australian research organisation in Canberra, and his team have developed a type of thale cress (Arabidopsis thaliana) by inserting genes …
us scientists have found an ingenious use for empty plastic bottles. Instead of disposing them in landfills, the non-biodegradable waste can be used to make engine oil for cars, say researchers at the University of Kentucky and the Chevron Energy Technology Company. They converted the plastic bottles into high-grade oil, …
India's total energy requirement has doubled over the last three decades: from 147.05 million tonnes of oil equivalent (mtoe) to 437.69 mtoe. I t's of course well known that indiscriminate burning of hydrocarbon fuels causes much global warming. According to several press reports, several Europeans died of oppressive heat last …
Nigeria's army has been accused of killing at least 30 people and setting ablaze many houses while investigating an oil dispute between two communities. The communities living in the neighbouring towns of Odioma and Obioku in southern Niger Delta claim ownership of a patch of swampland, Owukubu, where oil giant …
It's 7 am. T here is little traffic on the usually busy highway that bestrides the Noida Industrial Area, on the outskirts of Delhi. A dark, frail person in a grimy shirt walks towards a drain; he has a jerry can in his hand. This is Ramkaran, originally from Mau-Aimma …
danger spilling out: Mexico's oil monopoly Pemex recently confirmed the fifth fuel spill in the past four months, even as authorities quoted a requirement of US $9 billion to repair the country's degenerating oil pipeline network. Media reports said nearly 45,000 litres of oil spilled in the latest incident near …
China recently lost a crucial energy battle to Japan. The Russian government announced the construction of a "system of pipelines' from its Siberian oilfields to the Pacific Ocean opposite Japan. Both Japan and China wanted the pipeline to be routed through their lands. But Russia decided in favour of Japan …
Tell us about the science and technology priorities of your government Our resources are meagre, so we consider it prudent to concentrate on a few critical areas: microelectronics, capital goods, biotechnology, biodiesel and pharmaceuticals. Currently, we spend less than 1 per cent of our gross domestic product (gdp) on science …
What happens if political ambition clashes with business interest? Bolivia would know. The country is witnessing a growing disapproval of oil companies and President Carlos Mesa is desperate to maintain his popularity. Encouraged by a recent referendum on gas exports, Mesa's government is drafting a new hydrocarbons bill that has …
This month, even as the Russian cabinet approved the Kyoto Protocol and sent it on to parliament for ratification, the price of oil crossed US $50 per barrel - a 60 per cent increase in the price of this all-crucial commodity, in this year itself. I would have thought that, …
THE Russian president, Vladimir Putin, has decided to ratify the Kyoto Protocol (it seeks to stabilise greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere). That should soon propel the languishing pact into force, making it international law, once he has sought the Russian Duma's approval (see Almost there). But the pact would …
India is joining hands with China and Japan in an attempt to unite countries of the region against West Asian oil producers. The latter are charging an extra us $1 for every barrel of crude oil they sell to these countries. This is over and above the prices at which …
