Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Dr. Amit Kumar Vs State of Uttar Pradesh & Others dated 28/05/2025. The applicant has raised a grievance against setting up of a tyre pyrolysis plant by M/s Adideva Carbon LLP. According to the applicant, the tyre pyrolysis plant has …
A landmark deal reached between Russia's state-controlled gas monopoly Gazprom and three energy-rich Central Asian nations is likely to affect European consumers. On March 11, Gazprom agreed with heads of the gas companies from Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan that starting in 2009, it will pay "European market prices' for Central …
The European Union has broken through in efforts to lessen its dependence on Russian natural gas with a concrete offer of extra supplies from Turkmenistan. Benita Ferrero-Waldner, EU external relations commissioner, said the Turkmen president had last week guaranteed that 10bn cubic metres of gas a year would be available …
China yesterday signed two multibillion-dollar long-term deals to buy liquefied natural gas from Qatar, marking a milestone in Asia's evolution as the hottest market for the fuel. PetroChina struck a deal to buy 3m tonnes of LNG a year over 25 years from 2011 with Qatar and its partner, Royal …
Two of the biggest oil companies in the world, BP and ConocoPhillips, have joined forces to try to break a longstanding deadlock over the vast reserves of natural gas in Alaska. The firms said they would spend billions to build a pipeline from the North Slope to feed markets in …
Apache Corp., the US oil and gas company operating on five continents, and Santos plan to build an $800 million natural gas project in Western Australia to benefit from rising prices for the fuel. The partners have approved the Devil Creek project, which will tap gas from the offshore Reindeer …
New Delhi and Ashgabat will on Saturday sign a historic pact that would give India a footing equal to the Chinese in Turkmenistan. The MoU would open avenues for bilateral cooperation between the two countries in the upstream and downstream hydro-carbon activities. Though Turkmenistan has offered off-shore exploration blocks to …
Qatar's pioneering plant to convert natural gas to liquid fuels operated by Sasol of South Africa will continue to run at well below full capacity until the second half of this year at the earliest. The technical problems that have dogged the Oryx project, which opened last year, are further …
Better industrial performance in sight. Riding on higher output in cement, coal and electricity, the index of six core infrastructure industries grew 8.7 per cent in February 2008 against 7.6 per cent in the same month last year. This is the second-highest growth in the index during 2007-08, next to …
Cairn is interested in using part of the production potential from Ambe field for supply of compressed natural gas and piped natural gas in select markets of Gujarat. Pratim Ranjan Bose Kolkata, April 3 In an attempt to capitalise on the downstream opportunities, Cairn India is mulling entry into city …
With two proposed overland transnational pipelines through Pakistan caught in geopolitical knots, fresh efforts have been launched to revive a longburied plan of establishing an international energy lifeline under the Arabian Sea to feed gas to India's fuel-guzzling economy from West Asia. US-Tehran tensions and concerns over security situation in …
ALL new private power projects, which are at the drawing board stage, may have to kiss goodbye to their plans of developing power plants based on clean fuel like natural gas. The gas utilisation policy, which will soon receive its official stamp of approval, proposes to give the highest priority …
Gazprom, Russia's state-owned gas group, is likely to secure energy assets in Libya alongside Eni gaining a long sought entry to north African oil and gas fields and tightening its grip on European markets. Paolo Scaroni, the Eni chief executive and Alexei Miller, the head of Gazprom, discussed the idea …
Dom estic users of piped natural gas (PNG) would be first on the priority list of customers for supply of natural gas followed by essential services such as hospitals. Users of compressed natural gas (CNG), that are largely automobiles, and other consumers connected through the city gas distribution network, including …
GAIL India has signed a historic contract with the consortia of Reliance Industries, the BG Group of Britain and Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) for buying the entire quantity of gas (17.3 million standard cubic metres a day). According to an official statement here, GAIL will buy the gas …
Continuing with its golden run, Mukesh Ambani owned Reliance Industries on Tuesday announced a second gas discovery in the Krishna Godavari basin block off the Andhra Pradesh coast. The discovery was made in the block KG-DWN-2003/1, which the company had won in the fifth round of auction under the New …
GAIL India, the country's largest transporter and marketer of natural gas, today signed contracts with the operators of the field to market the entire volume of gas from the Panna-Mukta and Tapti (PMT) fields. The state-owned gas utility signed the purchase contract with Reliance Industries (RIL), British Gas India and …
Paving the way for projected investments of over $39 billion, the Petroleum and Natural Gas Regulatory Board (PNGRB) today notified the regulations for distribution of gas to households, vehicles and industries in cities. The companies would get contracts to distribute gas in cities through competitive bidding, the board said. The …
People in Quetta are facing great difficulties due to lack of Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) stations. Vehicles are seen queued in a total of three CNG stations functioning in the city. These long waits add anguish to CNG consumers' life as they have to wait for their turns. The number …
Faced with the trend of declining production, Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) is understood to have identified 14 of its major oil and gas fields for augmentation of production under the oil recovery schemes. Official sources said that 14 of the major oil and gas fields contribute nearly 80 …
