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 …
The cabinet committee on economic affairs at a meeting on Monday approved the proposal to sign the Production Sharing Contract with ConocoPhillips for oil and gas exploration and extraction in the Bay of Bengal, said Cabinet Division joint secretary Mohammad Nurul Karim. Petrobangla will now send the proposal to the …
Petroleum Minister Dr Asim Hussain on Friday approved Tight Gas Policy, saying that the government is focussing on exploration and extraction of gas in the country to overcome energy shortage. He was chairing a meeting of heads of gas exploration companies. Dr Asim said that the 2009 Gas Policy would …
The Senate blocked a move by Republicans to speed domestic offshore oil and natural gas drilling on Wednesday, a fresh sign of congressional gridlock on energy issues even as drivers endure gasoline prices near $4 a gallon. Republicans only got 42 of the 60 votes needed to consider a bill, …
Environmental regulators on Thursday directed six natural gas drillers to disclose how they dispose of or recycle waste water in Pennsylvania after a recent Chesapeake Energy Corp accident. A regional office of the Environmental Protection Agency asked Chesapeake, Chevron-owned Atlas Resources, Talisman Energy USA, Range Resources, Cabot Gas and Oil …
The U.S. offshore drilling regulator has approved a Royal Dutch Shell plan for deepwater oil and gas exploration in the Gulf of Mexico. Shell's exploration plan included five proposed exploratory wells more than 7,000 feet under water, as well as three previously approved wells about 72 miles from Louisiana . …
Trees in the Arctic region may grow 500 km (300 miles) further north by 2100 as climate change greens the barren tundra and causes sweeping change to wildlife, a leading expert said. A quickening melt of snow, ice and permafrost will enable more southerly species such as pine trees or …
A controversial natural gas production technique, which is key to a century of U.S. domestic supply, is causing contamination of drinking water, a report released by the National Academy of Sciences said on Monday. Scientists from Duke University collected 68 drinking water samples which showed potentially harmful levels of methane …
Directional drilling and hydraulic-fracturing technologies are dramatically increasing natural-gas extraction. In aquifers overlying the Marcellus and Utica shale formations of northeastern Pennsylvania and upstate New York, we document systematic evidence for methane contamination of drinking water associated with shale-gas extraction.
The state of Maryland plans to sue the company that operated a gas well that ruptured in Pennsylvania, spilling fluids into a fresh water tributary that eventually flows into the Chesapeake Bay, Maryland's attorney general said on Wednesday. The well in Bradford County blew out on April 19, spilling "thousands …
The purpose of this Tight Gas Exploration & Production Policy 2011 (Policy) is to establish the policies, procedures, tax and pricing regime in respect of exploration and production of tight gas in Pakistan.
It is a common belief that China’s CO2 emissions will continue to grow throughout this century and will dominate global emissions. The findings from this research suggest that this will not necessarily be the case because saturation in ownership of appliances, construction of residential and commercial floor area, roadways, railways, …
BEIJING: China has joined the world's elite club of offshore oil producers after China National Offshore Oil Corp (CNOOC) announced that its oil and natural gas output surpassed 60 million metric tonnes in 2010. The country's largest offshore oil explorer's oil and gas production last year totalled 64.13 million metric …
Rutam Vora / Ahmedabad December 28, 2010, 1:24 IST Eleven companies, including international giants, have evinced interest in Oil and Natural Gas Corporation
Gireesh Chandra Prasad Global oil and gas field services majors Schlumberger and Halliburton are likely to be technology partners for India in its ambitious programme to explore shale gas, a new source of energy, from next year.
Mumbai, Nov. 29: Bharat Petroleum Corp Ltd (BPCL) and Videocon Industries annou-nced a major natural gas discovery in the offshore space in Mozambique on Monday. This is the fifth significant hydrocarbon find by the consortium of the public sector oil firm and the household appliance major. In all these cases, …
India and the US have signed an agreement for cooperation in the field of shale gas. The memorandum (MoU), signed in Mumbai on Saturday, will enable India to commence exploration for this and reduce its heavy dependence on imported energy sources.
New Delhi: ONGC plans to invest over $10 billion to develop its new gas field in the KG basin for production. ONGC aims to develop the KG basin through four different projects. "We are targeting 25-30 million standard cubic meters per day of natural gas production by 2014-15," DK Pandey, …
Oil exploration and production companies are counted among the bad boys when it comes to environmental damage. Perhaps to undo that image, especially in the year of BP
