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 …
Colorado health and environment officials on Sunday approved new rules to limit air pollution from oil and gas drilling in the state, including what regulators said is the nation's first-ever plan to detect and reduce methane emissions. The new measures were adopted to reduce the release of methane during production …
OVL-OIL consortium to spend $103.2 million in two blocks that it won in August 2013 ONGC Videsh Ltd (OVL) and Oil India Ltd (OIL) have signed contracts to explore oil and gas in two areas in Bangladeshi waters. An equal joint venture of OVL, the overseas arm of state-owned Oil …
The federal auditor in 2011 accused RIL of violating the terms of contract for the KG-D6 block off the AP coast but did not talk about loss to exchequer or impact on gas price. The CAG report on a special audit of RIL books for 2006-2008, when most major equipment …
The Peruvian government has approved plans for gas company Pluspetrol to move deeper into a supposedly protected reserve for indigenous peoples and the buffer zone of the Manu National Park in the Amazon rainforest. The approval follows the government rescinding a highly critical report on the potential impacts of the …
The oil ministry that has approached the Cabinet for its approval to launch the next round of annual oil and gas block auctions is simultaneously seeking its clearance for a policy that would allow companies to apply for exploration permits at any time of the year. According to a draft …
Government moves one step closer to expand Camisea project despite concerns about impact on indigenous peoples The Peruvian government is pushing ahead with plans to expand gas operations in a supposedly protected reserve in the Amazon despite calls by the United Nations to suspend them. The company leading the operations, …
The committee led by former finance secretary Vijay Kelkar, tasked to come up with recommendations for making India energy independent, has suggested the continuation of the current production-sharing contract (PSC) model that allows cost recovery by exploration and production (E&P;) firms. This comes at a time when the government is …
Reversing the declining trend, Reliance Industries has ramped up gas production at KG-D6 fields by about 15% as it added the first production well on the eastern offshore fields in almost four years. RIL on January 2 began production from the MA-8 well to ramp up output from the KG-D6 …
The Supreme Court Monday said that the government’s decision to double the gas price from the Krishna-Godavari (K-G) basin will be subject to the court orders on the PIL led by CPI MP Gurudas Dasgupta, who has challenged the hike claiming it was done only to benefit Reliance Industries Ltd. …
In at least four states that have nurtured the nation's energy boom, hundreds of complaints have been made about well-water contamination from oil or gas drilling, and pollution was confirmed in a number of them, according to a review that casts doubt on industry suggestions that such problems rarely happen. …
STATE-RUN ONGC Videsh (OVL), vested with the key responsibility of bolstering the country’s energy security by acquiring hydrocarbon assets abroad, is adding less proven reserves to its portfolio than it is producing, going by data up to 2012-13. This, according to analysts, reflects poor selection of assets, if not an …
Pakistan has expressed its interest in oil and gas exploration in the seas off Sri Lanka, the Daily Mirror learns. At present Cairn Lanka (Private) Limited, a subsidiary of Cairn India, is engaged in oil and gas exploration work in the Mannar basin at the moment. Following the success of …
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency was criticized in an internal report for dropping charges that Range Resources Corp was polluting drinking water while "fracking" for natural gas. Range is using the hydraulic fracturing technique in Parker County, Texas where one homeowner complained in August 2010 that he could set his …
Some of the world's largest and most deadly recent earthquakes were not natural disasters at all but were caused by human activities such as mining, reservoir construction and oil and gas extraction, scientists say. A global study of hundreds of quakes by Christian Klose, a consultant geophysicist, identified 92 large …
French Environment Minister Philippe Martin reiterated his government's strong opposition to the exploitation of shale gas, despite a parliamentary report advocating more flexibility towards unconventional gas. The French government says it will not issue the permits for shale gas exploitation requested by the US company Hess Oil, Martin, the energy …
The Government of India constituted this committee under the chairmanship of Dr. Vijay Kelkar to prepare a roadmap for enhancing domestic production of oil and gas and sustainable reduction in import dependency by 2030.This report includes a discussion of the economic foundations of Exploration and Production Contracts and an early …
Poland's environment ministry will prepare a draft law to regulate the exploration and extraction of shale gas and send it to the government for approval before the end of the year, its new environment minister said. Maciej Grabowski added that speeding up the extraction of shale gas was one of …
California regulators said on Friday an enhanced monitoring regime for oil and gas production that is part of the state's new fracking regulations would shore up groundwater protection, a top concern in the growing state. The law, signed by Governor Jerry Brown in September, introduces stringent regulations of hydraulic fracturing …
After completing a transmission pipeline, officials hope to add at least 20 million cubic feet (mmcf) of gas to the national grid every day from the gas field within May next year A snapshot of a gas field Photo- Wikimedia State-run Petrobangla’s exploration wing Bapex (Bangladesh Petroleum Exploration and Production …
Three Colorado cities have rejected oil and gas production work that relies on so-called fracking, unofficial election returns showed on Wednesday in a setback for an industry that won other battles this year in Democratic strongholds like California. Boulder, Lafayette and Fort Collins passed measures with solid margins to suspend …
