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 Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas has been publishing its annual bulletin “Indian Petroleum & Natural Gas Statistics” since 1967 containing comprehensive information on the Oil & Gas Sector. The bulletin provides information in terms of both calendar year and financial year, to address the demands of the diverse …
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 …
Government health chiefs have admitted there is a risk to public health from exposure to emissions from shale gas extraction under the current monitoring framework. And scientists at Public Health England (PHE) admit that in the absence of regulations in the UK, drilling operators could potentially use a "wide range …
The risks to public health from emissions caused by fracking for shale oil and gas are low as long as operations are properly run and regulated, the British government's health agency said on Thursday. Public Health England (PHE) said in a review that any health impacts were likely to be …
Five surrendered discoveries to be put up for competitive bidding Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL), India's largest private sector company, might find this difficult to digest. The petroleum ministry has asked it to give up more than 80 per cent of its D6 gas block area in the Krishna-Godavari (KG) basin, …
Oil Minister M. Veerappa Moily has approved taking away five gas discoveries from Reliance Industries in the KG-D6 block over the company’s failure to meet timelines but has allowed it to retain three other finds. The five discoveries -- D4, D7, D8, D16 and D23 -- hold 0.805 trillion cubic …
The small hilly town of Pungesti in eastern Romania could be sitting on vast reserves of shale gas and U.S. energy major Chevron wants to find it. But the people of Pungesti want nothing to do with it. Though most of them live off subsistence farming, social aid and cash …
South Africa plans to issue licenses permitting exploration of shale-gas reserves in the first quarter, Mineral Resources Minister Susan Shabangu said. “Now we have a 30-day period where we are expecting to get public comments from the various parties; by early next year, it will be done,” she said in …
The government will drill four new onshore gas wells by international oil companies (IOCs) to raise output to meet the country's mounting natural gas demand, a top official said Sunday. Petrobangla has already invited bids from global firms to drill the four onshore gas wells in a state-owned field, Petrobangla …
Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC), facing a prolonged stagnancy in oil production, has got a shot in the arm with one of its blocks in the Krishna-Godavari basin off the Andhra Pradesh coast, close to Reliance Industries’ much-touted KG-D6 field, having been found to hold reserves four times the …
A Lancashire dairy farmer has joined forces with Greenpeace to launch a legal challenge to fracking in England. The environmental charity is working with people in Lancashire and the West Sussex village of Balcombe whose homes are near sites where the energy company Cuadrilla is looking at using hydraulic fracturing …
The Marcellus Shale, encompassing 104,000 square miles across Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio, and upstate New York, is the largest source of natural gas in the US. Since 2008, hydraulic fracturing has been used to release and capture the shale gas for energy consumption. The use of hydrofracking has been highly …
The statutory auditor is also looking into the pricing of gas produced from RIL's D1 and D3 fields The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India is likely to pull up the Directorate General of Hydrocarbons (DGH), as well as Reliance Industries, over an alleged hoarding of gas by the …
Bids invited based on production-linked multiple; company quoting the highest multiple to become preferred bidder Amid controversy surrounding the allocation of coal blocks to private companies, the Union Cabinet on Tuesday gave its approval for new allocation policies that would govern the auctioning of coal reserves and shale gas acreages …
The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) on Tuesday approved the much-awaited coal block auction policy for private companies that for the first time will allow companies in the power, cement and steel sectors to bid for captive coal mining rights. Under the new policy, the winning bidder will be …
The Cabinet is likely to consider on Tuesday a policy for exploration of shale oil and gas, which will initially allow state-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corporation and Oil India to tap the unconventional resource in areas they hold. The shale gas policy is listed on the agenda of the …
