The 2025 Interconnected Disaster Risks report shifts focus from diagnosing problems to mapping out solutions. It establishes that many of today’s solutions are surface-level fixes, and that to create lasting change, we need to question the societal structures and mindsets that perpetuate these challenges. The report offers a more holistic …
ONGC has announced a significant gas discovery in Tripura, which is part of the Assam-Arakan Basin. The success of this well gives impetus to exploration of more such areas on the flanks of major structures in Tripura fold belt, the company stated after a board meeting. The discovery has been …
As Royal Dutch Shell and other oil companies prepare to drill offshore in the Alaskan Outer Continental Shelf (OCS), a new report commissioned by the Washington, DC–based Pew Environment Group concludes current response capabilities aren’t adequate to contain and clean up a major spill in the area.1 Marilyn Heiman, who …
PANIPAT: Union Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Jaipal Reddy on Tuesday dedicated to the nation India's largest naphtha cracker plant at Indian Oil Corporation's (IOCs) Panipat Complex. The complex has been commissioned in 46 months, which compares with the global standard for similar capacity plants and is ahead of average …
On 1 February 2011, A.K. Hazarika took over as chairman and managing director of Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC). With this move, Hazarika would be heading one of India
MUMBAI: A major fire broke out at the Indian Oil Corporation depot at Taloja in Navi Mumbai in the wee hours today, destroying around 40,000 litres of lubricant oil. The fire broke out at around 1 AM and about 25-30 fire engines were rushed to the spot to douse the …
It's time the petroleum ministry faced the challenges of oil pricing reforms, instead of hiding behind the oil firms A K Bhattacharya / New Delhi January 18, 2011, 0:14 IST A quick estimate suggests that international crude oil prices for Indian refineries (or what oil industry experts refer to as …
The U.S. offshore drilling chief on Thursday said he would be "stunned" if no new deepwater drilling permits were approved during the first half of year, as he pledged to push forward with reforms despite industry opposition. Michael Bromwich, head of the Interior Department's Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, pushed …
More than a century ago, a prominent chapter in world history was being inserted in a remote corner of Assam amidst the dense and malaria-infested jungles by a band of intrepid pioneers searching for black gold. The then Indian-based Italian engineers commissioned by the Assam Railways and Trading Company (ARTC) …
With New Delhi gradually losing interest in the proposed Iran-Pakistan-India (IPI) gas pipeline, the prospects of China replacing India in the ambitious project are brightening. India is now marshalling all its resources to ensure an early fruition of the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) to meet its growing demand for natural gas, sources …
An integrated study using remote sensing and multi geophysical data was carried out over parts of Deccan Syneclise, for eliminating the inherent ambiguities associated with each of the individual methods, and to understand the hydrocarbon prospects. The subsurface sections constructed using geophysical data such. as gravity, electrical resistivity, deep resistivity …
The world's primary conservation body, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), on January 7 called on British listed companies, SOCO and Dominion, to abandon their oil exploration plans in the Virunga National Park located in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The WWF warned that these actions will undermine decades of work …
High-level government delegation to visit Champang oil fields KOHIMA, Jan 7: The Cabinet Sub-Committee for Oil Exploration set up by the Government of Nagaland will undertake an official visit to Champang village, commencing from January 8. The visit of the high-powered committee is significant coming as it does against the …
THE government has indefinitely deferred a hike in diesel rates despite soaring crude oil prices to prevent a further increase in prices, particularly of food items, Petroleum Minister Murli Deora said. Oil marketing companies are demanding higher prices because crude oil has been trading at about $90 a barrel for …
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 …
