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 …
Oil has played an important role in the politics of Assam and is a determining factor in the relation between the centre and the state. The right over the natural resources of Assam has been an issue of contention between the central government and Assam in post-independence India. The discovery …
The petroleum ministry on Thursday said the government is committed to adequately compensating state-owned oil marketing companies for the losses they incur on selling diesel and cooking fuel below cost.
Rutam Vora / Ahmedabad December 28, 2010, 1:24 IST Eleven companies, including international giants, have evinced interest in Oil and Natural Gas Corporation
India is all set to give its consent for an inter-governmental agreement on the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) pipeline, which will be signed in Turkmenistan at a summit meet next week. This is being termed as a major breakthrough for a project that has hardly moved beyond the drawing board for nearly …
Over the past decade, biologists working in Ecuador's Yasuni National Park and the adjoining Waorani Ethnic Reserve, a 17,000-kilometer section of the Amazon Basin that was designated a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve in 1989, have documented Yasuni's remarkable biodiversity, providing evidence that its forest has the highest number of species on …
With revenues of $22 billion, ONGC reported a profit of $4.2 billion last fiscal, which forms the basis for the Platts rankings. It had assets worth $33.37 billion. State owned Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) has beaten Chinese rival Cnooc to become Asia
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, …
NEW DELHI: Stating that the growing Indian economy would require tremendous amount of energy sources to maintain its pace, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday said India was encouraging its oil companies to acquire gas and oil assets abroad to meet the increasing demand that is likely to grow by …
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
New Delhi: The government, which was aggressively pushing for exploration of conventional oil and gas, had taken steps to tap shale gas to reduce the country's import dependence, Union Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas Murli Deora said on Sunday.
THE Tripura State Pollution Control Board has ordered public sector company, Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC), to suspend exploratory drilling at Aralia village near Agartala in mid- September. The move follows site inspection by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) that found ONGC flouting environmental norms. The company is …
Prior permission needed, it maintains; decision by the end of December. Murli Deora For the first time after the announcement of the Cairn-Vedanta deal on August 16, the government today admitted to differences with Cairn over whether the deal required approval under the production sharing contract for the Barmer oil …
Fuel price rise in June brings down subsidy burden by 45%. In what will enhance the financial performance of upstream oil companies, the subsidy burden on Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC), Oil India Ltd (OIL) and GAIL Ltd has decreased by 45 per cent in a single quarter thanks …
Kuwait firm evinced interest in partnering ONGC in bidding for blocks to be offe- red for exploration of oil and gas. Oil and Natural Gas Corp on Tuesday offered Kuwaiti national oil firm a stake in its `19,500-crore mega petrochemical project in Gujarat, even as the oil-rich Gulf nation expressed …
