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 …
Few things seem to happen at speed in this sleepy Java town where rickshaws ply the streets. But this rural area of rice fields and teak forests is set to be transformed by Indonesia's biggest oil find in years. Oil production could start to flow from the huge Cepu field …
CHENNAI: Oil India (OIL), a premier public sector undertaking, is planning to acquire stakes in oil blocks in India and abroad. It would use its huge surplus cash reserves to invest in prospective blocks in South America, Africa and Australia. In an interaction with The Hindu, OIL Director (Finance) T. …
KOCHI: The early results of the ultra-deep oil explorations in the Kerala-Konkan basin by the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation will be available in 100 days, according to ONGC Chairman and Managing Director R.S. Sharma. He was talking to journalists here on Sunday after inaugurating
By David Teather, The Guardian Tar sands extraction is disastrous to the environment, causing deforestation, requiring huge amounts of water. A long-term decline in the demand for oil could undermine the huge investments in Canadian tar sands, which have been heavily opposed by environmentalists, according to a report. The report, …
THE GOVERNMENT will relaunch the country's largest-ever auction of oil and gas blocks on August 8 and will extend the last date of bidding by two months to mid-October. The first of the promotional roadshows for 70 blocks offered under the eighth edition of New Exploration Licensing Policy (NELP) and …
NEW DELHI: Union Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Murli Deora on Monday informed the Rajya Sabha that State-run Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) would invest about $730 million in Cairn India
In recent years the legion of supporters of renewable energy has expanded to include labor unions concerned about jobs, as well as national security and energy independence experts such as George Schultz and James Woolsey. These advocates of domestic and clean energy production strongly consider the geopolitical implications when dollars …
Nigeria has failed to regulate its oil industry adequately, fuelling anger in the Niger Delta by leaving communities exposed to the effects of oil spills, gas flaring and waste dumping, Amnesty International said. Weak government oversight and a lax attitude among foreign oil firms during half a century of oil …
June 29: The Krishna-Godavari basin has been a potential zone for extraction of oil and gas for a long time. The ONGC started exploration for oil and gas in the KG Basin in April 1977, and drilled its first well near Narasapuram in 1978, and discovered gas. As part of …
June 29: The AP High Court on Monday directed the ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) to find out whether there is any possibility of land subsidence due to exploration of natural gas in the Krishna-Godavari basin. A division bench of the High Court comprising Chief Justice Anil Ramesh Dave …
June 29: The issue of land subsidence due to the over-exploitation of oil and gas, in both onshore and offshore projects, has become a contentious issue in the Krishna-Godavari basin. While environmentalists have raised concerns over land subsidence, geologists discount any such possibility. Environmentalists believe land is sinking due to …
AHMEDABAD: Oil & Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC), the country's largest oil producer, has struck oil and gas at three places in Gujarat. The new discoveries are at Nadiad and Matar in Kheda district and Charada in Mehsana district. The estimated reserves of oil and gas at these three sites are …
Arctic nations are promising to avoid new "Cold War" scrambles linked to climate change, but military activity is stirring in a polar region where a thaw may allow oil and gas exploration or new shipping routes. The six nations around the Arctic Ocean are promising to cooperate on challenges such …
Petitioners have raised the issue of land subsidence Submergence of Krishna, Godavari deltas feared HYDERABAD: A Division Bench of the High Court on Monday directed the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MOEF) to produce the applications made by proponents who are seeking to exploit the gas and oil in the …
MANGALORE: A small ceremony on Wednesday marked the commencement of work on the Mangalore chapter of the Indian Strategic Petroleum Reserves Limited (ISPRL)
