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 …
US Interior Secretary Ken Salazar heard hours of Alaskans' opinions about drilling for oil and gas off their state's shores and came away on Tuesday promising a plan to allow development while accounting for environmental risks. "I think everything is on the table. We are not prejudging the outcome of …
Pakistan has urged Iraqi oil and gas exploration companies to enter into joint ventures with Pakistan Petroleum Limited (PPL) and the Oil and Gas Development Company Limited (OGDCL) to explore oil and gas reserves in this country. Sources said that advisor to Prime Minister on Petroleum and Natural Resources, Dr …
At least four more blocks in Assam-Arakan basin including two each in Assam and Manipur have been thrown open for bidding under the NELP- VIII. At least one block of Coal Bed Methane
New Delhi: India launched its biggest-ever auction of oil and gas assets on Thursday, offering 70 exploration blocks, as it seeks to attract investors at a time of slumping global oil demand during the economic downturn. India offered 24 deepwater blocks, 28 shallow water blocks and 18 on-land blocks, with …
New Delhi: India on Thursday launched its biggest-ever auction of oil and gas blocks, expecting a $3-billion investment in exploration of 70 areas on offer for bidding. The country, dependent on imports for 75 per cent of its requirements, also offered for bidding 10 areas for extraction of gas from …
FIRST OF ITS KIND: A.K.Hazarika, Director (Onshore), ONGC (second from left),taking a look at the VAP project at the Kuthalam plant of ONGC in Nagapattinam on Wednesday. KUTHALAM (NAGAPATTINAM DISTRICT): Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) Limited is preparing deepwater east coast development project following discovery of some oilfields and …
Under the Petroleum Policy-2009, the government has allocated 50 percent job quota to the residents of each exploratory block for development and uplift of the area. According to official sources, employing the unskilled workers of the area, at local level both by the operator and its third party contractor has …
It seemed like a symbolic tipping point for the nation in August when, in the midst of record high gasoline prices and a presidential campaign, the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors abandoned its longtime opposition to offshore oil drilling. With offshore oil drilling platforms in the distance, children played …
Gujarat State Petroleum Corporation (GSPC), a Gujarat government- owned company, has made huge discovery of gas in the KG-21 well located on the western side of Deendayal West block at Krishna Godavari Basin off the Andhra Pradesh coast, official sources said.
Maulik Pathak / Ahmedabad April 02, 2009, 0:06 IST Bids for a $3 bn project to clean oil spill left in Kuwait from the 1991 Gulf War. Having decided to join the race for a $3-billion project to clean a huge oil spill in Kuwait from the 1991 Gulf War, …
Niger-Delta area of Nigeria, coincides approximately to the south-south geopolitical zone of the country. Before the discovering of the black gold (crude oil), agriculture was the dominant occupation of the people in the area. Crude oil was discovered in commercial quantity in the area in 1956. Since then exploration and …
Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) has once again shut down crude oil production at its predominantly gas-rich KG-D6 block to hook up more wells that will raise the output to a peak of 40,000 barrels per day. Reliance shut down production at the MA field on the midnight of March 22 …
In partnership with Japan, South Korea and Singapore, India must explore options for joint storage of oil reserves and setting up a financial reserve for borrowing and lending to tide over the volatility of oil prices, according to HS Puri, secretary (ER) in the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA). The …
NEW DELHI: With global economic slowdown and recession taking a toll on investments in the oil and gas industry the world over, India has decided to exercise caution and would now trim the offer of oil and blocks under NELP VIII likely to be launched by April. Earlier, the Petroleum …
Airport expansion: A German court rejected an emergency appeal to stop construction work on a new runway and terminal at Frankfurt Airport, close to Kelsterbach Forest. Environmentalists and 13 towns had sued the state of Hesse to halt the expansion project for reasons ranging from nighttime noise to threat to …
Oil and Natural Gas Corporation limited (ONGC) being an operator in the block PEL Kangra-Mandi (Himachal Pradesh) requires to carryout the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) study. The purpose of such study is to assess the environmental impacts arising due to the exploratory drilling proposed in the Kangra-Mandi block (HP). To …
