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 …
Manas Dasgupta He was speaking at a function to celebrate the golden jubilee of the first oil find in India CAMBAY (GUJARAT): The Centre is considering a proposal to introduce dual pricing policy for diesel, Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Murli Deora has said. Speaking at a function to celebrate …
NEW DELHI: Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) is all set to begin test run of its new oil refinery at Jamnagar in Gujarat that would help boost supply of oil products.
In some ways, it is like having the midas touch: turning coal into black gold, or oil. Given that India has abundant reserves of coal, extracting oil from coal
Rakteem Katakey / New Delhi September 27, 2008, 0:17 IST The petroleum ministry has recommended that successful bidders in its proposed coal-to-liquid project should share a portion of their profits with the government, similar to what oil exploration firms are doing. The projects, located in three different coal blocks in …
NEW DELHI: The Union Petroleum and Natural Gas Ministry is likely to award 45 blocks for exploration of oil and gas in the next few days after a Committee of Secretaries finalised its report and sent the recommendations for approval to the Union Cabinet. Petroleum Secretary R. S. Pandey said …
Itanagar, Sept 25: Arunachal Pradesh has produced over eight lakh tonnes of crude oil from its oil fields located at Changlang district till date. Official sources here today said altogether 8,79,924.74 tonnes of crude oil have been extracted from the district by various oil companies since oil exploration started and …
Pune, September 24 In what could prove to be a path-breaking discovery for the Oil exploration and production business, scientists at Agharkar Research Institute (ARI), Pune have identified environment friendly bacteria that allows extraction of oil at temperatures more than 90 degrees Celsius. Even as microbial enhanced oil recovery (MEOR) …
Pune, September 23 In what could prove to be a path-breaking discovery for the oil exploration and production business, scientists at Agharkar Research Institute (ARI), Pune have identified environment friendly bacteria that allows extraction of oil at temperatures more than 90 degrees Celsius. Even as microbial enhanced oil recovery (MEOR) …
To invest $5 b in developing gas finds in the Eastern offshore KG basin blocks SETTING SIGHTS HIGH: R. S. Sharma (right), Chairman and Managing Director, ONGC, with A. K. Balyan, Director (Human Resource), addressing the media in New Delhi on Friday. NEW DELHI: Seeking to set high standards in …
First to produce crude in the private sector Crude produced will not be refined Two more wells to be drilled NEW DELHI: In a significant development, Reliance Industries has begun crude oil production from the nation
WASHINGTON: The U.S. House has approved a measure that would ease a longstanding ban on offshore oil drilling and try to spur greater use of alternative fuels as Democrats and Republicans engaged in a bitter pre-election clash over the nation's energy future. Under the Democratic legislation, adopted Tuesday night by …
For nearly two years the Opec oil cartel has watched oil prices rise with a mixture of delight and foreboding. The group that controls about 40 per cent of the world's output, but which has struggled to produce enough oil to keep up with demand, will this year earn $1,000bn …
New Delhi, Cairn India's Rajasthan fields will pump over 16 per cent more oil at 175,000 barrels per day and will contribute over one-fifth of the country's current domestic oil output, when it commences production in second half of 2009. Cairn has submitted a revised development plan for the Mangala …
Rakteem Katakey / New Delhi August 27, 2008, 0:33 IST Cairn India, a subsidiary of the UK-based Cairn Energy, may produce up to 71 per cent more oil from the Rajasthan field, according to a top company executive. The Rajasthan field is the largest oil find in the country after …
ONGC bags maximum number of blocks NEW DELHI: The latest round of New Exploration Licensing Policy (NELP)-VII has attracted an estimated investment of around $1.49 billion minimum for the oil and gas hunt in 45 blocks in Phase-I that were put on offer and subsequently bagged by domestic and international …
Press Trust Of India / New Delhi August 22, 2008, 0:52 IST The latest NELP-VII auction in Phase 1 received commitments amounting to $1.49 billion for 45 blocks, including $321.15 million for deep sea exploration, $598.255 million for exploration in shallow waters and $572.75 million for onland blocks, according to …
