Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "2 killed in blast at illegal cracker unit in Thanjavur appearing in The Hindu dated 19.05.2025". The application is registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled 2 killed in blast at illegal cracker unit …
‘DG Shipping guidelines for granting licence to LNG vessels should be kept in abeyance' Keeping in mind the continued shortfall in domestic gas production and the mounting demand for gas, an inter-Ministerial Committee has pitched for flexibility in transportation of LNG and keeping in abeyance the guidelines of Director-General (Shipping) …
Oil companies engaged in drilling and exploration activities, power projects, coal and cement industries, besides developers of national highway in both public and private sectors have emerged as major environmental violators in the North-east. In a Question Hour discussion on Tuesday, Minister of State for Environment and Forest Jayanthi Natarajan …
NEW DELHI: Reliance Industries has reported that natural gas production from its eastern offshore KG-D6 fields has dropped to about 32.66 million standard cubic meters per day. Gas output from KG-D6 in the week ended May 6 dropped to 32.66 mmscmd from 33.89 mmscmd in April, according to a status …
Plan to revise prices every fortnight to recover . 5k cr of revenue losses. State oil firms plan to raise petrol prices after the end of the budget session of Parliament this month and revise them every fortnight to recover . 5,000 crore past revenue losses as they haven’t increased …
The Oil Ministry has refused permission to public sector oil companies for acquiring Asian Development Bank's stake in Petronet LNG Ltd (PLL) so as to keep the nation's largest liquefied natural gas importer a private company. The ADB on August 23 last year offered to sell its 5.2 per cent …
Oil marketing companies have not revised petrol prices since December 1, 2011, despite sharp increase in international prices of petroleum products With losses on sale of petrol climbing to over Rs 7 a litre, state-owned oil firms have asked the government to either provide subsidy on the fuel or reduce …
Regulator usurping State's power, says IGL counsel Indraprastha Gas Ltd (IGL) told the Delhi High Court on Tuesday that the Petroleum & Natural Gas Regulatory Board's decision to slash network tariff and CNG compression charge on sale of piped natural gas (PNG) and CNG amounted to usurping the State's power …
June may turn out to be the luckiest month for government oil marketing companies for the third year in a row. Like the last two years, this June is also expected to see a round of price hikes in controlled fuel products. Price hikes of controlled petroleum products such as …
Chandigarh: Political cacophony over state grants apart, the Rs 21,000-crore Guru Gobind Singh Refinery at Bathinda is sure to boost industrial growth in Punjab. Not only would the project lead to the setting up of a petrochemical hub in Punjab, accruing investment worth thousands of crores, the refinery and downstream …
‘Fresh arbitration notice needed if it were to contest the fine' After slapping a hefty penalty of over $1 billion on Reliance Industries for failing to meet gas output targets, the Oil Ministry said the company's five-month-old arbitration notice on the issue was not valid and a fresh notice was …
The Obama administration on Friday issued a proposed rule governing hydraulic fracturing for oil and gas on public lands that will for the first time require disclosure of the chemicals used in the process. But in a significant concession to the oil industry, companies will have to reveal the composition …
Chevron Corp went to federal court in Miami on Friday seeking to force an Ecuadorean bank to release records of alleged bribes the company says were paid to an independent expert in a multi-billion dollar environmental lawsuit against the oil company. The company is seeking records of eight bank accounts …
A trial to apportion blame and damages for the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster will now start in 2013 after the New Orleans judge hearing the case scheduled a new start date. The delay is a boost for BP BP.LN -3.11% PLC, which is facing billions of dollars in fines from …
The power ministry will allow producers to raise tariffs if fuel costs of new projects rise, and will not oppose a hike in domestic gas prices. The move would hurt consumers but rescue large private investments that are threatened by uncertainty over fuel and tariffs. Linking tariffs to fuel costs …
The U.S. government said a trial to assign blame and damages among BP Plc and others over the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill should not be delayed until after a hearing over a $7.8 billion settlement of private party claims. BP has asked U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier in …
The focus is clearly on clean energy, says Minister for Resources and Energy Australia has embarked on a major expansion and investment programme for putting in place massive liquefied natural gas (LNG) infrastructure with around $170 billion worth of current and new projects taking shape. $170 b investment Already the …
Cairn India has sought government’s permission to sell crude oil to Reliance Industries’ refinery in the special economic zone (SEZ), putting the oil ministry in a fix because such supplies are regarded as deemed exports, which are forbidden by the production sharing contract. The oil ministry has recently allowed Cairn …
Cong questions 15-year tax holiday to refinery; villagers who gave land still waiting for job. Even as steel tycoon Lakshmi N Mittal has hinted that he may go for an initial public offering (IPO) of the just commissioned Guru Gobind Singh Oil Refinery at Bathinda, for expansion to raise capacity, …
NEW DELHI: A Parliamentary panel has asked oil ministry and DGH to closely monitor Reliance Industries' flagging KG-D6 gas fields saying any production decline should be supported by proper evaluation. RIL's KG-D6 fields have seen output drop by about 45% to less than 34 million standard cubic meters per day …
New Delhi: Reflecting a slowdown in the economy, the growth rate of eight core infrastructure sectors dipped to 2% in March and 4.3% during 2011-12 on account of poor performance in crude oil and natural gas. The growth rate of eight industries — crude oil, petroleum refinery products, natural gas, …
