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 …
The Brazilian federal prosecutor pressing criminal and civil litigation against Chevron Corp and drilling-rig operator Transocean Ltd for an offshore drilling accident has lost control of the cases. A judge moved a criminal case against Chevron and Transocean to a court in Rio de Janeiro, a court document said on …
Oil Search Ltd. (OSH.AU) said Thursday it has struck more gas in Papua New Guinea, firming up the potential of its recent P'nyang discovery to support an expansion of its US$15.7 billion gas-export joint venture with ExxonMobil Corp. (XOM). Oil Search said a sidetrack well to its recent P'nyang South-1 …
‘Or cut excise duty and compensate our loss' Fed up with the Centre's “indecision” on allowing an increase in fuel prices in the face of rising international crude prices, the oil marketing companies (OMCs) on Tuesday virtually threatened to increase petrol prices by Rs. 8.04 a litre. They said the …
New Delhi: CPM member Prasanta Chatterjee asked Comptroller and Auditor General Vinod Rai on Tuesday whether the auditor could quantify the loss to the government on account of conditions of the production contract for KG gas not being adhered to. While an agency report said Congress member Saifuddin Soz also …
New Delhi: Taking a cue from the RBI governor D Subbarao, market leader IndianOil Corporation indulged in grandstanding on Tuesday by saying state-run retailers would raise petrol price by almost Rs 10 per litre, if the government did not reduce excise duty or did not compensate their Rs 49-crore daily …
India has offered Qatar stake in some of the major petro projects, including the petrochemicals complex at Dahej in Gujarat, Indian Oil Corporation's (IOC's) LNG project in Ennore, Tamil Nadu, BPCL's petrochemical project in Kochi, petrochemical project in Mangalore and investment opportunity in the Paradip refinery and petrochemical project to …
The Attorney General for the State of Florida has asked a federal court to delay granting preliminary approval of BP Plc's $7.8 billion settlement with businesses and individuals suing over the massive 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill. Attorney General Pamela Bondi, representing her constituents, said in a filing in …
A Brazilian judge moved two $11 billion civil cases against Chevron and drilling-rig operator Transocean related to an offshore drilling accident and spills to a different court in Rio de Janeiro, a decision that removes a crusading prosecutor from the cases. The momentum is shifting in the legal battle stemming …
Vadodara: Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB) on Thursday issued a notice to Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) over heavy black smoke emission from the flare of its plant in the outskirts of the city. RIL has been asked to submit a detailed report about the incident and an action plan on …
MUMBAI: Authorities acted in a manner that endangered public health and human life, said the Bombay high court on Thursday while quashing the permission for a highrise next to the HPCL's refinery at Mahul near Chembur. A division bench of Justice P B Majmudar and Justice Ramesh Dhanuka passed the …
A Brazilian judge denied an injunction seeking to bar oil company Chevron Corp and drill-rig operator Transocean Ltd from operating in Brazil after two offshore oil leaks, a federal court in Rio de Janeiro said on Wednesday. The judge, Guilherme Diefenthaeler of the appellate division of the Second Region Federal …
An oil sheen spotted near Royal Dutch Shell platforms in the central Gulf of Mexico has caused the company to send a spill response vessel and seek aircraft over flights, a Shell spokeswoman said on Wednesday. The source of the one-mile by 10-mile sheen between Shell's Mars and Ursa projects …
France's highest court could annul a verdict against national oil giant Total over a devastating 1999 oil spill off the Brittany coast, a legal source told Reuters on Friday. Total, currently battling to cut off a gas leak at its North Sea Elgin platform off Scotland, was found guilty for …
BP Plc will gain access to U.S. government documents that may shed light on the size of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, a crucial issue in determining the oil company's liability. According to a Wednesday court filing, the government agreed to produce the documents …
Network tariff and compression charge on sale of PNG, CNG slashed The Petroleum and Natural Gas Regulatory Board (PNGRB) has slashed the network tariff and the CNG compression charge billed by Indraprastha Gas Ltd. (IGL) on sale of piped natural gas (PNG) and compressed natural gas (CNG) in Delhi. The …
Ahmedabad: The state public sector undertaking (PSU), GSPC Gas has hiked piped natural gas (PNG) prices by 30 per cent and compressed natural gas (CNG) prices by 10 per cent. Citing non-allocation of cheaper natural gas from the Union government as the reason for the hike, GSPC Gas Company (GGC), …
U.S. oil company Chevron discovered an oil seep in an offshore Brazilian oil field run by Petrobras near the site of a November leak that led to civil and criminal charges and sparked concerns about some of the world's most promising deep sea reserves. No traces have been found on …
Management panel to mull integrated survey plan this week. The oil ministry has called a crucial meeting of administrators of the KG-D6 block to deliberate upon Reliance Industries’ plan to survey the entire deep-sea region, instead of a piecemeal approach, to accelerate joint development of 16 untapped discoveries and reverse …
New Delhi After the Union Budget wiped out $1 billion from Cairn India’s market cap by raising the cess on oil production from R2,500 per tonne to R4,500, the government continues to sit on the company’s applications for both increasing production from its existing MBA (Mangala, Bhagyam and Aishwarya) fields …
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday said that pricing of petrol and diesel determined by a complex mechanism fell exclusively within the executive’s policy domain and refused to entertain a public interest litigation demanding rollback of repeated sharp hikes in motor fuel prices. Ex-MP P C Thomas had filed …
