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 …
Marathon Petroleum Co has agreed to cap the flaring of excess natural gas and implement efficiency controls on combustion devices to settle an emissions dispute with the Obama administration. The Ohio-based company reached an agreement with the Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Justice in response to allegations …
French oil major Total said it would pump mud into a well to stop a gas leak at its Elgin platform in the North Sea, after a reconnaissance team found that conditions were safe enough to allow the operation. Operations to inject mud into the well before plugging it are …
In talks with Shell, Petronet LNG to book capacity Faced with a shortfall in gas production from its KG-D6 field, Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) is set to make its debut in the marketing of imported natural gas. India Gas Solutions, the equal joint venture between RIL and British Petroleum (BP) …
With KG-D6 output hitting an all- time low, Reliance Industries and its British partner BP plc have submitted to the government a revised field development plan for enhancing gas production from MA field in the block. RIL-BP propose to drill one gas production well on the MA oilfield in the …
A Brazilian prosecutor is demanding that Chevron and the oil drilling contractor Transocean pay $10.9 billion for a second offshore spill last month, the US oil giant said Wednesday. The new penalty sought -- 20 billion reals, or $10.9 billion -- "is arbitrary, speculative and not based on facts," Chevron …
Marathon Petroleum Co has agreed to cap the flaring of excess natural gas and implement efficiency controls on combustion devices to settle an emissions dispute with the Obama administration. The Ohio-based company reached an agreement with the Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Justice in response to allegations …
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 …
A Brazilian prosecutor is demanding that US oil giant Chevron and the oil drilling contractor Transocean pay $10.9 billion for a spill off southeastern Brazil last month, Chevron said on Wednesday. The penalty sought of 20 billion reals, or $10.9 billion, “is arbitrary, speculative and not based on facts,” the …
New Delhi: Responding to the ongoing conflict between Sudan and less than oneyear-old South Sudan, India has appointed a special envoy to broker peace between the two countries that hold the key to India’s pursuit of oil and other hydrocarbon resources in Africa. The foreign ministry’s decision to send a …
The Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) has pulled up the Gujarat government-run Gujarat State Petroleum Corporation (GSPC) for financial irregularities and undue favour to select companies such as Reliance Industries Ltd and Adani Enterprises Ltd. According to its report for the year ended March 2010-11, GSPC incurred losses …
State-owned oil firms are pushing for at least Rs. 3 per litre hike in petrol price from April 1 to cover part of the spike in cost of raw material. "We are losing Rs. 6.43 per litre on petrol and after adding 20 per cent sales tax, the desired increase …
NEW DELHI: Oil Ministry is closely monitoring oil imports by refiners, but it has no plans to order a reduction in Iranian supplies despite reports that the Obama administration may impose sanctions against India on June 28 because the country continues to buy significant quantity of oil from Teheran, government …
Government has asked power producers to refrain from setting up new gas-based plants as dwindling fuel supply is threatening viability of 37,000-MW of existing and upcoming projects. The power ministry has issued an advisory to developers for not planning projects based on domestic gas till 2015-16. The directive signalsthat nofurther …
AGARTALA, March 13 – The 52-km gas pineline to feed the Palatana power plant is almost ready and is expected to be tested in the next few weeks, said K Satyanarayana, Asset Manager, ONGC Tripura Asset. Talking to The Assam Tribune here on Tuesday, the Asset Manager said the laying …
The management committee of Reliance-operated D6 block, which is headed by the director general of hydrocarbons, has so far granted approval for the company to recover only $3.99 billion of its cost from sale of oil and gas out of its claim of $9.47 billion, oil minister Jaipal Reddy said. …
New Delhi: A billion-dollar venture of public sector cooperatives Iffco and Kribhco in Oman is in jeopardy as Muscat has trebled the price of gas it supplies to India’s only overseas fertilizer plant ahead of schedule. Government officials told TOI that Oman has asked Omifco—Iffco and Kribhco’s joint venture with …
NEW DELHI: For the second time in a year, the Oil Ministry has ordered diversion of natural gas from Reliance Industries' KG-D6 fields to fuel-starved power plants in Andhra Pradesh. The Ministry on March 2 issued orders that 2.5 million cubic meters per day of gas, which state-owned GAIL India …
The oil giant Shell filed suit in federal court in Alaska last week against a dozen environmental groups, employing a rare — and rarely successful — legal gambit in an effort to pre-empt anticipated legal challenges to its plans to begin exploration in the Arctic Ocean this summer. Was the …
The estimated $7.8 billion deal struck by BP Plc with businesses and individuals suing over the massive 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill could speed up payments to thousands of claimants and offers lawyers a potential windfall in legal fees. London-based BP announced the deal on Friday with the Plaintiffs' …
CUTTACK: The Orissa High Court on Monday allowed construction of Indian Oil Corporation Limited’s (IOCL) water intake well on the Mahanadi river bed here with the condition of dredging the reservoir zone of the Jobra Barrage and its regular maintenance. A division bench of Justice BP Das and Justice MM …
