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 …
State-run Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC) on Monday said it has reconfigured its proposed mega petrochemical plant at Dahej in Gujarat, bringing down the cost by Rs 1,100 crore to Rs 12,440 crore. The board of directors of ONGC, which met here on Monday, approved the revised configuration of …
An empowered committee of secretaries (ECS) has cleared Cairn India's proposal to recover the cost of the $700-million pipeline from its Rajasthan fields to the Gujarat coast through sale of crude oil from the field. "The ECS has allowed the pipeline cost to be included in the field development cost …
State government is contemplating to set up a petro chemical corridor in the coastal area shortly. Minister for major industries J. Geeta Reddy announced this while responding to a query from local MLA Routhu Surya Prakasa Rao during question hour in the State Legislative Assembly. In a statement issued by …
Rafael Ramirez, Venezuela's energy minister, on Friday rejected concerns that PDVSA, the state oil company, would be affected by attempts by ExxonMobil to freeze assets worth $12bn. Exxon won court orders on Thursday in the UK, the Netherlands and the Netherlands Antilles to freeze PDVSA's global assets in an attempt …
A midst oppositions from environmental groups, the Inter-American Development Bank has approved a us $400-million loan for the construction of a liquefied natural gas (lng) project in Peru. The project will be the country's first lng export facility. Camisea field is an important gas reserve in South America that Peru …
The Peruvian government has allowed two oil companies to explore oil in remote parts of the Amazonian forests inhabited by uncontacted tribes. The decision comes after a Peruvian government spokesperson suggested these tribes do not exist, claiming there was "no firm proof' of their existence. The move is despite the …
Sri Lanka's Supreme Court has issued an injunction preventing the government-owned Ceylon Petroleum Corporation from selling liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) to the multinational corporation Shell. The ruling is in response to a petition filed by Laugfs Gas Pvt Ltd
Residents of waterfront villages around Nigeria's oil capital Port Harcourt are relieved as a plan to demolish their homes has been shelved, following the dismissal of the governor of the oil rich Rivers State. Nigeria's supreme court disqualified governor Celestine Omehia on October 26 and appointed Rotimi Amaechi in his …
>> About 500,000 hill lambs suspected of foot and mouth disease will be culled and incinerated in Wales and Scotland over the next few weeks to avoid a
The Ukrainian government has for the first time allowed a us energy player to explore and develop its potential oil deposits buried beneath the Black Sea. The government believes the reservoir called Prykerchenska could yield billions of barrels of oil. The outgoing government of Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych approved a …
reliance gas row: In an interim order, the Bombay High Court has ruled that Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) cannot be forced to sell gas from its eastern offshore KG-D6 fields to firms run by his brother Anil Ambani at "subsidized rates and incur loses.' Delivering its verdict on …
a flat, 21 km strip of land in the middle of the Haldi river, three metres above sea level and accessible only by motorised boats, is the West Bengal government's alternative to Nandigram for a chemical hub. The state cabinet on September 17 endorsed a plan to locate the Indonesia-based …
pulp appraisal: A federal court in Australia agreed to expedite an appeal hearing over an Aus $2 billion pulp mill proposal in Tasmania state. Environmental groups had challenged the government's environmental assessment of the proposed mill. A lower court had rejected the groups' challenge, following which they appealed the federal …
The construction of a section of Russia's Sakhalin II oil pipeline project resumed from August 1, 2007, a few days after it was suspended after allegations that its safety link violated the approved design plans. The Sakhalin Rostekhnadzor, the regional environment agency, had suspended the construction of a trunk pipeline …
oil shock: Four fuel stations in Massachusetts, USA, have been fined US $600,000 for failure to clean up spills of petrol and other petroleum products. The stations in Medford and Meldon areas of the state got fined by the Suffolk County Courthouse. The ruling requires Tony Eskanian and Ramona Eskanian …
The us state of Illinois has reproached environment regulators in Indiana for permitting a bp refinery near the Illinois-Indiana border to dump more ammonia and industrial sludge into Lake Michigan. bp refinery has been exempted from Indiana environmental laws to clear the way for a us $3.8 billion expansion, which …
Russia's natural-gas exporter oao Gazprom has announced to build a gas pipeline parallel to the Eastern Siberian oil link, which will lower the cost of supplying fuel to China and the Asia Pacific. It will use oil fields in the Yakutia Republic for supplying the oil. This was done keeping …
In keeping with its nationalisation drive, Bolivia recently took full control of two Petrobras oil refineries in the country. The Brazilian government-owned company Petrobras, the biggest foreign investor in Bolivia and leading natural gas producer, was bought for us $112 million. After Venezuela, Bolivia has South America's biggest natural gas …
Artists, scientists, writers, teachers and entrepreneurs in Venezuela's northwestern state of Zulia have set up a foundation to sponsor an eco-tourism museum. At the heart of their endeavour is Maracaibo lake, the largest in South America, covering more than 12,000 sq km. The lake was the epicentre of the region's …
