Good Food is First Food. It is not junk food. It is the food that connects nature and nutrition with livelihoods. This food is good for our health; it comes from the rich biodiversity of our regions; it provides employment to people. Most importantly, cooking and eating give us pleasure. …
Samudra Gupta Kashyap Guwahati, August 28: Six days after a strike called by a student body over alleged damage to a protected monument brought drilling operations in Upper Assam to a grinding halt, the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) has offered to take up protection and conservation of all …
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 …
Sinopec has made an approach to Imperial Energy, the London-listed oil and gas explorer, which could derail takeover talks between the UK group and India's ONGC. The Chinese state-owned oil group, also known as China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation, made an approach to Imperial last week and is in the …
Abhineet Kumar / Mumbai July 29, 2008, 0:02 IST Reliance Industries and Oil & Natural Gas Corp (ONGC), two of India's biggest oil explorers, failed to benefit from record crude oil prices in the first six months of this year as the availability of rigs declined during the period. This, …
Rakteem Katakey / New Delhi July 25, 2008, 0:20 IST Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC), the country's largest oil and gas producer, plans to enter uranium mining in alliance with public-sector Uranium Corporation of India, aiming to tap the business opportunity from nuclear fuel shortage in Asia's third largest …
ANIKET ALAM In the last week of April, India announced a us $5.4 billion credit to African countries for developing their infrastructure and meeting other development goals. This five year package also included duty free imports from 50 Least Developed Countries, of which 34 are in Africa. The government also …
ONGC's good work in combating climate change has won it an international recognition. An eminent jury, under the chairmanship of Justice PN Bhagwati, former Chief Justice of India and Member of UN Human Rights Commission, adjudged ONGC the winner of '2008 Golden Peacock' award for an impeccable record in the …
Speaking at World Convention on Climate Change at Palampur in Himachal Pradesh, former prime minister of Sweden Dr Ola Ullsten said that the key to long-term environment conservation and sustenance was to examine and incorporate pricing mechanisms for natural resources. Addressing policy makers, civil society groups and environment experts at …
Ploughing It Back: Several projects run by ONGC enable the company to use a fixed share of its profit for sustained public service (Left: Before the treatment of oil-contaminated land, Right: After the treatment) Unlike its cutting edge oil extraction technology, state-owned ONGC is still rooted in the age-old definition …
The Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) has announced to go for large-scale exploration work in Tripura with the increasing investment scope in the power sector and medium-scale industries in the State. ONGC officials said here today that the exploration would commence at Tulamura under Belonia subdivision from the first …
This is the conclusion of a two-part series on the global oil scenario and ONGC. The first part was published on May 6 In India, oil production grew by 6% in the last five years up to 2006-07. It was during the second half of 1994-95 that ONGC's medium-sized fields
The Hinduja group plans to go ahead with Rs 25,600-crore refinery at Kakinada even if its indecisive project partner Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) opts out. "We have given in writing to the Andhra Pradesh chief minister that we are keen to set up the project, with or without …
After the UK-based Hinduja group, Oil and Natural Gas Corporation's (ONGC) proposed Rs 26,500-crore refinery at Kakinada, Andhra Pradesh, has found new suitors in Reliance Industries (RIL) and Essar Oil. This is despite ONGC maintaining its stand that the refinery is not financially feasible unless the Andhra Pradesh government gives …
Following the collapse of banking powerhouse Bear Stearns, BW decided to scrutinise the Indian terrain for possible industries and companies that might follow a similar fate. In this week
Public sector ONGC on Saturday said it has achieved highest reserve accretion of the decade and would invest Rs 3,570.6 crore for maintaining, revamping and enhancing its oil and gas production from existing fields. The board of the company has approved investment proposals aggregating Rs 3,570.6 crore for maintaining, revamping …
ONGC's proposal to assign a 25% participating interest in its Mahanadi basin deep water block, MN-DWN2002/2,to BG Exploration and Production India Ltd (BGEPIL) has been recommended for approval of the petroleum ministry by the Directorate General of Hydrocarbons(DGH). The proposed assignment of participating interest (PI) to BGEPIL is part of …
The expert committee engaged by the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) to go into the alleged damage caused to the historic Rangghar by the seismic survey carried out by the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Ltd (ONGCL), has been learnt to have called for a policy of the State Government …
Even as the last date for bidding for Nelp-VII has been deferred till May 16, owing to uncertainty over sops for the E&P; players, the petroleum ministry has not given up just yet. The ministry, in its internal report, said focus would be given on increasing domestic production by attracting …
