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. …
The state-owned ONGC’s repeated dilly-dallying on supplying gas has delayed the state-run NEEPCO’s second biggest thermal power project in northeast India and resulted in huge losses, an official said Tuesday. The Rs.9.50 billion (nearly $150 million) power plant is being commissioned by the state-run North Eastern Electric Power Corporation (NEEPCO) …
Two–and–a–half months after President Pranab Mukherjee dedicated ONGC’s first 726 MW mega power project in Tripura to the nation, commercial generation is yet to begin due to technical snags, an official said. The OTPC (ONGC Tripura Power Company limited), a company floated to set up the Rs.10,000–crore plant at Palatana …
With an aim to attract more visitors to the country by improving cleanliness and hygiene at tourist destinations, Tourism Minister K. Chiranjeevi on Wednesday launched the “Clean India” campaign at world heritage site Taj Mahal. The 17th Century marble mausoleum, which has been adopted by ONGC, is the second site …
According to ONGC's proposal initially five exploratory wells will be drilled at the Kutch-Saurashtra offshore block ONGC Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) Ltd has got environment clearance (EC) for its Rs 580 crore project to drill seven exploratory wells in Kutch Saurashtra offshore block GK-OSN-2009/2 on west coast of …
Cabinet nod to Rangarajan formula; price fixed at $8.4/mBtu The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) on Thursday decided to double the price of domestic natural gas, from $4.2 to $8.4 a million British thermal unit (mBtu), from April next year - a decision that might hit the power and …
Electricity to cost more as power cos to pass on fuel price hike to consumers While Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC) and Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) will be the biggest gainers from the gas price hike announced by the Indian government today, power and fertiliser companies will see their …
New Delhi : IN what could spur stagnant domestic production of natural gas, reduce the dependence of power and fertiliser companies on imports of expensive LNG and ease the subsidy burden on the fisc, the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) on Thursday approved hiking gas price to $8.4/mmbtu from …
Prices could double by 2014 leading to hike in power tariff and fertilizer cost Despite opposition from within the Cabinet and outside, the Manmohan Singh government on Thursday approved a doubling of natural gas prices from the present $4.2 mbtu to $8.4 mbtu from April 1, 2014. Many experts feel …
A Rs.1-lakh worth solar power system was commissioned at Arooran Manavar Illam, an orphanage in Tiruvarur, recently. Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Ltd (ONGC), Karaikal, contributed Rs.60, 000 for the project while the rest was borne by Mangalam Bagavathi, president, Lioness Club of Tiruvarur. About 675 watts could be generated …
Union environment and forests minister Jayanthi Natarajan on Thursday called for setting up a corpus fund to help quick response to oil spills in the sea and protecting India's fragile coastal eco-system. In the recent past, there have been frequent incidents of leakages of crude from broken ships or from …
Paves the way for a new policy after CCEA approval The Law and Justice Ministry has favoured a stable, five-year gas pricing formula, and also advocated a single price for all sources of gas. This would be put into effect from April 1, 2014, after approval of the Cabinet Committee …
Over the last few months, the ministry of petroleum and natural gas (MoPNG) has cleared around 200 pending management committee (MC) resolutions involving oil and gas blocks operated by both public and private companies, from as far back as 2004. In April alone, around 88 pending MC resolutions were cleared. …
The petroleum and natural gas ministry is expected to move a Cabinet note on gas pricing to the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) as early as next week, Veerappa Moily, minister of petroleum and natural gas, told FE. Moily said the the petroleum and natural gas ministry is leaning …
The Tripura government is encouraging exploration agencies, including state-owned companies ONGC and GAIL, to go for massive gas exploration drive in the state. Besides ONGC and GAIL, the state government has allowed two private companies - Jubilant Oil and Gas Pvt Ltd and Agarawal Business Group - to do the …
Supreme Court judgement dated 09/05/2013 in the matter of Arun Kumar Agrawal vs Union of India & Others on approval granted by GOI for the acquisition of majority stake in Cairn India Limited.
Domestic gas prices may be fixed at $2 lower than the $8.8-per-unit price discovered by the Rangarajan commitee constituted to suggest changes in the production-sharing contract and future domestic gas-pricing mechanism. Sources said the oil ministry agreed to the basic principle of gas pricing suggested by the panel, but wants …
The Tripura government, Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) and a private company signed a tripartite agreement on Tuesday to establish a huge urea fertilizer plant in the State. The State government would have a 10 per cent stake in the Rs. 5,000 crore project which will come up in …
MoU will be signed to set up natural gas fertiliser manufacturing factory early next month Oil and gas major ONGC will sign an agreement with the Tripura government to establish a fertiliser manufacturing unit near Kumarghat in Unakoti district. The MoU would be signed to set up natural gas fertiliser …
As per the contract, the service partner KRPEL will bring the investment and expertise to rejuvenate the depleted fields of the ONGC ONGC Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited (ONGC) chairman and managing director Sudhir Vasudeva said that the state-run enterprise intends to set up its own power plants, not …
ITC, Yes Bank, HCL, Infosys, ONGC. More and more businesses are now realising there are long-term benefits in going green. Nothing shakes businesses as much as resource scarcity. With certain sectors like cement, steel and it being energy and water-intensive, the fear of climate change impacting the very resources that …
