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. …
Petroleum Ministry seeks setting up of an inter-ministerial group to draw up an action plan for pollution issues The Petroleum and Natural Gas Ministry has sought setting up of an inter-ministerial Committee (IMC) with representatives from the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, the Ministry of Heavy Industries, Urban Development …
New Delhi The Supreme Court on Tuesday approved an arbitral panel comprising its two former chief justices, S P Bharucha and VN Khare, to resolve a dispute between Mukesh Ambani-run Reliance Industries (RIL) and the ministry of petroleum and natural gas over the recovery of cost for developing the eastern …
New Delhi A regulatory panel overseeing the affairs of Reliance Industries’ (RIL) most prolific KG-D6 gas block has approved field development investments for three years starting 2010-11 with riders, oil ministry sources said on Tuesday. The panel also gave conditional approval to ‘declaration of the commerciality’ of the D-29, D-30 …
Panel Gives Conditional Approval For D6 Block, Gas Output Set To Rise New Delhi: The oversight panel for India’s showcase gas field off the Andhra coast gave Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries (RIL) and BP Plc permission to pump over $1 billion into the flagging field, but with the rider that …
RELIANCE-APPROVAL:India has declared three KG D6 discoveries commercial: oil min source A panel of Indian officials, including those from the upstream regulator, have declared three gas discoveries in Reliance Industries KG D6 block as commercial, subject to certain conditions, an oil ministry official told reporters. Reliance's budgeted expenditure on key …
Even as the Power Ministry is struggling to find answers to last week’s nation-wide blackout which had plunged 90 per cent of the country into darkness, its plans to enhance gas-based power capacity seems to be in danger of receiving a serious setback as owing to constantly dipping domestic output …
With the Empowered Group of Ministers (EGoM) being not in place due to the departure of Pranab Mukherjee from the government, the Petroleum Ministry is contemplating sending a proposal of hiking the prices of diesel, LPG and kerosene to the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) and leaving the decision …
With the worldwide production of liquefied national gas (LNG) expected to double within the next five-to-six years and demand in the country set to expand, the Petroleum and Natural Gas Ministry is coming up with a new LNG policy . The policy will provide level-field for new and old terminal …
Commercial sale to be governed by Oil Ministry norms. The tussle between Coal and Petroleum Ministries over extraction of coal mine methane (CMM) has been sorted out, with the Petroleum Ministry now agreeing to the proposal of allowing Coal India Ltd to explore CMM. But, the approval comes with a …
The Delhi High Court on Wednesday issued notices to the Union Ministries of Environment & Forests, Petroleum & Natural Gas and Finance and the Central Pollution Control Board on a public interest litigation submitting that the sudden rise in the use of diesel cars due to the huge subsidy on …
In a significant decision, the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) has directed the Petroleum and Natural Gas Ministry to carry out a revamp of the Directorate-General of Hydrocarbons (DGH) within three months with focus on strengthening its technical, legal and financial aspects to make it a world class body for better …
The petroleum ministry on Tuesday promised expeditious clearances to a proposal made by Mukesh Ambani-run Reliance Industries (RIL) and partner BP India to make fresh investments at four blocks at its KG-D6 gas field. The move comes amid RIL’s legal battle with the government over the latter disallowing the desired …
Government Likely To Hike Prices After Prez Polls If Upward Trend Continues. Crude price has breached the psychological $100 a barrel mark once again after a gap of 45 days and is expected to squeeze the space for opposition to an upward revision in fuel prices. State-run refiners paid $100.50 …
New Delhi In a move seen as delaying tactics, the oil ministry has posed a query to Reliance Industries on its CBM gas pricing that is a repeat of a question the firm had replied to over two months back. Days before a 60-day deadline for approval of RIL's import …
The Empowered Group of Ministers on natural gas pricing and utilisation will decide on the issue Reliance Industries' demand for tripling of KG-D6 gas price from April 1, 2014, will be referred to a high-powered ministerial panel for a decision, a top oil ministry source said today. RIL has sought …
New Delhi The government may increase the price of diesel later this month to reduce the rising oil subsidy burden, a senior petroleum ministry official said on condition of anonymity. The proposal to raise diesel prices has been kept in abeyance for a long time even though oil companies are …
Do you have more than one cooking gas connection at home? If yes, you better watch out. National oil companies — Indian Oil, Bharat Petroleum and Hindustan Petroleum — have begun the process of identifying those with multiple connections. Such customers must either surrender the extra connections or face the …
New Delhi The oil ministry has decided to cancel permits issued to billionaire Mukesh Ambani’s privately owned RGTIL to lay four natural gas pipelines saying there were inordinate delays in construction of the 2,175-km lines. The ministry refused to buy RGTIL’s argument that the government has already allocated all of …
New Delhi:State-run gas utility GAIL is in the final stages of signing a 20-year deal for shipping two million tonnes of gas a year from a facility for exporting shale gas in liquid form that is coming up in the US east coast, sources close to the development said. The …
The Petroleum and Natural Gas Ministry has warned the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) that unless proactive efforts are made to fasten the process of pending clearances for oil and gas blocks, the country could witness an ‘exodus’ of foreign companies and billions of dollars of investments. Foreign oil and gas …
