Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Are missing palm trees causing more lighting deaths in Bihar appearing in ‘The Times of India’ dated 29.05.2025". The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Are missing palm trees causing …
India's largest crude oil producer Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) is on the verge of reporting "losses' on every barrel of crude oil that it sells due to the high subsidy burden that it has to bear. This would be the first time that ONGC will post negative margins …
Renewable energy will contribute 10% of China's energy consumption by 2010, forecasts the country's latest 5-year plan. This ambitious target, equivalent to the energy produced from burning 300 million tonnes of coal, was announced by the country's National Development and Reform Commission last week.
Australian construction company Leighton Holdings Ltd on Tuesday announced that it has bagged a contract from Oil and Natural Gas Corporation worth $720 million for building an oil and gas pipeline in India. Leighton will install over 200 km of fixed and flexible pipelines for ONGC in the Mumbai High …
Today, with the world already reeling from the initial ravages of climate change, the big question before us is whether we can trust the developed countries that are responsible, in the first instance for bringing the world to the brink of a climate holocaust, to change their unsustainable life styles …
The Delhi High Court issued notices to the Union Petroleum Ministry and two public sector oil companies, Indian Oil and Bharat Petroleum, on Monday on a petition by a voluntary organisation praying for an inquiry into the artificial shortage of cooking gas in the Capital and the National Capital Region …
The latest report of Comptroller and Auditor General has suggested Tripura government to remove the constraints on inputs, need for power generation and utilization of resources besides increasing the efficiency in power generation process to make the state power sufficient. The report stated that Tripura had generation capacity of 142.5 …
DEBATE While the rise of alternative technologies will provide a breather, a number of factors may yet contribute to further volatility. Deepak Mahurkar Associate Director - Oil & Gas, PwC The fundamentals of demand and supply will prevail in the medium to long term, resulting in a self-price-correction mechanism The …
On Monday morning, crude prices touched $111 a barrel in Asian markets. It was only last week that they reached an all-time high of $110. The regularity with which global oil prices keep shattering previous records is undoubtedly a worrisome development for governments, central banks, oil producers, and consumers throughout …
Oil at $100-plus a barrel incentivises search for all kinds of substitutes and/or alternative oil extraction technologies. Hopefully, the government's clearance of the Tata-Sasol coal to liquid (CTL) project
India's first coal-to-liquid (CTL) project rolls off. An inter-ministerial group (IMG) has cleared the $8-billion (Rs 32,000 crore) CTL project of the Tata group and its partner Sasol of South Africa, the world's largest producer of oil from coal. This will pave the way for similar projects awaiting government clearance, …
Global oil prices may decline if recession in countries that are major consumers lasts long, according to Karin Kneissl, an energy analyst and freelance journalist based in Vienna, Austria. "The picture can also be different in a few months to come
the central government has thwarted a Delhi government plan to control toxic emissions from diesel vehicles in the capital. In a letter to Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit, Union Ministry of Shipping, Road Transport and Highways T R Baalu said the centre would not support the state's proposal to ban …
Barely a week after the Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez threatened to halt oil shipments to the us, the socialist leader has sent a placatory message, saying the country is not preparing to cut off oil supply to the us. "We don't have plans to stop sending oil to the us,' …
The country is facing a power crisis. Peak power shortage went up to 17.1 per cent in January this year (15.5 per cent in January last year) while the average power shortfall during the month is a little below 13 per cent. Capacity addition has been half of what was …
We find that the European Union's proposed directive on carbon-capture 'readiness', as reported in your News story 'Europe to capture carbon', is unacceptable (Nature 451, 232; 2008). It clears the way for a new generation of coal-fired power stations to be built in Europe without any abatement of emissions when …
Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) has begun talks with Coal India Ltd (CIL) to explore the possibility of striking a joint venture for a coal-liquefaction project. CIL sources confirmed that talks had already been held at the top level between the two companies. While RIL is stated to be interested in …
A controversial nuclear club is taking shape. The UK has signed up to the Bush administration's Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP) just a few months after it was rubbished as unworkable by the US National Academy of Sciences. The UK joins several other recent recruits, including Canada, Senegal and South …
Despite a dearth of power in the north, small and medium entrepreneurs are not keen to profit from the energy efficiency project introduced by the State Bank of India (SBI). The energy efficiency project for energy-intensive SMEs was rolled out by SBI in the second half of 2005 in the …
'Unauthorised' laying of new pipelines cannot be allowed, says gas regulator. The Petroleum and Natural Gas Regulatory Board (PNGRB) seems to be heading for a collision with the gas distribution companies that it is supposed to regulate. According to the gas regulator, no company can build or expand a gas …
DAY-2 BUDGET 2008-09 IMPACT/ OIL AND GAS The exclusion of petroleum and natural gas from the broad category of "mineral oil' has put players in the oil and gas sector in a tizzy. Producers of oil and gas and refiners of crude oil were claiming an income tax exemption under …
