Union Petroleum ministry has circulated a note to the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) seeking hike in the price of natural gas produced by both private and state-run companies. The ministry's proposal, if accepted by the CCEA, may benefit firms like ONGC, OIL, Reliance Industries (RIL), Cairn India who are selling the fuel at a pre-determined price
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Cairn’s 3 oilfields hold 2.19 bn barrels of reserves
Cairn India's three oil fields - Mangala, Bhagyam and Aishwariya - in its Rajasthan block had an in-place oil reserve of 2.19 billion barrels as of March 31, 2013 compared to 2.090 billion barrels as on March 31, 2012. It may be noted that these three fields produced oil at the rate of about 170,000 barrels per day for most part of
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Environment ministry seeks details from GSPC
Union Ministry of Environment and Forests has reportedly asked Gujarat State Petroleum Corporation (GSPC) to submit details on certain critical environmental issues identified during laying of pipeline for its project in Andhra Pradesh. It may be noted that the company is laying pipeline for transporting natural gas from Deen Dayal West block in KG Basin in KG-OSN-2001/03
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Kerala CM asks officials to go ahead with gas pipeline project
Kerala government has asked its authorities concerned to go ahead with the work on laying gas pipeline from the Kochi LNG terminal to Kasargode. Land required for the purpose has to be acquired as the pipeline passes through seven districts, starting from Kochi to Kasargode.
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ONGC adds reserves in FY13
State-run oil and gas explorer ONGC added initial-in-place reserves of 265.65 million tonne oil plus oil-equivalent gas during 2012-13. According to internal assessment, this would mean ultimate reserves of 84.84 million tonne of oil plus oil-equivalent gas. Currently, the firm produces 44-45 million tonne of oil plus oil-equivalent gas. The firm has much more oil, as well as oil-equivalent gas because of the discoveries mad
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TCG asserts right over shares of state govt in HPL
West Bengal government's plan to offload its 39.99 per cent stake in Haldia Petrochemical (HPL) suffered setback with the group companies of The Chatterjee Group (TCG), claiming part of the stake sale. TCG, holds stake in HPL through its group firms Chatterjee Petrochem (Maurtius) Company and Chatterjee Petrochem (India
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PSU OMCs seek permission to set up new outlets
Public sector oil marketing companies (OMCs) like Indian Oil Corp (IOC) want the government to allow them to invest on new fuel retail outlets without restriction. It may be recalled that the union government recently prohibited these firms, who are sitting on large pile of debt, from making investment in retail
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OVL proposes to invest more capital in Vietnam block
ONGC Videsh (OVL), the overseas arm of state-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC), is awaiting government approval for investing an additional $65.67 million in an hydrocarbon block in Vietnam. In 1988, OVL acquired exploration license for Block 06.1, in which it holds 45 per cent stake. TNK Vietnam BV is the operator with 35 per cent stake and the remaining 20 per c
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Environment ministry clears ToR for report on Rs 99 bn project
Following the recommendation from an expert committee, the ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) approved the terms of references (ToR) for preparing environment impact report for the proposed 2,200 mw gas based project of ONGC. Oil & Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) plans to set up the gas based power plant, which is second for the company after its 726 mw Tripura plant, in Maharashtra at a
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Cairn India plans $3 bn investment in 3 years
After announcing earnings results for the full year 2012-13, P Elango, CEO of Cairn India informed that the firm aims to invest $3 billion on oil and gas business in India over the next three years. He further said that over 80 per cent of this investment would go into the firm's prolific Barmer oil block in Rajasthan. The firm would meet the entire inves