Assam government received interest from East-West Petroleum Corporation for investing in the state's potential shale gas assets. The Canadian firm, which is owned by the industrialist, Herb Dhaliwal, feels that the state possesses huge shale gas potential and the fuel could be extracted by adopting new technology. Dhaliwal, the first Canadian Cabinet Minister of Indian origin, said his company was keen to invest in a big way in the
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CAG insists on its right to vet contractors’ documents
Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has asked oil ministry to ‘specifically incorporate’ its right to audit contractor(s) relevant documents of contractors in the future production sharing contracts (PSC).In a letter to Petroleum Secretary, the CAG’s Director General (Commercial) II, P Sesh Kumar said the government auditor must have access to the books, accounts, records, documents and financial statements of co
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Refining capacity of BPCL may rise
Reports indicate that the refining capacity of downstream oil company Bharat Petroleum Corporation (BPCL) may rise to 40 mn t by 2015. Recently, the company commissioned a six-mn t refinery in Bina, Madhya Pradesh, while gradually increasing the capacity of its Mumbai facility to 12 mn t. The company is in the process of raising the capacity of its K
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Players can submit bids for pipeline projects on March 21
Media reports suggest that interested parties can submit bids for laying a 300-km gas pipeline connecting Reliance Industries’ coal bed methane production site in Shahdol, Madhya Pradesh, to Phulpur in Uttar Pradesh
on March 21. Reports quoted a Petroleum and Natural Gas Regulatory Board (PNGRB) official as saying that the board would start selling the bid documents on
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RGTIL pipeline capacity fixed at 85 mmscmd
In its November 2 order, the Petroleum and Natural Gas Regulatory Board (PNGRB) declared the capacity of the East-West gas pipeline of Reliance Gas Transportation Infrastructure (RGTIL) at 85 million standard cubic meter per day (mmscmd). One-third of this capacity will be available on common carrier basis
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Power plants may get KG D6 gas in rotation
Union Petroleum Ministry decided to allocate the scarce natural gas produced from the Reliance Industries' KG-D6 field on a rotation basis to power plant
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SC to hear IGL-PNGRB case on Nov 21
The next hearing of the Supreme Court case regarding dispute between Petroleum and Natural Gas Regulatory Board (PNGRB) and Indraprastha Gas (IGL) is sche
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Fall in output hits earnings of OVL
According to a company statement, for the Apr-Sep 2012 period, the net profit and sales of ONGC Vides
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BP withdraws from 9 blocks
After initial assessment, UK's BP decided to withdraw from 9 oil and gas blocks in which it bought stake from Reliance Industries (R
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Ministry may urge ONGC to decommission project
Agency reports suggest that the union environment ministry would urge ONGC to decommission an abandoned pipeline project in the Nagapattinam district of T