Oil India Limited (OIL)’s gas well number 5 at Baghjan in Assam’s Tinsukia, where a blowout on May 27 triggered a continuing oil and gas leakage near the Maguri Motapung Wetland and Dibru Saikhowa Biosphere Reserve, was not assessed for its wildlife and biodiversity impact, according to Union environment ministry’s documents. No wildlife clearance was…
“India cannot afford to remain dependent on low cost, low value, low quality products. So we are very keen to focus on certain areas where we have the competitive advantages,” he said at a webinar organised by Indo-American Chamber of Commerce. In sectors like oil and gas and medical devices, India and the US can…
New Delhi, The Union Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas, Dharmendra Pradhan, on June 25 announced the government will buy home-made biogas from people of Uttar Pradesh.“We are also setting up 5000 biogas plants. People can make compressed biogas from house and agricultural waste and sell it to us. We’ll buy at fair price,” he…
Business models across industries have had to adapt to the ‘new normal’ as the world begins to learn and live with the coronavirus until a vaccine is discovered. If a business does not have strong distancing and safety standards, it perhaps does not have customers. In its bid to make fuel filling stations safer, Bharat…
India’s largest private refinery halted purchases of Venezuelan oil, putting additional pressure on the Latin American country’s beleaguered oil industry. Reliance Industries Ltd, which runs the biggest refinery in the world in Jamnagar and accounted for 25% of Venezuela’s exports last year, has no plans at the moment to make future purchases, according to people…
Oil prices fell $2 a barrel on Wednesday, as investors worried about record high crude inventories and feared that a second wave of the coronavirus pandemic could stall the reopening of global economies and cut fuel demand. Brent crude was down $2.04, or 4.8 per cent , to $40.59 a barrel by 11:03 a.m. EDT…
LONDON: Oil prices fell on Wednesday, reversing the previous session’s surge as worries about a second wave of the coronavirus pandemic outweighed support from a gradual reopening of global economies.Brent crude, which on Tuesday rose to its highest level since a price plunge began in March, slipped 47 cents, or 1.1 per cent, to $42.16…
MOSCOW: Russia is taking a leaf out of the US shale playbook so it can ramp up oil production quickly and hang on to its share of the global market when demand finally recovers after the coronavirus pandemic. At least two state-owned banks, Sberbank and VEB, plan to lend oil firms some 400 billion roubles…
Refiners such as HollyFrontier Corp and CVR Energy are exploring opportunities to produce renewable diesel to save money on less profitable refineries and offset compliance costs associated with U.S. blending laws.The product, however, currently only occupies a tiny corner of diesel production – and logistical hurdles are likely to limit its growth in coming years.…
WARSAW: Poland has signed contracts worth 1.9 billion zlotys ($483 million) to expand its liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal in Swinoujscie on the Baltic Sea to 8.3 billion cubic metres (bcm) by 2023 from 5 bcm now in response to increasing domestic demand. An LNG unit of Poland’s gas infrastructure operator Gaz-System and the ports…
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