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SOPs for oil & gas industry are being re-visited to prevent accidents in future: Centre

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Being aware of the Baghjan oilfield incident in Assam’s Tinsukia district, the Centre said in the Parliament on Saturday that the Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for oil and gas industry are also being re-visited for making improvements in order to prevent such accidents in future. In a written reply in the Lok Sabha, Ministry for…

Centre mulls closure of PSUs up for sale on a case-to-case basis

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The Union government may consider the closure of central public sector units (PSUs) even if they have been approved for strategic disinvestment on a case-to-case basis. In a written reply to a question in the Lok Sabha, Minister of State for Finance Anurag Thakur said that the government follows a policy of closure of centre…

Oil Rallies Despite Bearish Demand Forecasts

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Oil prices perked up this week, buoyed by both OPEC developments and Hurricane Sally. That is despite BP’s pessimistic 2020 edition of its annual outlook that suggests we have already seen peak oil demand. This is startling given BP’s 2019 outlook that suggested oil demand would continue to rise for more than a decade. Undeterred…

Oil flat as Libya developments counter OPEC+ boost

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NEW YORK – Oil prices were unchanged on Friday, weighed after a Libyan commander said a blockade on the country’s oil exports would be lifted for a month, while supportive signals from an OPEC+ meeting lifted futures. Both the U.S. and Brent crude benchmarks posted weekly gains after Saudi Arabia pressed allies to stick to…

Turkmenistan assures Pakistan to address concerns about TAPI gas pipeline’s commercial, legal aspects

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Pakistan and Turkmenistan on Friday held a detailed discussion and reviewed progress achieved so far on the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) gas pipeline project. Special Assistant to Prime Minister (SAPM) on Petroleum Nadeem Babar led the discussion with the Turkmenistan delegation, which was headed by Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Directors of TPCL…

Why Are Oil and Gas Companies Investing in Nuclear Fusion?

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The oil industry’s search for carbon-free alternatives to fossil fuels has led to many interesting investment decisions over the years. Somewhere high on that list is nuclear fusion, the energy that powers the sun, which has drawn investment from at least three major oil companies. Chevron became the most recent player to show an interest…

UN chief: don’t ‘throw away’ stimulus money on fossil fuels

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Vienna: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called Thursday on governments not to “throw away” economic stimulus funds by supporting fossil fuel industries that contribute to global warming. Speaking at a virtual conference on climate change, Guterres noted that countries have “a choice of two paths” as they mobilise trillions of dollars of taxpayers’ money for economic…

U.S. drillers add oil and gas rigs for second week in three -Baker Hughes

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U.S. drillers this week added oil and natural gas rigs for the second time in three weeks as a recent increase in energy prices from coronavirus-linked lows prompted some to return to the wellpad. The oil and gas rig count, an early indicator of future output, rose by one to 255 in the week to…

Possible hurricane may threaten Gulf oil, chems in US

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HOUSTON (ICIS)–A tropical depression in the Gulf of Mexico could strengthen into a hurricane by Sunday, threatening offshore oil wells as well as the ports, chemical plants and refineries along the Texas coast, meteorologists said. The forecast still has quite a bit of uncertainty as shown in the following map. The shaded area shows the…

India’s oil product demand shows recovery in September

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India’s sales of diesel in the first half of September rose from the same period a month earlier, as monsoon rains eased and the government relaxed restrictions in the latest phase of its six-month Covid-19 lockdown ending this month. Gasoline sales also rose during the same period. Diesel use in the first two weeks of…

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