Oil markets extend gains as prices end on a monthly high

Abu Dhabi: Oil prices extended their rally for a fifth consecutive weekly high, as oil markets ended the month May on a positive note driven by production cuts and global economies easing their lockdown measures. Brent was trading at $37.84 on Friday’s closing, with West Texas Intermediate (WTI) on $35.49, as the American benchmark recorded…

U.S. warns governments, firms against aiding Iran fuel shipments to Venezuela

Seeking to deter further shipments of Iranian fuel to Venezuela, the Trump administration has quietly warned foreign governments, seaports, shipping companies and insurers that they could face stiff U.S. sanctions if they aid the tanker flotilla, the U.S. envoy on Venezuela told Reuters on Friday. Elliott Abrams, Washington’s special representative on Venezuela, said the pressure…

Three days post Assam oil well explosion, natural gas emission still on

GUWAHATI: Three days after an explosion occurred at an oil well in Assam’s Tinsukia district on Wednesday, the emission of natural gas from the well still continued on Saturday. Sources in OIL said all possible measures had been already taken to save people living in adjoining villages by evacuating them to a safer location. They…

IGL may hike CNG price to recover ‘corona costs’

New Delhi: IGL is considering raising the price of CNG as a sharp decline in sales due to the lockdown has proven inadequate to cover operational costs and additional expenditure incurred to make stations corona-ready. Sources told TOI the company was not looking at raising the price of PNG (piped natural gas). But continued under-recovery…

Fuel use on rise as life gets back into groove

Petrol and diesel consumption in Telangana is on revival course, presumably faster than anticipated, as COVID-19-triggered-lockdown and restrictions that severely impacted the offtake are being relaxed. ‘It is pretty good now’ is how R. Sravan S. Rao, executive director and State head of the Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) for Telangana and Andhra Pradesh, sought to…

Women can make waste to fuel success: Dharmendra Pradhan

BHUBANESWAR: Participation of women in organised discard and aggregation of used cooking oil from kitchens across the country will give a major boost to government’s initiative of converting waste to fuel and promote healthy eating in Indian homes, said Union Petroleum and Natural Gas and Steel Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Saturday. Attending a webinar on…