Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday said that the government will soon come out with a policy on new public sector enterprises (PSEs) to define strategic sectors which will not have more than four PSUs. As part of the ‘Aatmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyan’, the finance minister had earlier talked about a policy where a maximum of…

Washington: US President Donald Trump has alleged that India, China and Russia do not take care of their air, while America does, noting that he withdrew from the “one-sided, energy-destroying” Paris climate accord which would have made it a “non-competitive nation”. Trump, in his address on energy and the Permian Basin in Midland, Texas on…

NUMALIGARH: Numaligarh Refinery Limited (NRL) has got environmental clearance for its mega-expansion project of Rs. 22,594 crore from the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC). The ministery gave the nod for the environment clearance to the project for expansion of the refinery from 3 MMTPA (million metric tonne per annum) to 9 MMTPA…

BILLINGS, Mont. — U.S. energy consumption plummeted to its lowest level in more than 30 years this spring as the nation’s economy largely shut down because of the coronavirus, federal officials reported Wednesday. The drop was driven by less demand for coal that is burned for electricity and oil that’s refined into gasoline and jet…

Even as a gas well operated by Oil India Limited (OIL) in Baghjan, Assam, continues to blaze out of control, the same company wants to drill for oil just a kilometre away from the site – at the edge of a national park. The company’s 200-page environmental impact assessment (EIA) report reveals the company took…

Oil India Limited (OIL) is planning dummy run of the final capping operation and subsequent killing operation at its Baghjan oilfield in Assam where a well is spewing gas for over two months. Considering the critical nature of the operations, a dummy run is being planned to be carried out with heavy machinery before the…

India’s much heralded Krishna Godavari basin deepwater gas projects will drive domestic gas production growth over the next few years. Combined, the projects will add over 1 bcfd of new supply by 2023. But only a small proportion of this supply has been contracted to date. With India’s gas market shaken by Covid-19, and low…

Petronet LNG Ltd (PLL) is betting big on the completion of gas pipelines to Mangaluru from its Kochi terminal to enhance its business volumes. The connectivity to Mangaluru is to be completed by the Gas Authority of India Ltd (GAIL) any time soon. This is expected to double PLL’s capacity utilisation to 40-45 per cent…

Supermajors BP Plc and Total of France may not bid for the acquisition of Bharat Petroleum Corp Ltd (BPCL) as foreign investors weigh inflexible locations of company’s oil refineries as well as tough labour laws against access to world’s fastest-growing fuel market. Among the probables who could bid to buy government’s entire 52.98 per cent…

The government has for the third time extended the deadline for bidding for privatisation of India’s second-biggest oil refiner Bharat Petroleum Corp Ltd (BPCL) by two months to September 30. While the Cabinet had in November last year approved the sale of government’s entire 52.98 per cent stake in BPCL, offers seeking expression of interest…