BHUBANESWAR: Union Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas Dharmendra Pradhan on Friday reviewed the progress of Talcher Fertilizers Ltd’s (TFL) coal gasification-based plant and directed expeditious completion of the project.   “The TFL plant at Talcher will be India’s first coal gasification-based fertiliser plant with pet coke blending. It will facilitate seamless supply of Read more

    Domestic natural gas production fell 9.1% year on year (YoY) to 2,333 million metric standard cubic metre (mmscm) in November. The 2.5 million tonne (MT) of crude oil produced in the country during the month was also 4.5% lower than the production in the year-ago period. Indigenous natural gas production caters to about Read more

    Ahmedabad, Dec 11 (PTI) The Gujarat government on Friday said it wishes to develop the Mandal-Becharaji Special Investment Region (SIR) as a model industrial developed city across the nation.   Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani made this statement after virtually inaugurating the Mandal-Becharaji SIR Development Authority’s building, built at a cost of Rs Read more

  Chennai, Dec 11 (IANS) India is positioning itself as an economic partner by investments in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, said a senior official of Export-Import Bank of India (India Exim Bank) on Friday.   In his address at the India-Morocco Business Forum, the bank’s Deputy Managing Director Harsha Bangari said Read more

    ‘New Delhi: The convenient 5 kg LPG cylinder has been rechristened ‘Chhotu’, the nation’s top oil firm Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) said on Friday.The cylinders are available at various points of sale, including IOC petrol pumps, Indane LPG distributors and department (Kirana) stores and can be purchased by submitting just an ID proof. Read more

    New Delhi: Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas and Steel Shri Dharmendra Pradhan today held a telecall with HE Saad Sherida Al-Kaabi, Qatar’s Minister of State for Energy Affairs and President & CEO Qatar Petroleum on promoting Qatari investments in the entire energy value chain in India. This was a follow-up to Hon’ble Read more

    Gauhati High Court has stayed the environmental clearance accorded to energy major Oil India Limited for exploration and drilling for hydrocarbons at seven locations in Dibru Saikhowa National Park spread over Dibrugarh and Tinsukia districts in Upper Assam.   Acting on a public interest litigation plea filed by advocate Mrinmoy Khataniar and mountaineer Read more

    New Delhi: Niti Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant on Wednesday said clean energy is critical for India and it is important for the country to get into cutting-edge technology. Addressing a virtual book launch event organised by the Observer Research Foundation, Kant said India in the long run must become a manufacturer of solar Read more

    Kolkata, Dec 10: IndianOil and LanzaTech (USA) jointly hosted a virtual global media meet on the theme “Circular Economy Vision ? CO2 Valorization” to share details about the collaboration of two companies for a CO2 project and related vision of the future, where carbon turns from liability to a sustainable opportunity for all. Read more

  State run refiner Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) on Thursday said crude oil throughput at its refineries rose to 100 per cent in November, with demand for petroleum products now close to pre-Covid levels.   “Consumption of all petroleum products has almost reached pre-Covid levels,” IOC said in its statement. It added, IOC’s refining utilisation Read more

  Shri Pradhan said that under Mission Purvodaya, we are building an Integrated Steel Hub in eastern India which would add to the competitiveness of the steel sector and facilitate regional development with job creation. Image Credit: Twitter(@PrakashJavdekar) Union Minister of Petroleum & Natural Gas and Steel Shri Dharmendra Pradhan today said that ‘Aatmanirbhar Bharat’ Read more

  The disinvestment process of Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd has moved on to the second phase, with the government having received “multiple” expressions of interest for its 52.98% stake in the country’s second largest fuel retailer. We examine the state of the disinvestment process of BPCL, which is a key component of the government’s plans Read more

  Pradhan was speaking at an online event where he laid the foundation stone for 50 new LNG retail outlets along the golden quadrilateral and other major national highways. Pradhan said that LNG is going to be the fuel of the future for transport, and in this regard, retro-fitting of the vehicles as well as Read more

  In a letter to Tarun Kapoor, secretary, Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, DN Pathak, executive director of SOPA, said the association has been informed by many of its members that they are not getting adequate supply of hexane. Soya processing is in its peak season with prior commitments of processors to meet the Read more

  The government has said that adequate interest has been received for the strategic disinvestment of public sector refiner Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd (BPCL) with several suitors submitting expressions of interest (EoI). The transaction will move to the second stage after scrutiny by the transaction adviser, said a tweet from the Twitter handle of the Read more