Oil & gas
Govt disallows another $579 mn of RIL’s KG-D6 block costs
14 Jul 2014
The petroleum ministry is not bound to accept investment claims unless Reliance and its partners, BP and Niko Resources, meet production targets
Kurdish forces seize 2 north Iraq oilfields
12 Jul 2014
An oil ministry spokesman in Baghdad described the takeover as dangerous and irresponsible and called for the Kurdish forces to withdraw immediately
RIL appoints UK judge David Steele as arbitrator in gas dispute
07 Jul 2014
David Steele, a London-based commercial law expert, has also been a judge of the Commercial and Admiralty Courts, London and is currently an associate judge of the Dubai International Financial Centre
Govt looking at innovative ways of tackling subsidy burden: oil minister
07 Jul 2014
The government is looking at new reform measures for containing fuel subsidy without giving consumers a price shock
New study links Oklahama earthquakes to fracking
04 Jul 2014
Hydraulic fracturing, known as fracking, a controversial process, uses high-pressure blasts of water mixed with a chemical cocktail that are injected into wells to fracture rock and unlock trapped natural gas
