Oil & gas
Vedanta to invest $8 bn in aluminium, zinc, lead and crude oil projects
25 Aug 2018
Anil Agarwal-led Vedanta Resources plans to invest $2.3 bn to increase crude oil reserve base by 375 million barrels as part of the expansion programme
China shifts to Iranian tankers to keep oil flowing amid US sanctions
21 Aug 2018
China, Iran’s biggest oil customer, wants to keep buying Iranian crude even as the United States is trying to halt Iranian oil exports to curb its influence in the Middle East
China gets Iranian oil on Persian tankers
21 Aug 2018
Water use for fracking has risen by up to 770% since 2011
17 Aug 2018
The volume of wastewater new wells generate during their first year of production has also increased -- by up to 1,440 per cent
Adani Gas wins licence to sell CNG, piped cooking gas in 13 cities and nine in JV with IOC
13 Aug 2018
HPCL refuses to recognise ONGC as promoter
10 Aug 2018
Petroleum minister Dharmendra Pradhan today clarified that ONGC with 51.11-per cent stake in the refiner is the new promoter of HPCL, after the company’s CMD Mukesh Kumar Surana refused to recognise the majority shareholder as HPCL’s promoter
RIL wins arbitration against government’s $1.7-bn gas siphoning claim
01 Aug 2018
The arbitration panel held that the RIL consortium is entitled to produce all the gas from its contract area and that there is no basis for any claim of siphoning of gas as claimed by ONGC and the government of India
