Natural Gas

Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding violation of environmental norms by a tyre pyrolysis plant, village Sakauti, Shamli, Uttar Pradesh, 28/05/2025

Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Dr. Amit Kumar Vs State of Uttar Pradesh & Others dated 28/05/2025. The applicant has raised a grievance against setting up of a tyre pyrolysis plant by M/s Adideva Carbon LLP. According to the applicant, the tyre pyrolysis plant has …

OVL keen on stake in Russia's Arctic oil and gas fields

ONGC Videsh Ltd (OVL), the overseas arm of state-owned Oil & Natural Gas Corp (ONGC), is eyeing stake in Russia’s ambitious Arctic Ocean oil and gas projects with US major ExxonMobil and Italian energy giant ENI. OVL on May 4 wrote to Russian state oil company Rosneft expressing interest in …

GAIL moves SC against PNGRB’s decision

New Delhi GAIL India has moved the Supreme Court challenging the Appellate Tribunal for Electricity order that upheld the PNGRB’s decision to accept the technical bid of the Gujarat State Petronet-led consortium for laying the R5,000-crore Mallavaram-Bhopal-Bhilwara-Vijaipur gas pipeline project. GSPL, which currently operates about 2,000 km of pipelines in …

Opportunities and challenges for a sustainable energy future

Access to clean, affordable and reliable energy has been a cornerstone of the world’s increasing prosperity and economic growth since the beginning of the industrial revolution. Our use of energy in the twenty-first century must also be sustainable. Solar and water-based energy generation, and engineering of microbes to produce biofuels …

CCEA to take up award of 8 blocks under NELP today

New Delhi The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) is likely to consider awarding of eight more oil and gas blocks that were offered in the ninth round of bidding under New Exploration Licensing Policy (NELP), on Tuesday. The government had offered 34 areas for exploration and production of oil …

Huge discovery off west coast to boost ONGC’s sagging oil output

New Delhi State-run oil explorer ONGC said on Saturday it has made a huge oil discovery off the west coast that will help the state-owned firm raise its sagging oil output. The new discovery was made in the currently producing D1 oilfield. The find “will catapult D1 to become the …

Ministry rejects GVK’s request for using high speed diesel at AP power plant

The Ministry of Environment and Forest has rejected GVK Group's request for using high speed diesel (HSD) instead of natural gas at one of its power generation plants in Andhra Pradesh. The Expert Appraisal Committee of MoEF, while rejecting the GVK Group’s request, advised it to submit an application which …

India lost 7 bn units in power generation during Apr-Jun: Govt

The country witnessed a peak power shortage of 9% from April to June this year The country suffered power generation loss of close to seven billion units from April to June this year, mainly on account of coal and gas shortage. "During April-June, 2012, the power utilities have reported a …

SC notice to Centre, IGL on PNGRB powers to fix tariff

New Delhi The Supreme Court on Thursday issued notice to Delhi’s gas utility Indraprastha Gas Ltd (IGL) and the Centre on a petition challenging the Delhi High Court judgment that held that petroleum and natural gas regulator PNGRB has no jurisdiction to fix rates or regulate gas tariffs. A bench …

Tripura Govt seeks gas-based industrial units

AGARTALA, Aug 9 – Tripura Industries Minister Jitendra Chowdhury called upon potential investors to set up gas-based industrial units in Tripura as natural gas is available at a very attractive price. Chowdhury, who was speaking at a business conference on oil and gas in Kolkata, said the price of natural …

Oil Min puts on hold order for diverting Reliance gas to Dabhol

New Delhi Facing flak for slashing natural gas supplies to fuel-starved power plants across the country so that requirement of one station in Maharashtra can be met, the Oil Ministry has kept in abeyance its order diverting Reliance Industries' KG-D6 gas to Dabhol plant. The ministry had on August 1 …

Gujarat-J&K gas pipeline to be completed in 36 months

SRINAGAR: Rs 880 crore gas pipeline project from Gujarat to Jammu and Kashmir will be completed within 36 months. This was revealed by the officials of Gujarat State Petronet Ltd (GSPL) during the power point presentation made in a high-level meeting chaired by Minister for Revenue, Relief and Rehabilitation, Raman …

SC nod to arbitration panel on KG-D6 row

New Delhi The Supreme Court on Tuesday approved an arbitral panel comprising its two former chief justices, S P Bharucha and VN Khare, to resolve a dispute between Mukesh Ambani-run Reliance Industries (RIL) and the ministry of petroleum and natural gas over the recovery of cost for developing the eastern …

Govt approves RIL’s KG plans for 3 years

New Delhi A regulatory panel overseeing the affairs of Reliance Industries’ (RIL) most prolific KG-D6 gas block has approved field development investments for three years starting 2010-11 with riders, oil ministry sources said on Tuesday. The panel also gave conditional approval to ‘declaration of the commerciality’ of the D-29, D-30 …

Govt approves RIL’s KG plans for 3 years

A regulatory panel overseeing the affairs of Reliance Industries’ (RIL) most prolific KG-D6 gas block has approved field development investments for three years starting 2010-11 with riders, oil ministry sources said on Tuesday. The panel also gave conditional approval to ‘declaration of the commerciality’ of the D-29, D-30 and D-31 …

Bengal govt plans gas-based power plant in PPP model

The first proposed power plant was planned in Durgapur with a capacity between 100-350 MW In view of coal crisis in thermal power plants, the West Bengal government has mooted a plan to set up gas based power plants in the state in the PPP model. "There is a preliminary …

CM seeks 500MW from Centre

Jaipur: Chief minister Ashok Gehlot on Monday assured the Centre that the state would abide by the all the regulations with regard to drawing power from the Northern Grid. The assurance came during the chief ministers’ and state power ministers’ meeting on Grid Supply Management held in Delhi, and presided …

India has declared three KG D6 discoveries commercial: oil min source

RELIANCE-APPROVAL:India has declared three KG D6 discoveries commercial: oil min source A panel of Indian officials, including those from the upstream regulator, have declared three gas discoveries in Reliance Industries KG D6 block as commercial, subject to certain conditions, an oil ministry official told reporters. Reliance's budgeted expenditure on key …

GAIL, VMC complete formalities for natural gas supply JV

All the required formalities have been completed for the launch a joint venture company between Vadodara Municipal Corporation (VMC) and GAIL India for supply of natural gas in the city and surrounding areas. Talking to PTI here on Sunday, VMC Commissioner Ashwini Kumar gave this information and also expressed hope …

Govt plan to enhance gas-based power capacity in danger

Even as the Power Ministry is struggling to find answers to last week’s nation-wide blackout which had plunged 90 per cent of the country into darkness, its plans to enhance gas-based power capacity seems to be in danger of receiving a serious setback as owing to constantly dipping domestic output …

Power companies lose Rs 550 cr in 2 days

The massive electricity grid failure earlier this week, that left a majority of India in darkness, has impacted the volumes of power generation companies. The worst power black-out in the world hit their revenues by an estimated Rs 550 crore in two days. The companies affected by the grid collapse …

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