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 …
India’s state-run Oil & Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) has joined hands with ConocoPhillips for exploration and development of 19 deepwater oil and gas blocks. The two companies would also be collaborating in shale-gas exploration. ConocoPhillips is the third-largest integrated energy company in the US and the fifth-largest refiner in the …
In the first mega deal in the energy sector this year, public sector Oil and Natural Gas Corporation and US oil giant ConocoPhillips have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for co-operation in exploration and development of shale resources in India, North America and elsewhere besides deepwater opportunities offshore in …
With an ambitious energy agreement, Denmark takes a decisive step towards a society free of coal, oil and natural gas, says a press release issued on Friday. In 2020, half of the electricity consumption will come from wind power (today it's 25 per cent), and the energy consumption will decrease …
Final round of talks among the four participating counties of Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) gas pipeline project would be held in Kabul on April 19 to finalise the structure of the much-needed energy project for India and Pakistan. Federal Secretary Petroleum Mohammed Ejaz Chaudhry, after his return from India where he attended …
State-owned ONGC cornered six blocks - four as operator and two as minority partner - out of the 16 areas that the government awarded for oil and gas exploration, but saw its bids rejected for eight areas, including five deep-sea blocks. Contracts for 16 out of the 33 oil and …
The Petroleum and Natural Gas Ministry, on Wednesday, signed Production Sharing Contracts (PSCs) for the newly awarded 16 oil and gas blocks under the IX round of New Exploration Licensing Policy (NELP), with Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) emerging as the biggest winner with six blocks. However, ONGC saw …
Afghanistan has decided to opt out of the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) pipeline project and if Afghanistan does, then its share of 500 million cubic feet per day (mmcfd) gas will be distributed between Pakistan and India. This was stated by Petroleum Secretary Ejaz Chaudhary while talking to a group of energy …
Power plants account for about 40 percent of America’s global warming emissions — with the bulk of that coming from coal-fired plants. On Tuesday, the Obama administration took another important step for public health and the environment, proposing the first nationwide limits on carbon dioxide from new power plants. If …
The Obama administration proposed on Tuesday the first rules to cut carbon dioxide emissions from new U.S. power plants, a move hotly contested by Republicans and industry in an election year. The Environmental Protection Agency's proposal would effectively stop the building of most new coal-fired plants in an industry that …
Environmental groups are asking a state court to force Wyoming to provide a more complete list of chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, a drilling technique vital to natural gas and oil production in the state. Wyoming in 2010 became the first state to require disclosure of chemicals that …
The natural gas leak at French oil group Total's Elgin platform in the North Sea is not having a major impact on the environment, the company said in a statement on Tuesday. Total said a surveillance aircraft had spotted a sheen on the water near the platform estimated at about …
The Maharashtra government is set to implement some harsh monetary steps from next month, as finance minister Ajit Pawar envisaged a raise in tax rates across sectors in the 2012-13 budget presented on Monday. The proposals are expected to mobilise an additional Rs 600 crore, and make the state revenue-surplus …
New Delhi For the first time, New Delhi is looking to the North American continent to secure its energy needs. India has started talks to import natural gas from Canada, the world’s third-largest producer which is facing falling demand from the US, where a shale gas bounty has brought self …
The Central Electricity Authority (CEA) has said no new gas-based power plants will be set up in the country till 2015-16, as the natural gas output is expected to fall considerably. The CEA in a letter to states indicated that as per Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas reports India's …
Ratnagiri district in Maharashtra may come to be known as the bowl that feeds India’s growing hunger for energy. Staterun utility GAIL is working on a makeover plan that hinges on doubling the capacity of Dabhol power project’s gas import facility to 10 million tonnes a year, said company chairman …
New Delhi After fuel, India is offering to export natural gas to Pakistan to help it tide over a gas crisis. State-owned GAIL’s just-commissioned natural gas pipeline from the West coast to Bhatinda in Punjab is barely 25 km away from the Pakistan border and the gas utility is proposing …
The Karnataka government is in talks with Indian and international energy companies to arrange gas for three power plants for which it is planning to seek bids. Currently, it is in talks with GAIL India and Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd (HPCL) to procure about 26 mmscmd for a total gas …
Government has asked power producers to refrain from setting up new gas-based plants as dwindling fuel supply is threatening viability of 37,000-MW of existing and upcoming projects. The power ministry has issued an advisory to developers for not planning projects based on domestic gas till 2015-16. The directive signalsthat nofurther …
To look into grant of work permits for foreign nationals Seeking to remove the unreasonable roadblocks and to win the confidence of international investors in the oil and gas exploration operations, the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) has stepped in and set up a high-powered Committee of Secretaries (CoS) to examine …
Gazprom, the world’s largest natural-gas exporter, is struggling to get a foothold in the Asian markets leading global economic growth. The Russian company’s plan to supply liquefied natural gas to India from 2016, the year the US is set to start gas exports, is faltering after buyers said they’re looking …
