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 …

Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline a bad idea: US

The proposed multi-billion gas pipeline between Iran and Pakistan is a bad idea, a top US official has said, a day after Islamabad vowed to progress on the project whose final destination is expected to be India, but New Delhi so far has remain out of it. “We’ve seen this …

Dhaka joins 6-nation move

Faulting the world for not doing enough to curb climate change, the United States on Thursday announced the formation of a six-nation coalition including Bangladesh to cut short-lived pollutants that speed up warming and harm health. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the coalition of the US, Bangladesh, Canada, Mexico, …

Gas pricing should be transparent: E&Y

The Central Government should frame a transparent mechanism for pricing of natural gas that rewards producers for undertaking risky upstream business, Ernst & Young has said. “Framing of transparent pricing mechanism for natural gas is critical as it needs to reward gas producers for undertaking risky upstream operations,” E&Y; said …

U.S. Leads Low-Cost Bid To Curb Global Warming Pollutants

The United States said on Thursday it will contribute $12 million to a six-country initiative to fight against climate change by low-cost programs, such as promoting clean cooking stoves. Announcing the initiative, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton acknowledged the plan does not address carbon dioxide emissions, the primary cause of …

Malaysia's Petronas finds gas fields off Borneo island

Malaysia's Petroliam Nasional Bhd (Petronas) said on Monday it has made two gas discoveries off the coast of Borneo island, as the national oil firm makes a greater push for domestic exploration to shore up flagging output. Petronas made the two gas discoveries in Kasawari and NC8SW fields off the …

Pakistan loses 2pc production of GDP annually: WB

The Pakistan’s estimated production loss to the economy is 2 per cent of the GDP per annum and may be more due to power shortages and load shedding which have adversely affected economic and commercial activities. The World Bank (WB) in its report reveled that power generation in Pakistan is …

RPower Pins Hopes on Govt for Fuelling its Andhra Plant

Anil Ambani’s Reliance Power is hopeful the government will allocate natural gas to operate its new 2,400-mw plant in Andhra Pradesh, where shortterm electricity prices have jumped to . 19 per unit, more than three times the national average, because of soaring demand and inadequate transmission network. An empowered group …

Gas and air

Natural-gas operations could leak enough methane to tarnish their clean image. (Editorial)

Air sampling reveals high emissions from gas field

Methane leaks during production may offset climate benefits of natural gas.

CIL, RIL lead decline in mining output

Hit by a dip in production of coal from Coal India Ltd (CIL) and gas from private sector major Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL), the mining sector is set to contract by 2.2 per cent this year. The sector grew five per cent in 2010-11. While the mining sector accounts for …

Oilmin Renews Plans to Penalise RIL for D6 Gas Output Fall

Ministry wants to deduct $1.24 b from contractor’s share due to fall in output. The oil ministry is making a fresh attempt to financially penalise Reliance Industries for the fall in natural gas output from the D6 block even as it wants to avoid arbitration over the same issue, government …

Power-ful Guj seeks Centre’s help

Wants GoI To Buy State’s 1,100MW Of Unutilized Gas-Based Power Gandhinagar: It is not just surplus solar power beyond a certain cap being produced in Gujarat that the state government wants the Government of India (GoI) to buy up as it “cannot be utilized” at home. Well-placed Sachivalaya sources now …

Now, CAG to quantify loss to exchequer on RIL gas output

The next salvo from the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) may come in the form of year-wise figures of the loss to the exchequer because of falling gas production from Reliance Industries Ltd’s KG-D6 field. How the CAG’s Rs 1.76-lakh-crore loss figure it came out for 2G telecom spectrum allocation …

Iran issues ultimatum to India over gas field

TEHRAN: Iran has given a one-month ultimatum to an Indian consortium over the development of a gas field whose delay by India has been attributed to western pressure, the semi-official Fars news agency reported on Sunday. Tension between Iran and the West rose last month when Washington and the European …

Oil Ministry dismisses RIL’s demand for gas price revision

Asserting that there is no case for revision in price of natural gas price, the Petroleum and Natural Gas Ministry has dismissed the demand by Mukesh Ambani-owned Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) to seek a revision of gas price for the KG-DWN-98/3 block on the East coast of Andhra Pradesh on …

Europe Freeze Kills 89, Fears Rise Over Russian Gas

Record-low temperatures in parts of Eastern Europe pushed the death toll from Arctic conditions to at least 89 people on Wednesday, and have forced Russian gas provider Gazprom to warn over supplies to Europe. Europe had enjoyed a relatively mild winter up until last weekend, but a Siberian system swinging …

Fertiliser industry wants higher gas price in new urea policy

The fertiliser industry is seeking a higher cap on urea cost than the proposed $340 a tonne for the purpose of calculating subsidy to the new plants. With the fertiliser ministry in the process of finalising recommendations for a New Investment Policy in Urea, the industry also wants that the …

Transition to energy secure future: policies enabling energy transition in India

India’s fossil fuel dominated energy mix poses various challenges to the country. First, the over-reliance on the imported fuel makes the country vulnerable supply challenges due to geopolitical turbulence in the energy producing regions, second, use of hydrocarbon sources has been adversely affecting the environment and human health, third, the …

Oil min asks RIL to withdraw arbitration notice

New Delhi The petroleum ministry has asked Reliance Industries to immediately withdraw its arbitration notice against the proposed move to curtail cost-recovery at its KG-D6 gas fields, saying ‘‘as on date’’, there was no cause for such action. Partha Sarthi Das, director in the exploration divi -ion of the ministry, …

State's 'gas gateway' pipeline dream gets financial backing

GANDHINAGAR: Gujarat's dream of becoming the 'gas gateway' to North India received strong financial backing worth Rs 4,500 crore from a dozen-odd nationalized banks on Monday, when state-sector company, Gujarat State Petronet Ltd (GSPL), signed up an agreement with the consortium led by Bank of India to fund the 2,200-km-long …

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