India is expanding infrastructure including building new LNG import plants and connecting households with an expanding gas pipe network
28 Jun 2020 10:29 AM
Fuel consumption at 14.65 million tonnes in May was 47.4 per cent higher than April but 23.3 per cent lower than a year earlier
16 Jun 2020 4:36 PM
Reliance holds 66.6 per cent interest in block KG-DWN-98/3 or KG-D6 in the Bay of Bengal.
08 Oct 2019 12:23 PM
According to Pradhan, after expanding these facilities, 70 per cent population will get clean energy.
24 Jun 2019 3:14 PM
Govt's plan to offer PSUs special incentives for natural gas discoveries in difficult, unviable areas will raise natural gas production.
10 Feb 2019 4:04 PM
The combination of high international oil prices and a depreciating rupee has made imports costlier.
08 Oct 2018 3:48 PM
India, the world’s third-biggest oil importer, will buy 9 million barrels of Iranian oil in November.
08 Oct 2018 1:51 PM
Pradhan announced that state-owned fuel marketing companies will purchase all the bio-gas from these plants.
01 Oct 2018 2:30 PM
Diverting sugarcane juice for directly making ethanol, which can be doped in petrol, is common across the major sugar producing nations.
12 Sep 2018 5:49 PM
The sanctions, which would come into force from November 4, are likely to block current payment routes used to pay for Iranian imports.
08 Aug 2018 6:06 PM
The terminal will be in addition to the similar facilities planned by Indian firms in Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.
03 Aug 2018 1:01 PM
The liability is to be split between the three companies in proportion to their stake in the fields.
25 Jul 2018 5:27 PM
In 2017-18, India bought 22.6 million tonnes of crude oil from Iran, Pradhan said.
25 Jul 2018 5:15 PM
Pradhan said the government also decided to give tax exemption on capital spending on oil and gas blocks given before 1999.
18 Jul 2018 6:44 PM
GAIL renegotiated the terms of the 20-year deal to import 2.5 million tonnes a year of LNG.
18 Jul 2018 2:31 PM
The LNG cargo was received by Oil Minister Dharmendra Pradhan.
04 Jun 2018 4:08 PM
GAIL India Ltd will bring the shipload of LNG from Gazprom at Petronet LNG Ltd's import terminal.
03 Jun 2018 2:13 PM
DSF Round-I was a success which has given "immense confidence on the upcoming discoveries under DSF-II".
14 May 2018 6:00 PM
Naidu said the Centre had between November 2014 and January 2016 hiked excise duty on petrol and diesel nine times.
11 May 2018 4:27 PM
Pradhan said the states should cut sales tax or VAT on petrol and diesel to ease the burden.
26 Apr 2018 4:56 PM