Oil & gas
Deora to demand Rs30,000 crore oil bonds at meeting with PM
13 Jan 2010
The petroleum ministry says plans to seek Rs30,000 in oil bonds to help public sector oil marketing companies cover their losses due to oil subsidies at the retail level
Kolkata gets desperate for LPG after auto strike
13 Jan 2010
Santos to sell Gladstone LNG stake to fund growth projects
11 Jan 2010
According to analysts, the stake sale will relieve Santos from its tight liquidity position, and help the company finance the requirements at Gladstone and the Papua New Guinea LNG
Oil settles above $80- experts ponder if level will hold
05 Jan 2010
After dithering in a narrow range for a considerable period of time oil prices finally settled above $80 on short term indicators and long term expectations that economy will get better this year.
Crude prices rise above $81 on supply fears
04 Jan 2010
Oil gains 78 per cent in 2009
02 Jan 2010
Oil prices notched the biggest annual gain in a decade, climbing a massive 78 per cent in 2009.
CNPC consortium wins $9.7 billion Turkmenistan gas contract
01 Jan 2010
A consortium of China National Petroleum Corp and companies from South Korea and the United Arab Emirates has won contracts worth $9.7 billion to develop the Yolotan natural gas field in Turkmenistan.
ONGC strikes gas in Tripura
29 Dec 2009
Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited has struck a new gas well at Sundaribari in South Tripura district, about 125 km from Agartala.
Chinese oil firms in deal to exploit Venezuela's Orinco oil belt
28 Dec 2009
China National Offshore Oil Corporation has signed a deal to help Venezuela exploit its Orinoco petroleum belt, which in turn would more than double the country’s exports to China to 1 million barrels per day.
India targets 20 per cent biofuel usage by 2017
26 Dec 2009
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