Oil & gas
Oman to buy stake in Indian gas refiner Petronet
03 Apr 2014
SC revokes appointment of Australian arbitrator in RIL dispute
02 Apr 2014
The Supreme Court today recalled the order after the government said Spigelman's name figured in the list suggested by RIL for appointment as the third arbitrator
SC appoints Australian as third arbitrator in RIL gas dispute
01 Apr 2014
The panel will decide whether RIL deliberately suppressed gas production and if the government is within its rights to penalise it for failure to meet targets
RIL to continue gas sales at current prices from 1 April: report
29 Mar 2014
Reliance Industries and its partners will have to continue gas sales at current prices from RIL's east coast block following a delay in the new pricing regime
RIL, ONGC stocks skid after EC stalls gas price hike
25 Mar 2014
The Election Commission has directed the central government to put the decision to hike the price of natural gas in cold storage as the election process is on and a new government will be in place by the last week of May
EC calls for details on proposed gas price hike
24 Mar 2014
RIL gets partners BP, Niko to fight government
20 Mar 2014
German utility RWE to sell oil and gas unit to Mikhail Fridman’s L1 Energy for $7.10 bn
18 Mar 2014
RWE Dea currently has stakes in more than 180 licences or concessions in oil and gas blocks in 14 countries and is the operator of almost half of them
Exxon and Shell in legal limbo as Crimea may join Russia
12 Mar 2014
Exxon and Royal Dutch Shell Plc had planned to spend $735 million drilling two wells, in a region that comes under Crimean waters
US pressures India to further cut Iranian oil imports
12 Mar 2014
India finds itself obliged to cut its oil imports from Iran by two-thirds from the first quarter of the financial year that begins in April, in keeping with the nuclear deal easing sanctions on Teheran
DGH failed to properly assess RIL gas discoveries: CAG
10 Mar 2014
CAG says the petroleum ministry and Director General Hydrocarbons approved RIL's gas discoveries in the KG-D6 block, without a proper appraisal by the company
IOC to buy 10% in Petronas’s Canadian shale-gas assets, LNG project for $900 mn
08 Mar 2014
Under the deal, IOC will get 1.2 million tonnes of LNG per annum, or 10 per cent of the Pacific Northwest LNG project's production, for a minimum period of 20 years
Sanctions to hurt ExxonMobil's exploration prospects in Russia
06 Mar 2014
Exxon had drilling rights across 11.4 million acres of Russian land, its biggest exploration holding outside the US
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