Oil & gas
Halliburton to admit it destroyed evidence on Gulf of Mexico disaster
26 Jul 2013
The plea agreement arrived yesterday with the US Justice Department (DoJ), comes after the Houston-based company had initially aggressively denied that it was in any way responsible for the oil spill, the largest in US history
Gas export deal with Pakistan in the pipeline, says GAIL
26 Jul 2013
Gail says pipeline exports to Pakistan are viable and should be looked at in the context of India importing gas through the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India pipeline
Cairn India to invest $3 bn in new projects
24 Jul 2013
Energy major Cairn India will invest about Rs16,000 crore ($3 billion) in oil and gas exploration activities at its flagship oilfields in Rajasthan, besides other blocks in India.
RIL’s Q1 net rises nearly 19% to Rs5,352 cr; revenue dips
19 Jul 2013
Helped by higher refining margins, RIL’s basic earnings per share for the quarter ended 30 June 2013 rose to Rs16.6 from Rs13.8 in April-June 2012
Govt clears RIL's $1.5-bn KG-D6 capex; Moily sees gas output rising by 2016-17
19 Jul 2013
RIL expects the $1.5 billion investment to push up gas production at the KG-D6 field from the current 19.178 million standard cubic metres per day to 19.781 mscmd by 2016-17
Apache Corp to sell Gulf of Mexico shelf assets to Fieldwood Energy for $3.75 bn
19 Jul 2013
The sale involves one of the company's biggest energy exploration blocks in the Gulf of Mexico, which has produced more oil and gas in the shallow part of this region than any of its competitors.
Chevron, Argentina’s YPF in $1.24-bn shale deal
17 Jul 2013
Indian Oil in talks to buy Petronas Canadian shale gas assets
10 Jul 2013
Petronas, one of the world's largest producers and shippers of supercooled LNG fuel,is raising finances to fund its proposed $20-billion Pacific Northwest LNG project
Featured articles
Lighter than air, yet very, very powerful
By Kiron Kasbekar | 03 Jan 2024
In March 2013 Chinese scientists pulled off a remarkable feat. They created the world’s lightest aerogel. Tipping the scales at a mere 0.16 milligrams per cubic centimeter – that’s a sixth of the weight of air!
COP28 explained: A closer look at COP28's climate change solutions
By Aniket Gupta | 27 Dec 2023
The 28th United Nations Climate Change Conference, also known as COP28, took place from 30th November 2023, to 13th December 2023, at Expo City in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
What is a Ponzi scheme?
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The Rise and Rise of HDFC Bank
03 Jul 2023
HDFC, which surged ahead of global majors like HSBC Holdings Plc and Citigroup Inc and left Indian peers like State Bank of India and ICICI Bank in market capitalisation, now ranks fourth largest among the world’s most valuable banks, after JPMorgan Chase & Co, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Ltd and Bank of America Corp
India’s Millet Revolution To Enrich Global Food Basket
02 Apr 2023
Millets, a healthier and cheaper substitute to wheat and rice, are indigenous to many parts of the world, especially in the semiarid tropics of Asia and Africa, and offers a big scope for expanding production and consumption in the foodgrain deficient African continent
Market predator Hindenburg preys on Adani stock
06 Mar 2023
Almost a month after the damning report of short-seller Hindenburg Research on the Adani Group that claimed that the seven stocks within the group were about 85 per cent overvalued, one of the group's stocks, Adani Total Gas, closed at Rs835 on the BSE, down nearly 79 per cent from its 24 January level, almost close to reaching that valuation
