Oil & gas
Transocean to pay $1.4 bn for 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill
05 Jan 2013
British oil giant BP, which had leased the rig at the time of the blowout, had already agreed to pay a penalty of $4.5 billion
CAG can fully audit gas producers: Rangarajan
03 Jan 2013
Rangarajan panel moots parity-based gas pricing
02 Jan 2013
Government to hike diesel, power prices as fiscal deficit bites
27 Dec 2012
Oil ministry has sought a Rs10 per litre hike in the retail prices of diesel and kerosene while the prime minister felt power tariffs in the country are too low
Qatar Petroleum eyes ADB stake in Petronet LNG
26 Dec 2012
Rangarajan formula could almost double natural gas price
24 Dec 2012
The Rangarajan Committee on gas pricing has suggested a complex pricing formula that will lead to near doubling of the natural gas price to about $8 per mmbtu against the current price of $4.2 per mmbtu
Judge approves BP class action suit settlement
24 Dec 2012
Export American natural gas? Not so fast, says Stanford economist
By By Max McClure | 20 Dec 2012
Stanford economics Professor Frank Wolak warns of betting against the international spread of shale gas technologies by attempting to export domestic natural gas.
BHP Billiton, ExxonMobil to spend $1 billion on excess carbon treatment at new gas fields in Victoria
15 Dec 2012
RIL shuts down another gas well in D6 block
14 Dec 2012
UK government greenlights shale fracking
14 Dec 2012
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.
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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
