Oil & gas
Ukraine, Russia clash over gas contracts
19 Nov 2012
BP to plead guilty to 14 criminal counts over Gulf of Mexico disaster
16 Nov 2012
If the federal court hearing the case were to approve the plea bargain, the penalties would be the largest ever in a federal criminal case
Petrol prices cut by Rs0.95 per litre
15 Nov 2012
RIL gets DGH nod to start drilling in D-19 field
15 Nov 2012
Australia to rival Qatar in LNG exports by 2016
14 Nov 2012
ExxonMobil's PNG LNG project cost jumps to $19 bn
14 Nov 2012
The LNG project, 70 per cent completed, is on track to commence shipment of first cargo to customers in China, Japan and Taiwan in 2014.
ONGC Q2 net down 31 per cent at Rs5,897 crore
08 Nov 2012
ExxonMobil seeks to exit from $50-bn West Qurna-1 oilfield project in Iraq
08 Nov 2012
ExxonMobil has been locked in a protracted stand-off with the central government in Baghdad over the legality of oil deals granted by the semi-autonomous Kurdistan Regional Government
Argentine court orders seizure of Chevron’s assets to enforce $19-bn Ecuadoran ruling
08 Nov 2012
An Argentine court has ordered to seize US oil giant Chevron Corp's assets in the country in order to carry out an Ecuadorean court ruling that awarded $19 billion to plaintiffs in an environmental damage lawsuit in the Amazon
Japan's Inpex to acquire 26 % in ONGC’s KG basin deep sea block
05 Nov 2012
ONGC continues to be the operator of the block with a 34-per cent participating interest
No objection to CAG audit, but no performance audit please: RIL
03 Nov 2012
The CAG, however, made it clear that its audit of RIL-operated Krishna-Godavari oil and gas block off Andhra Pradesh coast has to be a performance audit and not just a financial one
Exxon Mobil posts Q3 profit of $9.57 billion
02 Nov 2012
Exxon reported higher refining margins despite a decline in production of oil and natural gas, which was the lowest in three years, as output slid everywhere except in Africa and Australia
KG-D6 gas reserves down further
01 Nov 2012
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Market predator Hindenburg preys on Adani stock
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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
