Oil & gas
Bangladesh may join TAPI gas pipeline project
10 Jul 2012
DGH revokes approval for RIL’s CBM gas price
04 Jul 2012
Under the RIL formula, CBM from its Madhya Pradesh blocks would cost $12.93 per mmBtu against the well-head cost of $4/2/mmBtu for gas flowing from Essar Oil's block in West Bengal
IOC cuts petrol prices by 2.46 to 3.22 per litre
28 Jun 2012
The downward revision in prices, including state levies, varies from state to state depending upon local taxes
Malaysia's Petronas to buy Canada's Progress Energy for $5.4bn
28 Jun 2012
Malysian state-owned oil firm Petronas says the acquisition of Progress is consistent with its strategy of strengthening its position as one of the global leaders in LNG
PSU oil firms likely to cut petrol prices by Rs4 a litre
27 Jun 2012
The decision comes after weeks of fall in the price of crude oil in the international market, which pushed crude to an eight-month low of $89 a barrel last week.
Growth in global oil market slows
26 Jun 2012
Indian ministers fond of gas – quite literally
23 Jun 2012
Even Naveen Jindal loves his share of daily LPG subsidies
23 Jun 2012
Naveen Jindal, well-known industrialist, billionaire and the richest parliamentarian in India, consumes subsidized LPG at the rate of more than a cylinder a day. Why is it so difficult for the rich to just give up these subsidy peanuts and purchase LPG from private retailers at market prices? By Shivshanker Verma
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Market predator Hindenburg preys on Adani stock
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