Pact will ensure smooth supply of gas to power units in Andhra Pradesh

Seeking to end the power woes of Andhra Pradesh and ensuring smooth supply to power plants in the State, GAIL (India) on Thursday entered into a deal with Reliance Industries Ltd.

Delhi will soon get rid of problems related to scarcity and adulteration in kerosene oil being used by lakhs of poor families for cooking every day as new scheme is coming up replacing kerosene stoves.

The Delhi government, along with the union government, has been giving final touches to a scheme which will replace kerosene oil stoves with LPG and further provide subsidy through banks to the p

It's time the petroleum ministry faced the challenges of oil pricing reforms, instead of hiding behind the oil firms
A K Bhattacharya / New Delhi January 18, 2011, 0:14 IST

A quick estimate suggests that international crude oil prices for Indian refineries (or what oil industry experts refer to as the Indian crude oil basket) have gone up 22 per cent since the government decontrolled petrol pr

Indicus Analytics / New Delhi January 6, 2011, 0:05 IST

The benefits of subsidised LPG fail to trickle down to low-income households in India

Just about 40 per cent of the population in developing countries has access to modern cooking fuels

PM Expresses Concern Over Effect On People
New Delhi: Consumers may be in a soup over sky-rocketing prices of onion and tomoto, but they can expect some relief on at least one front. The government has hit the pause button on raising diesel and cooking gas prices for fear of fuelling a spiralling effect on the cost of all goods and services.

China will start developing unconventional gas sources within 10 years to fuel its massive economy, possibly bringing down global liquefied petroleum gas prices, a senior energy consultant said on Thursday.

The expanding country faced with flat to declining production of normal gas sources in 20 years aims to do geologic tests and approve projects within a decade for resources such as shale gas

Broken plastic buckets and piles of old polythene bags being converted into petrol

Left over food and vegetable waste discarded in the garbage could soon be used to generate bio cooking gas (alternative to LPG) in the Capital.

New Delhi: Ruling out any rollback in cooking gas and kerosene prices, petroleum minister Murli Deora on Tuesday said that the increase was

The petrol pricing strategy of oil marketing companies (OMCs) is likely to be clear in the second fortnight of this month. The oil companies have been consulting each other to decide the periodicity of petrol price revision.

Petroleum Secretary S Sundareshan said the OMCs were having consultations to decide the frequency of price revisions.

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