South Africa plans to issue licenses permitting exploration of shale-gas reserves in the first quarter, Mineral Resources Minister Susan Shabangu said.

The government will drill four new onshore gas wells by international oil companies (IOCs) to raise output to meet the country's mounting natural gas demand, a top official said Sunday.

Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC), facing a prolonged stagnancy in oil production, has got a shot in the arm with one of its blocks in the Krishna-Godavari basin off the Andhra Pradesh coast,

A Lancashire dairy farmer has joined forces with Greenpeace to launch a legal challenge to fracking in England.

The Marcellus Shale, encompassing 104,000 square miles across Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio, and upstate New York, is the largest source of natural gas in the US.

The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) on Tuesday approved the much-awaited coal block auction policy for private companies that for the first time will allow companies in the power, ceme

Bids invited based on production-linked multiple; company quoting the highest multiple to become preferred bidder

Amid controversy surrounding the allocation of coal blocks to private companies, the Union Cabinet on Tuesday gave its approval for new allocation policies that would govern the auctioning of coal reserves and shale gas acreages in the future.

The statutory auditor is also looking into the pricing of gas produced from RIL's D1 and D3 fields

The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India is likely to pull up the Directorate General of Hydrocarbons (DGH), as well as Reliance Industries, over an alleged hoarding of gas by the Mukesh Ambani-controlled company.

The Cabinet is likely to consider on Tuesday a policy for exploration of shale oil and gas, which will initially allow state-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corporation and Oil India to tap the unconvent

The Centre has lifted a moratorium on environment clearance for new industries in 'highly-polluting' Haldia and Asansol after "pollution controlling norms" were complied with, West Bengal Environme

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