A study by the Wildlife Conservation Society documents that intense development of the two largest natural gas fields in the continental U.S.

The government has formally constituted an Inter-Ministerial Group (IMG) for developing a coordinated approach for optimal exploitation of coal bed methane (CBM), underground coal gasification and

New Delhi: Reflecting a slowdown in the economy, the growth rate of eight core infrastructure sectors dipped to 2% in March and 4.3% during 2011-12 on account of poor performance in crude oil and n

NEW DELHI: A Parliamentary panel has asked oil ministry and DGH to closely monitor Reliance Industries' flagging KG-D6 gas fields saying any production decline should be supported by proper evaluat

The Petroleum and Natural Gas Ministry has rejected the “integrated development plan” submitted by Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) and its partner British Petroleum (BP plc) for development and production of 16 gas discoveries and instead asked it to restrict pre-development expenses only to fields that have proved commercial viability.

The Managing Committee (MC), led by the Directorate-General of Hydrocarbons (DGH) chief, rejected the proposal for undertaking concept validation and front-end engineering design (FEED) for all the 16 discoveries around the present productive Dhirubhai-1 and 3 fields in the KG-D6 block.

New Delhi A regulatory panel has allowed Reliance Industries to carry out surveys on 12 satellite fields in the deep water D6 block in the east coast, subject to the condition that this expense would become eligible for recovery only if a subsequent field development plan is approved by the authorities.

The management committee overseeing the performance of the D6 block in the Krishna Godavari basin decided last Friday that RIL could make investments in geophysical and geo-technical surveys and other studies in the R series fields (D34) at its own cost. The RIL-BP-NIKO consortium has to bear the risk involved in making this investment.

New Delhi The initial hype over India’s shale gas potential seems to be making way for a more sober assessment of the unconventional energy that could actually be extracted from rock formations.

From an initial assessment of 300 trillion cubic feet (TCF) to 2,100 TCF of producible and non-producible gas present in Indian basins (called in-place gas), the latest study has brought down the ‘technical recoverable’ gas to about 6.1 TCF.

A Brazilian judge moved two $11 billion civil cases against Chevron and drilling-rig operator Transocean related to an offshore drilling accident and spills to a different court in Rio de Janeiro,

Unavailability of natural gas and destruction of forests and water bodies due to our inability to use our coal fields optimally is having a huge impact on our health and environment

Two monopolies. One private; the other public. One in gas; the other in coal. Both equally disastrous for the environment. I speak here of Reliance Industries Ltd and Coal India Ltd.