A leading Australian firm SMEC International has joined hands with Clough Engineering and Integrated Solutions (CEIS) to enhance its activities in the exploration of oil and gas in Pakistan. Australian High Commission in Pakistan and CEIS hosted a reception at the embassy to celebrate the acquisition of CEIS by the SMEC International.

The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) today approved splitting of an oil and gas block falling in Assam and Nagaland into two so that exploration that previously could not be completed in Nagaland can now be taken up.

The tepid response to the eighth round of the New Exploration Licensing Policy questions its overwhelming merits
Bids have been received for only 36 of the 70 blocks, offered for exploration in the eighth round of the New Exploration Licensing Policy (NELP). The government remains sanguine about the response, considering the global financial situation. But the fact is that it was a damp squib.

Environmental and pro-drilling advocates pitched dueling messages about expanded offshore oil and natural gas production to the U.S. Interior Department on Monday, as the comment period on a Bush-era energy plan came to a close.

HYDERABAD: The stage is being set for Andhra Pradesh government to enter into oil and gas exploration and production (E&P) business.

Clearing the decks for floating a new corporation on the lines of the Gujarat State Petroleum Corporation from its side, the AP Industrial Infrastructure Corporation on Tuesday formally decided to enter into a joint venture agreement with the AP Genco.

THE GOVERNMENT will relaunch the country's largest-ever auction of oil and gas blocks on August 8 and will extend the last date of bidding by two months to mid-October.

With the finance minister, Mr Pranab Mukherjee restoring tax breaks for natural gas, the government will relaunch the nation

Anil AmbaniThe Anil Ambani-led Reliance Natural Resources Ltd (RNRL) has appealed to the Supreme Court to restrain Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) from supplying natural gas up to 40 million metric standard cubic metres a day (mmscmd) to any party other than itself.