New fuel for Kolkata vehicles kolkata may soon become the first city in India to have vehicles running on methane if a deal between Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ongc), a private gas distribution company, and the West Bengal government goes through. ongc and Calcutta Compressions and Liquefaction Engineering, a Kolkata-based company, signed a memorandum of understanding on July 10

Aircraft makers, airlines, airports and air traffic controllers pledged on Tuesday to work towards "carbon-neutral growth" and reduce their industry's contribution to global warming. The declaration committed commercial players including Embraer, Bombardier, Boeing and Airbus to support cleaner fuels, improve fuel efficiency, better manage air routes, and work "to achieve greenhouse gas reductions wherever they are cost-effective." "We are committed to a pathway to carbon-neutral growth and aspire to a carbon-free future," the signatories said.

Apache Corp., the US oil and gas company operating on five continents, and Santos plan to build an $800 million natural gas project in Western Australia to benefit from rising prices for the fuel. The partners have approved the Devil Creek project, which will tap gas from the offshore Reindeer field for supply to customers in Western Australia, Tim Wall, managing director of Apache's Australian unit, said in an interview. The project may start up in 2010, Apache says on a Web site on the project.

Australian construction company Leighton Holdings Ltd on Tuesday announced that it has bagged a contract from Oil and Natural Gas Corporation worth $720 million for building an oil and gas pipeline in

The proposed gas allocation policy, which will override the government's commitment to allow sale and purchase of gas on the basis of market diktats, has cast a shadow over the country's emerging

East-West pipeline is the longest in India. The pipeline to evacuate gas from Reliance Industries (RIL) block in the Krishna-Godavari (KG) basin