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

Shell has agreed to pay $1.1 million for air-quality violations from the vessels it used to drill two oil-exploration wells in Arctic waters off Alaska last year, federal regulators said.

Tuesday, August 27, 2013 - Karachi—The government is committed to provide all sort of support to oil and gas exploration activities with a motive to develop local energy resources to cater to growi

MOSCOW: Greenpeace accused Russia on Monday of trying to block its protest against offshore drilling in the mineral-rich but ecologically fragile Arctic after Russian coastguards boarded its vessel

Another PIL has been filed in the Supreme Court seeking cancellation of the contract awarded to Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) and Canada-based NIKO Resources for exploration and production of natur

WWF warns of environmental disaster and permanent conflict if British firm begins drilling for oil inside Virunga national park

Over the last few months, the ministry of petroleum and natural gas (MoPNG) has cleared around 200 pending management committee (MC) resolutions involving oil and gas blocks operated by both public

It, however, says that the sample collected during exploration activity should not be used for commercial activity

The Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) has accorded 'green signal' to Oil India Ltd's (OIL's) proposed exploration activities in KG–ONN–2004/1 block in the Krishna-Godavari basin.

Cairn India, on Tuesday, announced that it had made the 26th oil discovery in its Rajasthan block.

The block management committee had approved the exploration work programme for the RJ-ON-90/1 block on February 14 after which Cairn India commenced drilling of its first exploration well, Raageshwari-South-1, on February 25 located in the southern part of the block. “Technical evaluations indicate about 10 metres of gross oil column within Dharvi Dungar formation.