Oil exploration and production companies are counted among the bad boys when it comes to environmental damage.

Prior permission needed, it maintains; decision by the end of December.

Murli Deora For the first time after the announcement of the Cairn-Vedanta deal on August 16, the government today admitted to differences with Cairn over whether the deal required approval under the production sharing contract for the Barmer oil block.

Petroleum Secretary S Sundareshan said there were

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US Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said he is lifting the Obama administration

Kuwait firm evinced interest in partnering ONGC in bidding for blocks to be offe- red for exploration of oil and gas.
Oil and Natural Gas Corp on Tuesday offered Kuwaiti national oil firm a stake in its `19,500-crore mega petrochemical project in Gujarat, even as the oil-rich Gulf nation expressed a desire to bid with the Indian firm in the forthcoming round of NELP.

"We discussed strategic pa

Alberta is forming an independent panel of scientists to study data on water pollution near the Canadian province's oil sands after a report by a noted ecologist concluded the industry's operations were contaminating a northern river system.

The move, announced by Alberta Environment Minister Rob Renner on Friday, is aimed at ending an emotional debate over the impact of oil sands activity on t

Miners and other top Australian firms face greater scrutiny from investors on greenhouse gas emissions, with companies that do not fully disclose their carbon risks to be increasingly targeted at shareholder meetings, an investor group said on Wednesday.

The Investor Group on Climate Change said it wanted all of Australia's top 200 listed companies to reveal data under the global Carbon Disclos

Navi Mumbai airport is not the only city project to have got stuck at the environment ministry headed by Jairam Ramesh.

Nearly 25 other proposals from Maharashtra submitted during Ramesh

The Petroleum and Natural Gas Ministry has provided a block in the 609 sq-km Sohagpur Coalfield, in Madhya Pradesh's Shahdol and Umaria districts, to France-based Geopetrol International Incorporated consortium Reliance Natural Limited and Reliance Infrastructure Ltd for prospecting coal-bed methane.

A petroleum exploration deed was inked here yesterday by the consortium's members and the state

BP may permanently shut the well that caused the worst off-shore oil spill in US history as early as Monday, the company said as speculation grew over assets it might sell to cover mounting costs.