A working group on petroleum & natural gas sector for the 12th Fiver Year Plan (2012-17) has been constituted by the Planning Commission with participants from different departments of Government of India, energy experts and concerned public & private sector oil companies.

The “Basic Statistics on Indian Petroleum & Natural Gas, 2010-11” is the sixteenth in a series that was first released in 1996. It is a skeletal forerunner of the detailed annual Statistics Bulletin published regularly after the end of the financial year.

The purpose of this Petroleum Exploration and Production Policy 2011 (Policy) is to establish the policies, procedures, tax and pricing regime in respect of petroleum exploration and production (E&P) sector.

Key World Energy Statistics produced by the IEA contains timely, clearly-presented data on supply, transformation and consumption of all major energy sources.

This report surveys the publicly available estimates of subsidies to biofuels and conventional liquid transport fuels,
including both consumption subsidies and the production subsidies provided to the oil industry. This report:

The publication titled “Energy Statistics 2011”, is brought out every year by Central Statistics Office (CSO) and the present one is 18th in the series.

This Report of the Standing Committee on Petroleum & Natural Gas deals with the action taken by the Government on the Recommendations contained in the Twenty-Third Report (Fourteenth Lok Sabha) of the Standing Committee on Petroleum & Natural Gas (2008-2009) on "Oil Refineries – A Critique?" which was presented to Lok Sabha on 18.12.2008.

Tar sands - bitumen that is extracted and upgraded to produce synthetic crude - has been heavily criticised for its poor environmental and social outcomes, locally and globally. Tar

The petroleum sector, which includes the production, import, processing, transportation, and distribution of crude oil and refined products such as gasoline, heating oil, diesel, propane, and jet fuel, is a significant source of U.S. greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.