The state-run Oil and Natural Gas Corporation has walked away with bulk of the 21 oil and gas exploration blocks in the fourth round of new exploration licensing policy.
The rupee will be a key determinant for stock markets.
British Gas Plc on Thursday said it along with Oil and Natural Gas Corporation and Reliance Industries Ltd will invest $138 million in developing the Panna/Mukta and Tapti oil and gas fields to improve production.
Reliance Industries Ltd has posted a 30.16 per cent rise in its net profit at Rs 1,437 crore (Rs 14.37 billion) for the first quarter ended June 30, 2004 as against Rs 1,104 crore (Rs 11.04 billion) in Q1 of the previous financial year.
The joint operators of the Panna/Mukta and Tapti oil and gas fields, British energy firm BG Group, Reliance Industries Ltd and Oil and Natural Gas Corporation, have hiked the price of natural gas produced from the Tapti field.
British oil and gas major BG Group and its Indian partners -- ONGC and Reliance Industries Ltd -- will invest $140 million over the next 18 months in the Panna-Mukta and Tapti oil and gas fields to improve production from the offshore fields.
The RIL-owned Indian Petrochemicals Corporation Ltd has shed its workforce by about 12 per cent as it gave voluntary retirement to 1,550 employees, which would cost the company Rs 120 crore (Rs 1.20 billion) during the current fiscal.
The Standard Chartered Bank has struck an on-shore foreign currency option transaction with Reliance Industries Ltd for $30 million, allowing RIL to hedge its dollar exposure.
Reliance Industries Ltd, India's biggest petrochemicals company, on Thursday reported a consolidated net profit of Rs 5,169 crore (Rs 51.69 billion or $1.17 billion) for the year ended March 31, 2004.
Reliance Industries earned a breather when PSU oil firms revised their requirement of diesel from it to 3.7 million tonnes in 2004-05.
Petronet India Ltd is likely to formally shelve the Rs 2,450 crore (Rs 24.5 billion) central India petroleum product pipeline project this month as its promoters are no longer keen on the project.\n\n\n\n
Unlike the race to buy airwaves by telecom companies, airports by infrastructure companies and city gas networks by energy companies, the race to develop super apps by consumer-facing companies in India has not brushed up against any regulatory issues. Officials at the ministry of electronics and information technology and at other regulators are happy they do not have to meddle in who among the Tata group, Reliance Industries Ltd, Flipkart or Paytm will manage to build an app that sweeps in customers. Unlike separate apps a customer uses on her mobile to order groceries, buy food or airline tickets or just make payments, a super app can perform all these functions.
Credit Suisse said if the deal fructifies, then this will bring together the largest offline and online retailers in India.
Reliance Industries Ltd will begin full-fledged petrol and diesel retailing by June this year after it sets up 300 petrol stations across the country.
Oil and Natural Gas Corporation has struck a large gas field in the Krishna-Godavari basin in Bay of Bengal, home for the gigantic gas find of Reliance Industries Ltd.
Reliance Industries Ltd has committed to invest of $563 million in exploration of oil and gas in the nine blocks it won in consortium with Hardy Oil of UK in the third round of New Exploration Licensing Policy.
Corporate giant Reliance Industries Ltd is looking at setting up a 2,000-3,000 MW, green field, mega power project in Uttar Pradesh -- involving an investment of at least Rs 8,000 crore (Rs 80 billion).
The upsurge in capital market seems to have bypassed the information technology sector where the top 25 companies including Wipro, Infosys, HCL and NIIT, lost almost Rs 66,500 crore in market value since March 8, 2001.
Reliance Industries Ltd plans to invest over Rs 4,500 crore (Rs 45 billion) in laying 5,895 km of product pipelines across the country as a precursor to begin the retailing of petrol and diesel.
Reliance Industries on Friday reported more than doubling of its March quarter net profit to Rs 13,227 crore as improvement in petrochemical and consumer business countered continued weakness in refining business.
India's biggest petrochemicals maker and a leading refiner, Reliance Industries Ltd, said on Monday it has raised product prices of polymers and key fibre intermediates by 2.4 per cent to 27 per cent for February.
The development of the constitution of the tribunal comes at a time when the Delhi high court in December 2020 refused to restrain Amazon from interfering in Future Retail's deal with Reliance Retail by writing to statutory authorities.
Amazon on Sunday won an interim award against its partner Future group selling retail business to Reliance Industries for Rs 24,713 crore after a Singapore-based single judge arbitration panel put the deal on hold. Amazon had dragged Future to arbitration after the Kishore Biyani group firm had agreed to sell businesses to billionaire Mukesh Ambani's Reliance.
Reliance Industries Ltd has made two new gas discoveries at its D-6 block, the site of the world's largest gas find of 2002, in Bay of Bengal.
Vodafone India said on Friday it would launch fourth-generation (4G) mobile phone services in the country by the end of the year.
4G services typically make it much faster than 3G services to surf the web on mobile phones, tablets and laptops.
As India gets ready to roll out one of the largest vaccine programmes, billionaire Mukesh Ambani on Tuesday said his group is working with authorities to provide technology tools and backbone for mass inoculation against COVID-19. Ambani's telecom venture Jio was rolled out four years back, offering free voice calling and dirt-cheap data. Today, Jio is India's largest telecom operator with over 400 million users, each connected to the internet. At a Facebook event, Ambani said the government's digital push kept the country running even during the pandemic and is now helping in the rollout of one of the largest vaccination programmes.
Reliance Industries Ltd has posted a 26.04 per cent rise in net profit at Rs 1,263 crore for the second quarter ended September 30, 2003, compared to Rs 1,002 crore in the same period last fiscal.
Billionaire Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Industries Ltd on Friday announced to raise Rs 7,350 crore from two investors -- Singapore's sovereign wealth fund GIC and Global alternative asset firm TPG -- by selling a stake in group's retail arm.
Reliance Industries Ltd will announce its audited financial results for the year ended 31st March 2003, on Wednesday, April 23.
India's biggest petrochemicals maker and a leading refiner, Reliance Industries Ltd, said on Monday it has raised product prices of polymers and key fibre intermediates by two per cent to 24 per cent for March.\n\n\n\n
Billionaire Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Industries Ltd on Friday reported a 12 per cent rise in December quarter net profit on improving oil-to-chemical business, strong continued momentum in retail and steady telecom unit Jio.
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