The board of Oil and Natural Gas Corporation has approved the investment of Rs 950 crore (Rs 9.5 billion) extract gas from below the coal seams in Jharkhand and West Bengal from June 2007.
ONGC's chairman and managing director Sudhir Vasudeva tells Business Standard that any price for natural gas that is more than $4.2 a unit is good for the company.
The Mhow golfer scored his fifth triumph on the 2005-06 Amby Valley PGAI Tour.
The government will allow exploration firm Oil and Natural Gas Corporation and Gas Authority of India to market domestic LPG to increase penetration of cooking fuel to 75 per cent of the population.
State-run Oil and Natural Gas Corporation is likely to bid for acquiring the assets of embattled Russian oil major Yukos, Petroleum secretary S C Tripathi said on Thursday.
Total bidding for 292 million shares worth Rs 8,500 cr, against Rs 12,000 cr target.
Prime Minister designate Manmohan Singh on Thursday said the public sector units like the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation and Gail would not be privatised.
OVL in 2007-08 recorded highest ever oil and gas production from its overseas assets. Crude oil production was up 18 per cent to 6.811 million tons, while gas output was marginally lower at 1.962 billion cubic meters. It earned a net profit of Rs 2,397 crore (Rs 23.97 billion).
Oil and Natural Gas Corp has surpassed the Tatas in market capitalisation, with its market value of Rs 104,114.5 crore (Rs 1,041.14 billion) being more than that of all the 26 listed firms of the Tata Group.
ONGC Videsh Ltd and its partners Indian Oil Corporation and Oil India Ltd had in 2009 dropped plans to develop the Binaloud oil find in the Farsi offshore block as it found one billion barrels of reserves commercially unviable.
Public sector Oil and Natural Gas Corporation on Monday said it had earned its highest ever net profit of Rs 14,431 crore (Rs 144.31 billion) in 2005-06, up 11 per cent from Rs 12,983 crore (Rs 129.83 billion) in the previous year.
Aiming to become a $100 billion integrated oil and gas major in 5 years, state-run Oil and Natural Gas Corp has proposed setting up of 7 non-government firms to manage its marketing, well drilling, LNG, logistics, shipping and petrochemical businesse
Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL), Bangalore scored a surprise 4-1 win against Oil & Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC), Delhi in the final of the DCB Presents Aga Khan hockey tournament -- 2011, at the Bombay Gymkhana ground, on Saturday evening.
State-run Oil and Natural Gas Corporation on Wednesday said the by its workers over Monday's helicopter accident had not affected crude oil production and operations were normal.
Oil and Natural Gas Corp, India's largest oil producer, has proposed an investment of Rs 7967 crore (Rs 79.67 billion) in setting up a 7.5 million tonnes refinery at the site of recent oil find in Rajasthan.\n\n
Bangladesh currently faces a daily shortfall in gas supplies of 500 million cubic feet
The asset it owned by Venugopal Dhoot and a US oil and gas explorer.
Oil and Natural Gas Corporation expects to hit the market with a public offering of ten per cent government equity by early March, a top official said on Wednesday.
Oil and Natural Gas Corporation and GAIL India are likely to give 33 per cent lesser discounts on crude oil and cooking gas to the state-owned refining and marketing companies than estimated as oil prices have tumbled in the last three months and the refiners have started making profits.
ONGC is weighing the possibility of merging Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Ltd with itself even as it has laid out capex plans of over Rs 500 crore for the refinery, including product upgrade to meet the Euro III norms.
Confusion prevailed in the Bombay Stock Exchange on Tuesday over a sudden rise in Oil and Natural Gas Corp share price to Rs 1,480, against the last close of Rs 1,256.95.\n\n
Nigeria's new government is reviewing award of oil blocks in last couple of years after it received complaints of irregularities in their allotments, with some quarters expressing apprehensions that the licences won by India's ONGC-Mittal combine may also be under scanner.Although the identities of the blocks as well as the awardees are not immediately known, industry sources said some domestic and foreign entities that obtained licences through 'backdoor' may lose it.
The Petroleum Ministry may have watered down its preconditions for approving mining group Vedanta Resources' acquisition of Cairn India, but the $9.6 billion deal will still hinges on no-objection from partner ONGC.
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The Oil Ministry on October 31 issued orders asking upstream oil and gas producers like ONGC and Oil India Ltd to give Rs 16,729.74 crore (Rs 167.29 billion) to make up for 47 per cent of the Rs 35,328-crore (Rs 353.28 billion) revenue that retailers lost on selling diesel, domestic LPG and kerosene at government controlled rates in second quarter.
The government on Wednesday expressed confidence about the success of the ensuing public issue of Oil and Natural Gas Corporation.
The government has nipped Oil and Natural Gas Corp's exclusive plans to extract liquid petroleum gas and C2/C3 from liquefied natural gas by also allowing gas utility GAIL India to do the same from the common LNG being imported by Petronet.
State exploration firm Oil and Natural Gas Corp on Thursday said it will take 26 per cent equity in Bharat Petroleum Corp Ltd's upcoming 6 million tonnes refinery at Bina in Madhya Pradesh.
State-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corporation is likely to win at least half of the 20 oil and gas block bids which closed on Tuesday.
Oil and Natural Gas Corporation, the country's largest oil and gas producer, is planning to sell 30 to 40 per cent each in two blocks in Vietnam to share the risks and drilling costs. ONGC owns 100 per cent in the two deepwater exploration blocks.
The government has appointed Kotak Mahindra Capital Co, DSP Merrill Lynch and JM Morgan Stanley as book runners for the public issue of 10 per cent equity shares in state exploration firm Oil and Natural Gas Corporation.
ONGC demands certain incentives from the Andhra Pradesh government to go ahead with the Kakinada refinery project
In all, 61 companies have been pre-qualified to bid for 11 shallow water and 19 deepwater blocks in an international tender, according to Myanmar's Energy Ministry.
The government plans to sell 5 per cent of its stake in Oil and Natural Gas Corporation through the further or follow-on public offering which at current prices can fetch up to Rs 13,500 crore (Rs 135 billion).
Over the past week, Sensex surged 858.56 points to 27,079.51, second straight weekly high
