State-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC) has offered a job to Unmukt Chand, captain of Under-19 World Cup-winning team. 'We have today felicitated the star cricketer and decided to make a job offer,' ONGC Chairman and Managing Director Sudhir Vasudeva said.
In the Sensex pack, Vedanta took the biggest hit (5.55 per cent), followed by Tata Motors, SBI, Yes Bank, Bharti Airtel and Infosys, which lost up to 4.50 per cent.
State-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corp plans to invest over Rs 130,000 crore (Rs 1300 billion) during 11th Plan Period (2007-12) in domestic oil and gas hunt, overseas acquisition and expansion of Mangalore refinery.
The Indian oil company has been struggling to generate positive free cash flows given its already high capital expenditure programme and projected rise in its fuel subsidy outgo.
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Oil and Natural Gas Corp, India's largest oil producer, plans to set up new refineries at Rajasthan and Kakinada in Andhra Pradesh, Petroleum Minister Mani Shankar Aiyar said on Thursday.\n\n
In the Sensex pack, ICICI Bank emerged as the top gainer by rising 0.97 per cent, while Tata Steel advanced 0.92 per cent.
State-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corp will invest Rs 985 crore (Rs 9.85 billion) to develop the Bassein East field, which is estimated to contain 97 million tonnes of oil and oil equivalent gas.
India's largest oil producer Oil and Natural Gas Corp will launch its new logo on August 14, the ONGC Day.
Reflecting the bullish mood, all sectoral indices ended with gains, led by auto, oil and gas, FMCG, IT and teck. The broader NSE Nifty, after crossing the 10,600-mark, settled 68.40 points, or 0.67 per cent higher at 10,598.40.
General Soleimani headed the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps's Quds Force and also served as Iran's pointman on Iraq.
This lesser known Bajaj is quietly transforming his family business by focusing less on sugar, where he is the country's largest producer, and getting into power.
ONGC Videsh Ltd, the overseas arm of state-run Oil and Natural Gas Corp, is eyeing oil and gas properties in West Africa, CIS countries and Latin America with plan to invest one billion dollars a year in acquiring equity oil.
Traders said falling crude prices in the global market was a big boost for the economy as it lightens the country's import bill burden, eases inflation and current account deficit concerns.
China National Petroleum Corp, which trailed Oil and Natural Gas-Mittal Group combine when price bids were made on August 15, raised its bid to $4.18-billion to acquire PetroKazakhstan, a Canadian oil firm operating in Central Asia.
Reliance Industries Ltd will give Rs 750 crore (Rs 7.5 billion) discount on LPG and kerosene to public sector petro retailers in 2005-06.
Oil and Natural Gas Corp on Tuesday said it will invest over Rs 6000 crore (Rs 60 billion) annually in acquiring oil properties abroad.
Global oil major British Petroleum and French oil giant Total are eyeing equity in Hindustan Petroleum Corp's Rs 8,336 crore
The Western Ghats Ecology Expert Panel report, submitted by ecologist Madhav Gadgil last year, was further delaying the Rs 30,000-crore (Rs 300-billion) refinery project of Hindustan Petroleum Corp Ltd (HPCL) in Maharashtra, a senior official of the state-run oil marketing firm said. The project has already been delayed due to bureaucratic red tape.
ONGC Videsh and ConocoPhillips said the transaction is expected to close in the first half of 2013.
State-owned Oil & Natural Gas Corp's (ONGC) Krishna Godavari basin well that had been leaking natural gas for over two months now, has stoped flowing gas, the government said.
Jio Platforms is expected to use its 388 million mobile phone subscribers as the cornerstone of an e-commerce and digital services business to rival Amazon and Walmart's Flipkart.
'The PLA has continued to do exercises and drills and recently carried out air exercises with fighter jets.'
Oil and Natural Gas Corp is in talks to hire Reliance Industries' unutilised production facilities on the east to quickly bring to production its gas finds in the Krishna Godavari basin.
Aviation companies were in focus with all the three airliners SpiceJet, InterGlobe Aviation and Jet Airways adding in the range of 2% to 3% on the BSE
ONGC Videsh Ltd, the overseas investment arm of state-run Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC), will take a 40 per cent stake in San Cristobal oilfield in Venezuela.
The Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC), India's biggest oil producer, will restore in two weeks time about 70 per cent of the 100,000 barrels per day output lost due to the massive fire at platform in Mumbai offshore.
The Sensex posted its biggest single-day jump in over a decade at 1,921 points and investors' wealth soared by a staggering Rs 6.8 lakh crore after Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman delivered a surprise cut in corporate tax rates on Friday.
Oil and Natural Gas Corp, which had last year firmed up an investment of Rs 34,012 crore (USD 5.076.37 billion) in bringing to production 10 oil and gas discoveries in its Bay of Bengal block KG-DWN-98/2 (KG-D5), plans to invest another Rs 21,528.10 crore (USD 3.2 billion) in developing the ultra-deepsea UD-1 find.
Sensex hit a record high of 27,225.85 and Nifty hit a record high of 8,141.90 in the intra-day trades today.
Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Wednesday said India will be benefitted economically by having peace with his country as it will enable New Delhi to directly access the resource-rich Central Asia region through Pakistani territory.
ONGC is likely to pay Rs 17,000 cr to subsidise products by the end of this fiscal.
The restraint on part of investors was chiefly because of RBI's minutes of its December policy meeting, which showed that some members were concerned about rising oil prices, its inflationary impact and possibility of fiscal slippage.
The government has set up a committee to work out sharing by producers and retailers the losses likely to accrue from the decision to freeze LPG and kerosene price for a year despite rising cost.\n\n\n\n
Results of some blue-chip companies exceeded expectations, providing additional thrust, traders said.
Barring oil and gas, all BSE sectoral indices finished in the green.
In a setback to the Cairn-Vedanta deal, Solicitor General Gopal Subramanium has reaffirmed that the government can impose preconditions like equitable sharing of royalty in the all-important Rajasthan block for clearing Vedanta Resources' takeover of Cairn India.