The Cabinet Committee of Economic Affairs has approved a hike in gas prices from April 2014.
British oil and gas major BG Group, Oil and Natural Gas Corp and Reliance Industries agreed to jointly operate Panna-Mukta and Tapti oil and gas fields, ending the year long row over who would manage the highly-profitable producing fields.
Oil regulator DGH has recommended stiff penalties on state-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corp and Reliance Industries Ltd for default on commitments made by them on oil and gas exploration blocks awarded under NELP.
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.
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.
Italy's Eni welcomed the Indian company. The other four partners have 60 days from date agreement.
ONGC Videsh Ltd, the overseas arm of state-run Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC), is believed to be close to making a $2.5 billion bid to takeover Russia-focused oil company Imperial Energy.Imperial Energy is an upstream oil and gas exploration and production company focused on the Commonwealth of Independent States.
The government is mulling hiving off ONGC Videsh Ltd, India's flagship firm for overseas oil asset acquisition, from Oil and Natural Gas Corp into a separate entity to be owned jointly by public sector oil firms.
While markets are upbeat over the government decision to nearly double the price of domestically produced natural gas, industry wants it to clearly lay the roadmap for free market pricing regime.
After ONGC and IFFCO, state-run gas firm GAIL on Tuesday said it would bid for acquiring controlling stake in oil refiner Hindustan Petroleum Corporation if it was permitted by the government policy.
British energy firm BG Group on Thursday said it along with its partners state-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corp and Reliance Industries Ltd will invest $140 million in Panna oil and gas fields
Oil and Natural Gas Corp on Tuesday said it will invest over Rs 6000 crore (Rs 60 billion) annually in acquiring oil properties abroad.
Russian oil and gas firm Gazprom will not partner India's state-run Oil and Natural Gas Corp in bidding for the subsidiary company of troubled Russian energy giant Yukos.
In its biggest acquisition till date, OVL, the overseas arm of Oil & Natural Gas Corp in November agreed to pay US energy giant ConocoPhillips about $5 billion for the 8.4 per cent stake in Kashagan, the biggest oilfield discovery in over four decades.
ONGC Videsh Ltd, the overseas arm of state-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corp, will invest close to $150 million in the seven oil and gas blocks it recently acquired in Cuba.
India's plans to make a counter-offer for PetroKazakhstan might be riddled with impediments, as the Central Asian oil firm would have to shell out $125 million in penalty if it rejects the $4.18-billion offer by China's CNPC.
Expecting oil prices to remain under pressure, Fitch Ratings said deregulation of diesel prices in October will help in lowering the under-recoveries (which is nothing but international petroleum prices minus the subsidised retail rates).
Oil and Natural Gas Corp, said on Monday it had signed an agreement to supply crude oil to refiner Bharat Petroleum Corp Ltd for two years ending March 2004.\n\n\n\n
An expert panel approved policy for development of gas fields.
ONGC Videsh Ltd, the overseas arm of state-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC), has emerged as the Indian company having the most international exposure for the second consecutive year, says a survey.
Upstream oil firms bear one-third of the revenue that retailers lose on selling diesel, domestic LPG and Kerosene at government-controlled rates.
Draft prospectus for the upcoming mega public offers in public sector oil companies -- Gas Authority of India and Oil and Natural Gas Corp -- are expected to be filed with the Securities and Exchange Board of India
Scottish explorer Cairn Energy Plc rejected state-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corp's $200 million bid to acquire its oil and gas properties on east and west coasts of India.
After weeks of delay, Oil Minister S Jaipal Reddy has agreed to clear appointment of two independent directors on board of Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC), a requirement that was must for the state-owned firm's public offering next month.
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
The revised sale documents for public float of 10 per cent government equity in state-owned oil company Oil and Natural Gas Corp is expected to be filed with market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India, next week.
ONGC is likely to pay Rs 17,000 cr to subsidise products by the end of this fiscal.
"We are in discussions with NPCIL for incorporating a joint venture for setting up a nuclear power plant. NPCIL will have a minimum of 51 per cent stake in the joint venture while ONGC would have a maximum of 49 per cent," a company official said.
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.
Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC) is in talks with super majors like ExxonMobil to replace Norway's Statoil and Petrobras of Brazil who have decided to quit its KG basin gas block.
A day after a major blowout at a well of the Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC) near Vadodara, operations to arrest the gas leakage continued on Saturday even as the crisis management team reached the site to take stock of the situation.
ONGC Videsh Ltd and Oil India Ltd-Indian Oil Corp combine have won an oil block each in Libya. \n
India's largest oil producer Oil and Natural Gas Corp, gas utility GAIL and exploration firm Oil India Ltd will pay Rs 3,246 crore (Rs 32.46 billion) to oil marketing firms to partly cover the losses they made in April-June.
ONGC Videsh Ltd and China National Petroleum Corp have for the first time ever made a joint bid for acquiring an oilfield abroad.
Oil and Natural Gas Corp is spending 93 per cent of its total capital expenditure of Rs 10,850 crore (Rs 108.50 billion) in the current fiscal on its core activities of oil and gas exploration and production, according to its chairman and managing di
Asian Development Bank and ExxonMobil-promoted RasGas of Qatar have taken 10 per cent equity each in Petronet LNG Ltd, the public sector joint venture firm which will begin importing liquefied natural gas from January next year.
State-run Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC) may seek management control of the giant Rajasthan oilfields in lieu of allowing UK's Cairn Energy to sell majority stake in its Indian arm that now operates the field, to a non-oil firm, Vedanta Resources for $8.48 billion.
As much as 8 billion rubles (about Rs 1,000 crore) of dividend income belonging to Indian oil firms is stuck in Russia after the Putin administration clamped down on dollar repatriation, officials said on Friday. Indian state oil firms have invested $5.46 billion in buying stakes in four different assets in Russia. These include a 49.9 per cent stake in Vankorneft oil and gas field and another 29.9 per cent in TAAS-Yuryakh Neftegazodobycha fields.
With the Petroleum Ministry opposing disinvestment of IOC in the market, government is exploring the option of selling its shares to other oil PSUs like ONGC and OIL.
Global rating agency Standard & Poor's said the government's decision to increase domestic gas prices is likely to benefit two major gas producers Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC) and Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL).
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