Hydrocarbon Exploration

The researchers stressed that the occurrence of gas accumulations was more widespread than anticipated.

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami on Sunday said Cauvery delta has been declared a ''protected agricultural zone'' and asserted that hydrocarbon exploration projects will not be allowed in the basin.

A division bench of Justices M Sathyanarayanan and N Seshasayee issued notice and posted the matter for further hearing to January 7 when the PIL came up on Friday.

India, the world's third biggest oil importer, wants to unlock its vast hydrocarbon resources to cut dependence on foreign oil.

This will be the first auction under the new Hydrocarbon Exploration and Licensing Policy that allows companies to carve out blocks of their choice with a view to bringing unexplored area in the country under exploration.

The Directorate General of Hydrocarbons is a technical arm of the oil ministry which overseas upstream oil and gas exploration and production activities.

The block was awarded to Cairn India on 30 June 2010 as part of the NELP-VIII round for exploration of hydrocarbons and production.

Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) has received green nod for drilling 8 additional exploratory wells to ascertain the reservoir capacity and commercial viability of hydrocarbons off the coast of Tamil Nadu at a project cost of Rs 800 crore.

The Indian government on Sunday evinced interest in joint exploration of new oil and gas fields as well development of discovered assets in energy rich Qatar.

A team of Chinese experts on Sunday launched a study on prospects for minerals, gas and oil at Shreesthan in Dailekh, a western district of Nepal, which, officials claim, holds petroleum products in abundance.

Sharma also said before the launch of competitive bidding, the industry looks forward to consultative meetings with the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural gas on the terms and incentives to explore these fields.

Upstream oil regulator Directorate General of Hydrocarbons (DGH) has approved commerciality of oil and gas discoveries in the northern area of state-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corp's (ONGC) prolific KG-D5 block in Bay of Bengal.

ONGC Videsh entered into a deal with Russia's Rosneft on Saturday for cooperation in exploration and hydrocarbon production from Russia's offshore deposits.

ONGC Videsh Ltd (OVL), the overseas arm of state-owned explorer Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC), has signed a deal with Russia's largest oil and gas producer Rosneft to jointly explore hydrocarbons in the offshore Arctic.

L&T Hydrocarbon, a unit of Larsen and Tubro (L&T), has secured an order worth Rs 1,000 crore from oil and gas firms including a Rs 700-crore order from BG Exploration and Production India.

The researchers stressed that the occurrence of gas accumulations was more widespread than anticipated.

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami on Sunday said Cauvery delta has been declared a ''protected agricultural zone'' and asserted that hydrocarbon exploration projects will not be allowed in the basin.

A division bench of Justices M Sathyanarayanan and N Seshasayee issued notice and posted the matter for further hearing to January 7 when the PIL came up on Friday.

India, the world's third biggest oil importer, wants to unlock its vast hydrocarbon resources to cut dependence on foreign oil.

This will be the first auction under the new Hydrocarbon Exploration and Licensing Policy that allows companies to carve out blocks of their choice with a view to bringing unexplored area in the country under exploration.

The Directorate General of Hydrocarbons is a technical arm of the oil ministry which overseas upstream oil and gas exploration and production activities.

The block was awarded to Cairn India on 30 June 2010 as part of the NELP-VIII round for exploration of hydrocarbons and production.

Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) has received green nod for drilling 8 additional exploratory wells to ascertain the reservoir capacity and commercial viability of hydrocarbons off the coast of Tamil Nadu at a project cost of Rs 800 crore.

The Indian government on Sunday evinced interest in joint exploration of new oil and gas fields as well development of discovered assets in energy rich Qatar.

A team of Chinese experts on Sunday launched a study on prospects for minerals, gas and oil at Shreesthan in Dailekh, a western district of Nepal, which, officials claim, holds petroleum products in abundance.

Sharma also said before the launch of competitive bidding, the industry looks forward to consultative meetings with the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural gas on the terms and incentives to explore these fields.

Upstream oil regulator Directorate General of Hydrocarbons (DGH) has approved commerciality of oil and gas discoveries in the northern area of state-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corp's (ONGC) prolific KG-D5 block in Bay of Bengal.

ONGC Videsh entered into a deal with Russia's Rosneft on Saturday for cooperation in exploration and hydrocarbon production from Russia's offshore deposits.

ONGC Videsh Ltd (OVL), the overseas arm of state-owned explorer Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC), has signed a deal with Russia's largest oil and gas producer Rosneft to jointly explore hydrocarbons in the offshore Arctic.

L&T Hydrocarbon, a unit of Larsen and Tubro (L&T), has secured an order worth Rs 1,000 crore from oil and gas firms including a Rs 700-crore order from BG Exploration and Production India.