Category: Oil & Gas

Oil Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Monday said he believes non-telecom PSUs are not covered by the Supreme Court order that asked telecom licence holders to pay statutory dues after including non-telecom revenues. Following the October 24 Supreme Court ruling that non-telecom revenues of telecom firms such as Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea should be included […]

A woman sustained serious burn injuries in a massive fire that reportedly broke out due to leakage in an LPG pipe at Balijhari village under the Kanpur police station in Cuttack district on Thursday. The victim was identified as Seema (21), daughter of Surendra Moharana. According to reports, the clothes of the woman caught fire […]

Wondering if the increase in prices of cooking gas was “revenge” for the saffron party’s crushing defeat in the Delhi polls, the Congress on Thursday demanded that the Government should rollback the LPG cylinder price hike. For its part, the Mahila Congress held a protest against the steep LPG price hike and submitted a memorandum […]

Former Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Thursday took a swipe at the BJP over the LPG cylinders’ price hike by attaching an old picture of Union Minister Smriti Irani. “I agree with these members of the BJP as they protest the astronomical Rs 150 price hike in LPG cylinders,” Rahul Gandhi tweeted with the hashtag […]

The Uttarakhand Congress organised a state-wide protest on recent steep hike in the price of cooking gas on Thursday. The Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) chief Pritam Singh participated in protest in Haridwar while the Congress leaders participated in protests held in all district headquarters. In provisional state capital Dehradun, the Congress workers led by Mahanagar […]

Claiming that the steep hike in LPG cylinder price would be a burden to housewives, state president of Congress’s Women’s Cell, Phoolodevi Netam flayed the decision of the Union government. In a statement, the Congress leader, demanding of the Union government to roll back its decision, charged that the Narendra Modi government at the Center, […]

Cooking gas LPG price on Wednesday was hiked by a steep Rs 144.5 per cylinder due to spurt in benchmark global rates of the fuel. But to insulate domestic users, the government almost doubled the subsidy it provides on the fuel to keep per cylinder outgo almost unchanged. LPG price was increased to Rs 858.50 […]

Big relief for consumers as fuel prices became cheaper once again on Saturday. The price of petrol was cut by 24 paise and that of diesel by 27 paise on Saturday across all major cities in India. The petrol now costs at Rs 72.45 a litre in Delhi, Rs 78.11 a litre in Mumbai, Rs […]

With the export of its first parcel of IMO 2020 grade Very Low Sulphur Fuel Oil (VLSFO) from Kochi to Singapore, Bharat Petroleum has become the first oil marketing company to export this cleaner shipping fuel from the country. The tanker MT Alnic MC carrying the first parcel of 15 TMT VLSFO to Singapore was […]

In an attempt to awaken the masses about energy conservation, Gas Authority of India Limited (GAIL) organised ‘Walkathon’ on Sunday in the State Capital. Executive Director (Eastern Region), GAIL (India) Limited, KB Singh flagged off Saksham Fit India Walkathon from Sri Jagannath HEC Ground. More than 1200 participants walked their way round Dhurwa Golchakkar for […]

A city resident was allegedly duped of Rs 10.30 lakh over a false assurance of a job at the Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IOCL). As per a complaint lodged by victim Sagar Kumar Padhi, a resident of Jagamohan Nagar here, with the Khandagiri police, one Suresh Barik of Nayagarh district took the money from him […]

Petrol and diesel prices may go up by 50 paise to Re 1 per litre beginning April when India leapfrogs to using Euro-VI emission-compliant ultra-clean auto fuels. Currently, BS-IV grade fuel, equivalent to Euro-IV emission-compliant fuel, is being supplied in the country and the government decided to leapfrog to BS-VI grade fuel from April 2020 […]