{"id":278291,"date":"2019-06-12T07:19:58","date_gmt":"2019-06-12T07:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=278291"},"modified":"2019-06-12T07:29:07","modified_gmt":"2019-06-12T07:29:07","slug":"pressure-on-ongc-to-steer-clear-of-farzad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/pressure-on-ongc-to-steer-clear-of-farzad\/","title":{"rendered":"Pressure on ONGC to steer clear of Farzad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ONGC Videsh, the overseas arm of state-owned explorer ONGC, is unlikely to go ahead with its investments in Iran\u2019s Farzad-B gas block because of the US sanctions on the Islamic nation.<\/p>\n<p>Tehran has indicated that it could come out with a licensing round for the development of the field by an Iranian contractor if the Indian firm does not enter into an agreement soon.<\/p>\n<p>Sources in the state-owned firm said they would take a call only after getting a formal communication from Iran.<\/p>\n<p>However, sources indicated that given the US sanction on Iran, it was unlikely that OVL would go ahead with the development of the gasfield.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ONGC Videsh, the overseas arm of state-owned explorer ONGC, is unlikely to go ahead with its investments in Iran\u2019s Farzad-B gas block because of the US sanctions on the Islamic nation. Tehran has indicated that it could come out with a licensing round for the development of the field by an Iranian contractor if the Indian firm does not enter into an agreement soon. Sources in the state-owned firm said they would take a call only after getting a formal communication from Iran. However, sources indicated that given the US sanction on Iran, it was unlikely that OVL would go [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,215,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-278291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-telegraph","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}