{"id":280052,"date":"2019-07-03T11:46:34","date_gmt":"2019-07-03T11:46:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=280052"},"modified":"2019-07-03T11:46:34","modified_gmt":"2019-07-03T11:46:34","slug":"local-firms-bag-maximum-licences-in-indias-oil-exploration-auction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/local-firms-bag-maximum-licences-in-indias-oil-exploration-auction\/","title":{"rendered":"Local firms bag maximum licences in India&#8217;s oil exploration auction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Indian firms bagged maximum number of licences for oil and gas exploration blocks offered under new eased rules of exploration in the country, according to a list posted on the website of the Directorate General of Hydrocarbons (DGH). <\/p>\n<p>Under the new rules, companies can carve out areas they want to drill for their projects. <\/p>\n<p>State-owned Oil India Ltd and the country&#8217;s top explorer Oil and Natural Gas Corp Ltd won 12 and 8 blocks respectively, according to the list. <\/p>\n<p>India&#8217;s Reliance Industries Ltd and its partner BP Plc were also awarded a block, DGH said late Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Vedanta Ltd, controlled by mining tycoon Anil Agarwal, has bagged 10 oil and gas blocks, DGH added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian firms bagged maximum number of licences for oil and gas exploration blocks offered under new eased rules of exploration in the country, according to a list posted on the website of the Directorate General of Hydrocarbons (DGH). Under the new rules, companies can carve out areas they want to drill for their projects. State-owned Oil India Ltd and the country&#8217;s top explorer Oil and Natural Gas Corp Ltd won 12 and 8 blocks respectively, according to the list. India&#8217;s Reliance Industries Ltd and its partner BP Plc were also awarded a block, DGH said late Tuesday. Vedanta Ltd, controlled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-280052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oil-gas"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280052","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280052\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}