{"id":280945,"date":"2019-07-09T04:54:34","date_gmt":"2019-07-09T04:54:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=280945"},"modified":"2019-07-09T04:54:44","modified_gmt":"2019-07-09T04:54:44","slug":"no-proposal-to-merge-state-owned-firms-oil-minister-dharmendra-pradhan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/no-proposal-to-merge-state-owned-firms-oil-minister-dharmendra-pradhan\/","title":{"rendered":"No proposal to merge state-owned firms: Oil Minister Dharmendra Pradhan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Oil Minister Dharmendra Pradhan Monday said there is no proposal, at present, for the merger of state-owned oil and gas entities under consideration of his ministry. <\/p>\n<p>While state-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGCNSE 1.44 %) had last year acquired government stake in Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd (HPCLNSE 1.36 %), Indian Oil Corp (IOC) and Bharat Petroleum Corp Ltd (BPCLNSE 0.76 %) were both keen on acquiring gas utility GAILNSE -0.07 % India Ltd. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Oil Minister Dharmendra Pradhan Monday said there is no proposal, at present, for the merger of state-owned oil and gas entities under consideration of his ministry. While state-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGCNSE 1.44 %) had last year acquired government stake in Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd (HPCLNSE 1.36 %), Indian Oil Corp (IOC) and Bharat Petroleum Corp Ltd (BPCLNSE 0.76 %) were both keen on acquiring gas utility GAILNSE -0.07 % India Ltd.<\/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":[130,191,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-280945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280945","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=280945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280945\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}