{"id":287517,"date":"2019-08-17T06:31:41","date_gmt":"2019-08-17T06:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=287517"},"modified":"2019-08-17T06:31:41","modified_gmt":"2019-08-17T06:31:41","slug":"numaligarh-oil-refinery-to-foray-into-crude-exploration-in-assam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/numaligarh-oil-refinery-to-foray-into-crude-exploration-in-assam\/","title":{"rendered":"Numaligarh oil Refinery to foray into crude exploration in Assam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>North East India\u2019s largest refiner Numaligarh Refinery Ltd on Thursday said it has firmed up plans to diversify into exploration of crude oil within the next few months. The Mini Ratna PSU\u2019s board has already given its nod for an initial investment of Rs 150 crore for the diversification and the company has sought approvals for commencing exploration in two blocks in Assam along with other partners.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the first time NRL is getting into exploration. We have already received our board\u2019s approval for this and in view of initial risk involvement, they have earmarked Rs 150 crore for the initial exploration purposes,\u201d NRL Managing Director S K Barua told PTI in an interview here.<\/p>\n<p>The company will pump in more money if oil is found in the two blocks, he said. The company has identified Namrup block in Dibrugarh and Mesaki in Tinsukia districts for foraying into exploration of crude.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North East India\u2019s largest refiner Numaligarh Refinery Ltd on Thursday said it has firmed up plans to diversify into exploration of crude oil within the next few months. The Mini Ratna PSU\u2019s board has already given its nod for an initial investment of Rs 150 crore for the diversification and the company has sought approvals for commencing exploration in two blocks in Assam along with other partners. \u201cThis is the first time NRL is getting into exploration. We have already received our board\u2019s approval for this and in view of initial risk involvement, they have earmarked Rs 150 crore for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,195,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-287517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287517","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}