{"id":449615,"date":"2021-11-12T10:04:43","date_gmt":"2021-11-12T04:34:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=449615"},"modified":"2021-11-12T10:32:28","modified_gmt":"2021-11-12T05:02:28","slug":"government-of-india-asks-ongc-to-consider-selling-60-stake-in-key-oil-gas-fields-source","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/government-of-india-asks-ongc-to-consider-selling-60-stake-in-key-oil-gas-fields-source\/","title":{"rendered":"Government of India asks ONGC to consider selling 60% stake in key oil, gas fields: Source"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India&#8217;s petroleum ministry has asked state-run explorer Oil NSE 2.49 % and Natural Gas Corp to consider selling a 60% stake in its two major oil and gas fields to private companies to boost output, a government source said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>India, the world&#8217;s third biggest oil consumer and importer, wants to quickly monetise its oil and gas reserves and has been asking ONGC NSE 0.65 % for years to raise production.<\/p>\n<p>India&#8217;s dependence on foreign oil has gradually risen to more than 80% as its local oil and gas output has been stagnating for years amid rising local refining capacity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India&#8217;s petroleum ministry has asked state-run explorer Oil NSE 2.49 % and Natural Gas Corp to consider selling a 60% stake in its two major oil and gas fields to private companies to boost output, a government source said on Thursday. India, the world&#8217;s third biggest oil consumer and importer, wants to quickly monetise its oil and gas reserves and has been asking ONGC NSE 0.65 % for years to raise production. India&#8217;s dependence on foreign oil has gradually risen to more than 80% as its local oil and gas output has been stagnating for years amid rising local refining [&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":[130,191,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-449615","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\/449615","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=449615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}