{"id":659461,"date":"2026-03-20T11:33:55","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T06:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=659461"},"modified":"2026-03-20T11:33:55","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T06:03:55","slug":"govt-declares-energy-statistics-as-national-security-matter-oil-and-gas-entities-mandated-to-disclose-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/govt-declares-energy-statistics-as-national-security-matter-oil-and-gas-entities-mandated-to-disclose-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt declares energy statistics as national security matter; oil and gas entities mandated to disclose data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Union government on Thursday designated energy statistics as a critical national security priority, requiring all entities within the oil and gas supply chain to provide comprehensive operational data. The governmental directive seeks to establish a unified, real-time data architecture to facilitate rapid responses to supply outages, prioritise vital industries like electricity, agriculture, and domestic fuel, and enable more strategic purchasing decisions.<\/p>\n<p>The Petroleum and Natural Gas (Furnishing of Information) Order, 2026, issued by the Oil Ministry, mandates that refiners, LNG importers, pipeline managers, city gas providers, and petrochemical entities \u2014 from both state-owned and private sectors \u2014 consistently (and in certain instances, daily) submit detailed metrics to the Petroleum Planning and Analysis Cell (PPAC).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Union government on Thursday designated energy statistics as a critical national security priority, requiring all entities within the oil and gas supply chain to provide comprehensive operational data. The governmental directive seeks to establish a unified, real-time data architecture to facilitate rapid responses to supply outages, prioritise vital industries like electricity, agriculture, and domestic fuel, and enable more strategic purchasing decisions. The Petroleum and Natural Gas (Furnishing of Information) Order, 2026, issued by the Oil Ministry, mandates that refiners, LNG importers, pipeline managers, city gas providers, and petrochemical entities \u2014 from both state-owned and private sectors \u2014 consistently (and [&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":[139,130,187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-659461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659461","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=659461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}