BW Communities

Articles for Oil and Gas

Govt To Spend Rs 130,000 Crore To Raise Energy Output In Northeast

Releasing the Hydrocarbon Vision 2030 for Northeast India, Petroleum Minister Dharmendra Pradhan says the Northeast region has enormous potential in the oil and gas sector

Read More
IEA Sees Global Oil Glut Worsening, OPEC Deal Unlikely

The Paris-based IEA trimmed its forecast for 2016 oil demand growth, which now stands at 1.17 million barrels per day (bpd) following a five-year high of 1.6 million in 2015

Read More
As Big Oil Shrinks, Boards Plot Different Paths Out Of Crisis

In the five years before the downturn began in mid-2014, when crude prices held above $100 a barrel, big energy firms had raced to expand production capacity, including buying stakes in vast, costly fields

Read More
Modi Inaugurates Mega Paradip Refinery, Blames Congress For Project Delays

PM says he is 'trying to bring a work culture where projects are conceived in time and completed on time'

Read More
India Seeks $2.2 Billion To Build Second Phase Of Strategic Oil Reserves

Strategic storage reserves are underground rock caverns used to store crude oil that can be used in case of a supply cut-off to a country

Read More
BP Reports Worst Annual Loss In 20 Years, Cuts Jobs

The company, which is still grappling with the huge costs from the deadly 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, said it would cut 7,000 jobs by 2017, nearly 9 per cent of its workforce

Read More
Oil Drops 6 Per Cent On China Data, OPEC Output Indecision

China's manufacturing sector contracted at the fastest pace since 2012 in January, adding to worries about demand from the world's second-biggest economy at a time when the market is already weighed down by a large supply overhang

Read More
IOC Aims To Start Crude Unit At Paradip By Wednesday

IOC, the country's biggest refiner, had shut the crude unit after a fire broke out at a vacuum distillation unit on Saturday evening

Read More
Govt To Earn Rs 3,200 Crore In Additional Excise Duty On Fuel

The three hikes in excise duty in January take to five the number of times tax rates on petrol and diesel have been raised this fiscal year

Read More
Russia Studying Proposal For Global Oil Production Cuts

Saudi Arabia has repeatedly called on non-members to contribute to output cuts if they want OPEC to help producers deal with the oil glut with the world running out of space to stockpile unwanted crude

Read More

Subscribe to our newsletter to get updates on our latest news