Petroleum and Natural Gas

Petrol pumps will be closed on Sundays in eight states, starting May 14. These are Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Karnataka, Puducherry, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Maharashtra and Haryana. The move is an effort by owners’ association to comply with a call by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on his “Mann ki Baat” programme ...

Bio Diesel is an environment friendly fuel which has no sulphur, no aromatics and has 10% built in oxygen. It does not require infrastructure for storage and dispensing. The plant that produces Bio-Diesel is Jatropha and Soyabean. With the R&D, it has been found that with the blend in diesel ...

Scripting a new chapter in the country’s transport sector which moves towards clean fuel, India’s first liquefied natural gas-driven bus has been launched in Kerela. Union Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Dharmendra Pradhan and Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan jointly flagged off the first pilot run of the eco-friendly bus ...

It was launched by Union Minister of State (MoS) for Petroleum and Natural Gas at Taranga village under Soro block in Balasore district of Odisha to trace hydrocarbon resources like oil and natural gas in Mahanadi basin. Objectives To undertake a fresh appraisal in all sedimentary basins across India, especially ...

The oil and gas sector is among the six core industries in India and plays a major role in influencing decision making for all the other important sections of the economy. India’s economic growth is closely related to energy demand; therefore the need for oil and gas is projected to ...

Pahal (DBTL) Consumers Scheme This Scheme was launched by Union Government, Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas in 2013 to provide benefit to the consumers by linking Aadhar cards with their LPG connection so that they can get the subsidy amount direct in their banks. Objectives Benefits Transfer is to ...

The Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas of the Government of India and the Ministry of Environment, have together taken a step further into the direction of introducing greener mobility solutions in the country. The government has introduced CNG kits for two-wheelers in the National Capital of the country, which ...

The central government has enforced a new norm on LPG subsidy as the government has now debarred LPG users those who earn above Rs. 10 lakh annually from receiving subsidy. This will be applicable from users’ next refill. People who are earning above Rs. 10 lakhs per annum are not ...

The Cabinet has finally approved of a Rs. 8,000 crore Pradhan Mantri Ujwala Yojana to provide free of cost cooking gas or LPG connections to women members of economically weaker households. The corpus budget would be utilized for three years with an aim to provide to thoroughly and speedily provide ...

The Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas is planning to lend its hand to startups in terms of financial assistance in the oil sector to validate their presence in PM Mr. Narendra Modi’s ambitious Start-Up India project. Dharmendra Pradhan, Ministry of State (independent Charge) and Ministry of Petroleum & Natural ...