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GIC wants to divert terror insurance money for oil and nuclear risks

India has Rs 15,000 cr in terror risk insurance: Money could be better used

Oil sputters to three-month lows as demand concerns mount in US, China

Brent crude futures fell $1.68, or 2%, to $79.93 a barrel by 11:00 am EST (1600 GMT). US crude lost $1.78, or 2.3%, to $75.59. Both benchmarks hit their lowest since late July

Oil at $110 could prompt RBI to hike interest rate again: Morgan Stanley

As the world's third-biggest consumer of oil, India is one of the most exposed economies in Asia to rising crude prices

Indices fall for the second straight trading session on weak global cues

Besides, disappointing quarterly earnings numbers and revenue forecast from IT services company Wipro also weighed on investor sentiments, traders said

MEIL secures Rs 5,400 crore crude oil refinery project in Mongolia

Home-grown Megha Engineering and Infrastructures Ltd (MEIL) has secured a USD 648-million (about Rs 5,400 crore) work order in Mongolia. The order has been awarded by Mongol Refinery State Owned LLC, MEIL said in a statement on Friday. "MEIL has clinched a significant deal in Mongolia. The company received a Letter of Agreement (LOA) for constructing a state-of-the-art crude oil refinery plant valued at USD 648 million," it said. In this regard, MEIL hydrocarbons President P Rajesh Reddy and Altantsetseg Dashdavaa, Executive Director, representing the Mongol Refinery State Owned LLC, inked the new project contract at Ulaanbaatar in Mongolia on Friday. MEIL Managing Director P V Krishna Reddy along with other senior officials from both countries attended the event. Krishna Reddy said, "MEIL holds a prominent position in the global hydrocarbon sector, with a presence across upstream, midstream, and downstream operations. The new venture marks the company's third foray into the ...

Oil prices increase as Russia fuel export ban stokes supply concerns

Brent futures were up 78 cents, or 0.84%, at $94.08 a barrel by 1443 GMT, while U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude (WTI) futures rose by $1.02, or 1.14%, to $90.65 a barrel

Willing to wait to regain oil from Russian project, says ONGC Videsh

Putin last year removed an Exxon Mobil subsidiary as operator of the Sakhalin-1 oil and gas project in Russia's Far East and transferred it to a new operator

Oil India Ltd to invest Rs 25,000 crore in renewable energy by 2040

The company will invest in green hydrogen, solar, geothermal energy, 2G ethanol plant, compressed biogas plants, and carbon capture utilisation and storage (CCUS)

Oil prices ease from 10-month highs but hold above $90 a barrel

Saudi Arabia and Russia last week announced that they will extend voluntary supply cuts of a combined 1.3 million barrels per day (bpd) until the end of the year

Oil steadies as China moves to support economy, tropical storm in focus

China halved stamp duty on stock trading in its latest attempt to boost struggling markets. The market is also keeping an eye on Tropical Storm Idalia and any risk it poses to oil and gas output

Oil down 1% as weak US gasoline demand offsets big draw in crude stocks

Prices bounced off session lows as investors noted a much larger-than-expected draw in U.S. crude stocks

Tankers carrying oil collides in Egypt, disrupts traffic: Officials

Two tankers carrying oil products and liquefied natural gas collided in the Suez Canal, disrupting traffic through the global waterway, Egyptian authorities said Wednesday. The Suez Canal authority said in a statement that the BW Lesmes, a Singapore-flagged tanker that carries liquefied natural gas, suffered a mechanical malfunction on Tuesday night and ran aground while transiting through the canal. The Burri, a Cayman Island-flagged oil products tanker, collided with the broken vessel. The collision disrupted traffic, the statement said. The two tanker were part of a convoy transiting through from the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea. We've immediately handled the breakdowns ... and traffic will go back to normal in both directions within the coming hours, said Adm. Ossama Rabei, the head of the canal authority, in the statement. About 10 per cent of world trade flows through the canal, a major source of foreign currency for the Egyptian government. In March 2021, the Panama-fl

Oil rises on strong travel demand, China's move to soothe economic woes

Brent crude futures rose $1.24, or 1.5% to $84.70 a barrel by 11:18 a.m. ET (1518 GMT). U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude (WTI) was up $1.48, or 1.8% at $80.86 a barrel

Oil prices stabalies as China economic fears counter tight US supply

Brent crude futures edged up 6 cents to $84.95 a barrel by 11:35 a.m. EDT (1535 GMT), while U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude (WTI) fell 2 cents higher to $80.97 a barrel

Over 1 mn barrels of oil removed from tanker moored off Yemen, says UN

The transfer of more than a million barrels of oil from an aging tanker moored off the coast of war-torn Yemen has been completed, avoiding an environmental disaster, the United Nations said Friday. In a statement, Farhan Haq, the deputy spokesman for U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, said the operation had prevented monumental environmental and humanitarian catastrophe. An international team began siphoning the oil from the dilapidated vessel known as SOF Safer on July 25. All of the oil is now aboard a replacement tanker called the MOST Yemen. Before the transfer, the Safer carried four times as much oil than was spilled in the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster off Alaska, one of the world's worst ecological catastrophes, according to the U.N. International organizations and rights groups warned for years of the potential for a spill or an explosion involved the tanker, which has not been maintained and has seawater in its engine compartment and damaged pipes. It is moored 6 ...

Arabia extends cut of 1 mn barrel of oil a day through Sept, to boost price

Saudi Arabia said Thursday it will extend its unilateral production cut of 1 million barrels of oil a day through the end of September in its effort to boost flagging energy prices. The Saudi cut of 1 million barrels per day, which began in July, comes as the other OPEC+ producers have agreed to extend earlier production cuts through next year. The kingdom announced the extension in a statement on the state-run Saudi Press Agency. The move was widely expected by analysts. Benchmark Brent crude traded Thursday over $80 a barrel.

Oil regulator rejects Adani Total's application for Noida city gas licence

Oil regulator PNGRB has rejected Adani Total Gas Ltd's application for a licence to retail CNG to automobiles and piped gas to household kitchens in Noida, on the outskirts of the national capital, on grounds that it does not meet criteria. The Petroleum and Natural Gas Regulatory Board (PNGRB) in an order dated July 14 said Adani Total Gas Ltd does not fulfill the requirements of law and so its application is rejected. Adani has been eyeing a city gas distribution (CGD) licence for cities adjoining the national capital for nearly two decades now. A firm can retail CNG or piped natural gas in a city only if it is authorised by the regulator or had permission from the central government prior to the regulator coming into existence. While Indraprastha Gas Ltd - the joint venture of state-owned firms - had been authorised for the National Capital Territory of Delhi, Adani has challenged IGL's claim for adjoining cities. PNGRB, which came into being in 2006, accepted city gas ...

Oil, petrol sales of state retailers decline in July amid heavy rains

Demand from the agriculture sector also gets affected in this period due to fewer irrigation-related requirements

India's fuel demand slips by 3.7% in June as monsoon restricts mobility

Consumption of fuel, a proxy for oil demand, totaled 19.31 million tonnes in June, down from 20.06 million tonnes in May, data from the Petroleum Planning and Analysis Cell (PPAC) of the oil ministry

Reliance Industries, bp start production from MJ field in KG block

Reliance Industries Ltd, and its partner bp Plc on Friday announced the start of regular production from MJ oil and gas field in the KG-D6 block, helping scale up India's output of clean fuel to over 100 million cubic meters a day. MJ is the third and the last set of discoveries in the KG-DWN-98/3 or KG-D6 block, off the east coast that the consortium was working on. All three sets of discoveries, with MJ being the deepest, were made more than a decade back and have been progressively put into production. Together, the three sets of discoveries at their peak production will make up for 15 per cent of India's demand, the companies said in a statement on Friday. "The start of gas and condensate production from the MJ field follows the start-up of the R-Cluster field in December 2020 and Satellite Cluster in April 2021," it said. All three developments utilise the existing hub infrastructure for the block. "Together, the three fields are expected to produce around 30 million standard