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ONGC tender to idle nearly 70% of the domestic drilling industry

Contractors have trouble deploying rigs overseas

ONGC board approves buyback of 252.9 million shares for Rs 40.22 billion

In a regulatory filing, ONGC board approved buyback of 1.97 per cent of equity shares for Rs 159 apiece

ONGC board to consider OVL listing but IPO ruled out in near future

OVL has assets in countries like Venezuela, Iran, and Sudan, which are exposed to some or other western sanction

ONGC to consider listing of ONGC Videsh on domestic exchanges: Report

Move part of a government push to sell state assets to raise funds

ONGC, OIL spend Rs 130 bn on discoveries govt took for auctioning: Pradhan

As informed by ONGC, an amount of Rs 128.26 billion has been spent by ONGC on the discoveries/fields identified in the first and second round of Discovered Small Field Policy, he said

ONGC's finance director gets Best CFO crown

ONGC's finance director gets Best CFO crown

ONGC board to consider share buyback at a meeting on December 20

This follows government pushing cash-rich PSUs to use their funds to buy back shares or pay a higher dividend

ONGC rebounds 6% from day's low as board mulls share buyback

The stock moved 5% higher to Rs 150, bouncing back 6% from the intra-day low of Rs 141, after the company said that its board will meet on December 20 to consider a share buyback proposal.

Govt sets up 6-member panel to frame plan to sell 149 ONGC, OIL oil fields

This is the second attempt of by the Oil Ministry to take away some of the fields of state-owned ONGC for giving to private and foreign companies

ONGC to pay Rs 2.42 bn as wharfage compensation to Mumbai Port Trust

The Tariff Authority for Major Ports passed an order for wharfage compensation payable by ONGC on October 3, 2018

ONGC eyes technology infusion to boost output from old and matured fields

Field operators would be selected through a competitive bidding process where those offering higher growth in output would be chosen

Amid row, ex-ONGC head says bought GSPC field stake at half of asking price

Opposition has attacked the government for exerting 'pressure' on ONGC to, among other things, bail out debt-laden GSPC

ONGC takes a hit on equity investment in HPCL, Indian Oil over fuel subsidy

There has been a sharp fall in the share price of OMCs in the last 2 days after the govt announced that they would have to absorb subsidy on diesel and petrol

ONGC to wait for right price before offloading shares in IOC, GAIL

Initially, ONGC considered selling its stake in IOC and GAIL to fund the acquisition, but it has never found the right price to offload the shares

ONGC betting big on second, third rounds of OALP auctions, DSF-II

New Delhi, 1 October State-run Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) is betting high on the second and third round of auctions under the Open Acreage Licensing Policy (OALP) for petroleum blocks. It has given a formal Expression of Interest (EoI) for seven areas in the second round and is in the process of doing so for discoveries in the Bay of Bengal region for the third round.Also, it would be participating in the second round of Discovered Small Fields auction (DSF-II) that has already been launched. "Of the 13 areas for which companies have submitted EOIs, ONGC has shown interest in seven. We are keen on DSF-II also as the small field policies are more lucrative. The company might also look for some areas in OALP-III," said a senior ONGC official. OALP is designed to allow companies carve out their own exploration areas, improving on gaps found in the earlier model. In the EoI stage, companies may carve out their area based on the National Data Repository. The the second stage ...

ONGC needs capex funds, seeks exemption from govt's share buyback request

ONGC needs the funds for its own capital expenditures

IIT Madras, ONGC sign agreement to boost operational lifecycle of platforms

Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (IITM) has announced collaboration with Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited (ONGC) to enhance the operational life cycle of the latter's existing platforms and reduce running and operating cost by optimum use of offshore survey requirements.IITM is going to develop a Database Management System for all the more than 280 platforms of ONGC and develop software for Structural Integrity Management System (SIMS) as well.Industrial Consultancy and Sponsored Research, IIT Madras, and Institute of Engineering and Ocean Technology (IEOT), ONGC, signed the agreement for the collaborative R&D project titled 'Development of Structural Integrity Management System (SIMS) For Offshore Platforms of ONGC'.The existing offshore platforms in Mumbai High have been operational for more than three decades. Though the design life has exceeded in some cases, oil and gas production still continues as their reservoirs are producing. Hence considerable effort has ...

ONGC's $1.6 bn stake sale hits hurdle as govt may reimpose fuel subsidies

Indian government held road shows in the US for stake sale

ONGC repays a third of Rs 248.81 billion loan taken to buy HPCL

ONGC has used internal resources to make the payment and thus will not sell its stake in IOC and GAIL in the near future

Higher realisations come as a boost to ONGC; volume growth may pick up

Volume growth, however, was tepid at three per cent for natural gas, while oil output was down four per cent