State-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC) is mulling on a vision document for 2040 that will lay the strategic roadmap for the nation's largest oil and gas producer for the next two decades. ONGC Chairman and Managing Director Shashi Shanker, in his speech after hoisting the national flag at the company headquarters at Dehradun, said the vision document 'Strategic Roadmap 2040' would craft the strategy for the firm as an integrated energy major with a long-term perspective. "The document would reframe the vision and recast the objectives of Perspective Plan 2030," he said. The Perspective Plan 2030 was ONGC's earlier vision document that outlined strategic goals for the growth of the organisation and for the energy security of the nation, a company statement said. "Our portfolio has seen a metamorphic change in the last decade. Today our business portfolio includes E&P, refining, petrochemicals, LNG, pipelines, retail, SEZ Infrastructure, power etc. While these developments open
"The funds for the buyback will be met out of internally generated cash resources of the company," it said
State-owned ONGC is the largest client for most of the domestic oil drilling industry
The move by the government to bring in private parties for the nomination blocks of state-run companies had raised protests among employees
The investment will take place Sivasagar and Charaideo districts of Upper Assam, besides planning to hire over 300 persons in the state
The DIPAMhad been pushing for the listing of the ONGC arm to meet the divestment target of Rs 80,000 crore for the current financial year
The Congress has also been alleging that the government favoured Anil Ambani's firm over HAL in the Rafale jets deal
In a BSE filing, ONGC said that it will repurchase 1.97% stake or 25,29,55,974 equity shares at a price of Rs 159 apiece
Contractors have trouble deploying rigs overseas
In a regulatory filing, ONGC board approved buyback of 1.97 per cent of equity shares for Rs 159 apiece
OVL has assets in countries like Venezuela, Iran, and Sudan, which are exposed to some or other western sanction
Move part of a government push to sell state assets to raise funds
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
This follows government pushing cash-rich PSUs to use their funds to buy back shares or pay a higher dividend
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.
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
The Tariff Authority for Major Ports passed an order for wharfage compensation payable by ONGC on October 3, 2018
Field operators would be selected through a competitive bidding process where those offering higher growth in output would be chosen
Opposition has attacked the government for exerting 'pressure' on ONGC to, among other things, bail out debt-laden GSPC