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Production from blocks awarded in first round auctions expected in a week

Third round of discovered small field auctions begins

Fossil fuels will be a bad word in decades to come: Oil Minister Pradhan

He asked oil and gas firms to take a lead in clean fuel initiatives, urging them to focus more on using farm waste to energy projects

Shiv Sena says ONGC's negligence led to the barge tragedy during cyclone

The Shiv Sena on Saturday held Oil and Natural Gas Corporation responsible for the death of several personnel of the barge that sank off the Mumbai coast when cyclone Tauktae brushed past the city

Congress seeks resignation of petroleum minister over barge tragedy

Maharashtra Congress demanded the resignation of Petroleum Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on moral grounds over the death of 37 personnel on board a barge that sank in the Arabian Sea

Oil for oxygen: India welcomes Saudi covid aid, boosts oil imports

Indian oil minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Friday thanked Saudi Arabia and other Middle Eastern oil producers for supplying liquid medical oxygen (LMO) to help the country in its battle with the Covid

India in process of securing commercial supplies of LMO from Gulf countries

Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Friday said he had close consultations during the last week with his counterparts from some Gulf countries on ways to increase import of oxygen

Pradhan holds meeting to augment supply of medical oxygen from steel plants

Union Steel Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Friday held a meeting with senior officials of the ministry to augment availability of medical oxygen in the country.

Working on hydrogen-natural gas synergy, broader role for former: Pradhan

Minister says role of hydrogen to go beyond transport, embrace chemicals, iron, steel, fertiliser and refining, among other areas

Oil Minister Dharmendra Pradhan meets US special envoy John Kerry

Oil Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Wednesday discussed efforts to revamp strategic energy partnership between India and the US with the visiting US Presidential Special Envoy for Climate John Kerry. Calling his meeting "productive", Pradhan tweeted that the discussions focused "on collaborating on technology and finance to further develop mutually beneficial low-carbon pathways in fast-growing India's energy market, including in gas, RE, biofuels & in hydrogen." RE stands for renewable energy. "Also, discussed the ongoing efforts to revamp the strategic energy partnership with Energy Secretary @SecGranholm with focus on cleaner and green energies, including through the deployment of future technologies for carbon capture, battery storage and hydrogen," he added. Late last month, Pradhan had a meeting with US Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm to discuss revamping strategic energy partnership between the two nations with a greater focus on cleaner energy sectors. The two leaders

No dearth of Covid-19 vaccine doses in Odisha says Dharmendra Pradhan

Days after the Odisha government raised concern over shortage of Covid vaccine doses in the state, Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan assured on Saturday that there was no dearth of jabs in the state

India to buy oil from cheapest supplier on favourable terms, says Pradhan

UAE, Kuwait and Nigeria -- some of the biggest suppliers of oil to India -- are all OPEC members

India calls Saudi Arabia's advice on tapping stored oil 'undiplomatic'

India, the world's third-biggest oil importer and consumer, has asked refiners to speed up diversification and cut reliance on Middle Eastern oil

India, UAE vow to strengthen energy cooperation: Dharmendra Pradhan

UAE is a key oil supplier to India and a partner in an Indian joint venture that plans to build a 1.2 million barrels per day (bpd) refinery and petrochemical complex on the country's west coast

No plan to split Gail, says Union Oil Minister Dharmendra Pradhan

The government is not considering any proposal to bifurcate state-owned gas utility GAIL (India) Ltd, Pradhan said

Petrol stable at Rs 91.17 in New Delhi since two weeks, diesel at Rs 81.47

In Mumbai, petrol price stood at Rs 97.57 per litre--the same since Feb 27

Pradhan, other Odisha MPs meet Prakash Javadekar over Simlipal forest fire

Days after a fire devastated the Similipal forest division in Odisha, Pradhan and other MPs from the state met Prakash Javadekar, demanding his intervention in the issue of forest fires in the state

LPG price double in the last 7 years: Oil minister Dharmendra Pradhan

Price of domestic cooking gas, LPG has doubled to Rs 819 per cylinder in the last seven years while the increase in taxes on petrol and diesel has swelled collections by over 459 per cent, Oil Minister Dharmendra Pradhan said on Monday. In written replies to a spate of questions on rising fuel prices in the Lok Sabha, Pradhan said the retail selling price of domestic gas was Rs 410.5 per 14.2-kg cylinder on March 1, 2014. This month, the same cylinder costs Rs 819. Small price hikes over the past couple of years have eliminated subsidy on cooking gas as well as PDS kerosene. Pradhan said the price of domestic subsidised LPG has been raised during the last few months. It cost Rs 594 per cylinder in December 2020 and now is priced at Rs 819. Similarly, kerosene sold to the poor through the public distribution system (PDS) has risen from Rs 14.96 per litre in March 2014 to Rs 35.35 this month, he said. Petrol and diesel prices too are at an all-time high across the country. The rate

India is saddened by Opec+ decision to continue cutting production: Pradhan

After the Opec decision, one million barrels per day of crude oil production from Saudi Arabia will remain in place at least through April.

Mega steel plant in Odisha to bring wave of economic development: Pradhan

Pradhan on Friday said the Rs 50,000 crore integrated steel plant in Odisha will bring jobs

Will look at alternate energy if OPEC+ doesn't fix crude shortage: Pradhan

Recalls India's support to oil producing nations when global demand collapsed last May, and OPEC's promise to sustain normal supply when things got better