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Crude Prices Remain Stable Even As Israel - Iran Conflict Continues
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As President Trump Wants, India To Import More Oil, LNG From USA
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India’s LNG Imports To Double By 2030, Search For New Sources Of Supply
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India’s Crude Import Goes Up Only In Volume Not In Value
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Indian Refiners Shying Away From Increasing LPG Production
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Regulation
Capacity To Be Expanded: Dhabol LNG Terminal Revived As All Weather Port
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To Arrest Production Decline: ONGC Inaugurates India’s First Fully Automated ASP CEOR Plant
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Domestic Ethanol Production Has To Go Up To Meet Rising Blending Targets
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India Creates One More Record In Promoting LPG
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Alternative Energy / Fuel
Compressed Bio-Gas (CBG)
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New Projects
IOCL To Supply LNG To NTPC’s Upcoming 50 MW Power Plant
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BPCL Awards Solar And Li-Ion Battery System Contract To Volks Energie
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BPCL Inks Pact With MCC To Set Up Compressed Biogas Plant
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Market Watch
Rural LPG Distribution Sees Significant Jump
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Chennai Petroleum To Re-Enter Fuel Retail Market
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Companies
Osaka Gas Co
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HPCL To Invest Rs 20 billion In 24 CBG Plants Over 3 Years
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Suzlon Wins Third Successive 170.1 MW Order from AMPIN Energy
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Juniper Green Energy Commissions 59 Mwp Solar Project
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July 10, 2025: The state-owned upstream major, Oil India Ltd (OIL), has delivered a strong 3% growth in production over last 5 years. Its highest ever production happens to be in FY 25. Click column Special Database  for details.

July 8, 2025: Analysis Of Crude Oils Processed By Indian Refineries In May 2025. Click Special Database for details.

June 25, 2025 | It Is Time That Oil India Gets Its Due: The choice of subject for this column was sparked by a recent media report that Oil India had signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Cochin Port Authority. The state-owned upstream major planned to use the facilities at the port to create a new shore support base for the company’s offshore oil exploration in its block on the Kerala coast. Oil India’s crude production has stagnated around 3 million tonnes per annum for many years now. “Still, I have great regard for what I believe is an emerging oil giant. My perception springs from the fact that its senior level executives are professionally superior to their counterparts in many other companies. OIL’s top brass has always been more knowledgeable about upstream E&P activities, global developments and economics of the upstream sector… One cannot but wonder whether ONGC’s discovery of Bombay High in some way stunted the growth of Oil India Ltd. That sounds like a perverse view about the dynamics between the two upstream siblings but I have good reason to voice it”. Click Free Access column Petro Intelligence to read an exciting piece.
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Exclusive: India aims to import about 10% of its cooking gas from US from 2026
July 10, 2025: India plans to source about 10% of its cooking gas imports from the U.S. beginning in 2026 as part of a broader effort to boost energy purchases to narrow its trade gap with Washington, four industry refining sources familiar with the matter said. The world's third biggest oil importer and   more..


India seeks offshore tech tie-ups for deep-sea oil, hydrogen collaboration with Norway
July 10, 2025: India is seeking collaboration on offshore energy technologies with Norwegian firms as it prepares to explore more than 2,50,000 square kilometres under the Open Acreage Licensing Policy(OALP) Round-10, Union Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas Hardeep Singh Puri said. In a post on X, the   more..


PNGRB plans petroleum products exchange
July 10, 2025: The Petroleum and Natural Gas Regulatory Board (PNGRB) is planning to facilitate the creation of an exchange for trading petroleum products such as aviation turbine fuel(ATF), naphtha, fuel oil and bitumen, in a bid to promote fair and transparent pricing in the domestic market. "The concept   more..


Reforms in the making for city gas distributors? New tariff order expected next month
July 10, 2025: Domestic city gas distribution (CGD) companies are set to benefit from a series of regulatory reforms in terms of reducing costs and improving efficiency as new tariff order is expected to be issued next month, following the release of revised pipeline tariff regulations two days ago. According   more..


IGX Hits Record High in Q1FY25 with 24.5 Million MMBtu Trade; June Volumes Dip Amid Lower Power Demand
July 10, 2025: During Q1FY25, IGX traded record volume of 24.5 million MMBtu (619 MMSCM). Another milestone achieved was first trade in 6-month Long Duration Contract. In June’25 due to lower demand from the power sector, IGX traded gas volume of 4 million MMBtu (101 MMSCM), lower by 8% YoY.  Gas   more..


BPCL, HPCL near record highs, zoom up to 57% from March low
July 10, 2025: Shares of oil marketing companies (OMCs) Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd. (HPCL) (₹452.4) and Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd. (BPCL)(₹357.55) were trading higher by up to 2 per cent on the BSE in Tuesday’s intra-day trade in an otherwise subdued market on expectations of strong   more..


ACEN and UPC Renewables break ground on over 500 MW of new renewable energy projects in India
July 10, 2025: ACEN, in partnership with UPC Renewables, has commenced construction of two major renewable energy projects in India: a 420 MW solar farm in Rajasthan and a 120 MW wind farm in Karnataka. These new developments mark a significant step forward in ACEN’s and UPC’s strategic expansion into one of the   more..


Hindustan Power launches 435 MWp solar project in Uttar Pradesh
July 10, 2025: Hindustan Power has begun a 435 MWp solar power project in Lalitpur, Uttar Pradesh, during the Clean Energy Summit 2025. The project, which will supply clean electricity to the state for 25 years, is part of Uttar Pradesh’s goal of reaching 22,000 MW of renewable energy by 2026-27.     more..

Petropulse / Guest Column
Impact of Ukraine war on International LNG trade. Lessons for India
by Dr Bhamy Shenoy Bhamy ShenoyRussian-Ukraine war has brought about dramatic changes in international gas and oil sector because of the oil embargo by the west and gas more...

IOG Exclusive
Buy Assets In US And Swap Crude With Europe
By R. Sasankan The pecking order in the world of oil and gas has changed dramatically: the US has grabbed the top spot on the totem pole. One recent report summed up the development succinctly: "December 2023 witnessed an extraordinary surge in US LNG exports with shipments more...

Cheap Crude Does Not Benefit PSU Refineries
By R. Sasankan Parliamentarians in India have a heart-warming desire to shape public policy; the trouble is that in their eagerness to do something - anything - they can allow the nobility of their intention to smother the practicality of their proposed interventions. In their zeal more...

Double Trouble
By R. Sasankan If you ignore history, you are condemned to repeat it. The stark truth of this aphorism came back to me the other day when I read a Reuters report that said Indian Oil Corporation was aiming to double the capacity of its liquefied natural gas more...

Single Agency Needed To Acquire Overseas Energy Assets
By R. Sasankan India is a country of many paradoxes – and it is this quality that makes it hard for policy makers to find the right palliative for its myriad problems. The country is one of the fastest growing economies in the world and hopes to become a $ 5 trillion more...

Tackling Blowback From Sanctions
By R. Sasankan India and the US have developed close ties over the past few years as they perceive China to be a common enemy whose reach and influence must be circumscribed. On its own, India cannot counter China’s growing ambitions in the Asia-Pacific region. Likewise, more...

Gas Ratio Target: Time For A Revision?
By R. Sasankan When Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced his ambitious objective to raise the contribution of natural gas in India’s energy mix to 15 per cent by 2030, the experts in the petroleum industry were left astounded by the boldness of the claim. more...

West Coast Refinery Continues To Battle A Jinx
By R. Sasankan Industrial projects in India can never seem to skirt controversy and invariably go through a prolonged period of uncertainty as promoters fret over the roadblocks they face. The intensity of the controversy is directly proportional to the size of the more...

Can The Downstream Man Bail Out ONGC?
By R. Sasankan “New Delhi: Under-investment in the Oil & Gas sector could hamper India's progress, Arun Kumar Singh, Chairman and CEO of state-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC), has warned. National Oil Companies around the world are facing increasing pressure more...

Oil PSUs In Trouble Again
By R. Sasankan International price of crude oil has risen by 30% in the third quarter of 2023. Global crude oil inventories are at seasonal lows and production cuts, announced transparently by OPEC+ till the end of December 2023 amount to about 3.3 million barrels a more...

Gas Ratio Target: Time For A Revision?
By R. Sasankan When Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced his ambitious objective to raise the contribution of natural gas in India’s energy mix to 15 per cent by 2030, the experts in the petroleum industry were left astounded by the boldness of the claim. more...

Tackling Blowback From Sanctions
By R. Sasankan India and the US have developed close ties over the past few years as they perceive China to be a common enemy whose reach and influence must be circumscribed. On its own, India cannot counter China’s growing ambitions in the Asia-Pacific region. Likewise, more...

Glut In US Crude Pushes Down Price : Indian Wrestling With Options.
On Friday oil prices went down by 5 per cent. WTI $67.50/barrel; Brent 76.40/barrel. This difference between WTI and Brent is confusing. Normally Brent should only be about $2 costlier at most. According to market experts, the lower WTI price has to do with a glut of production in the US and lack of more...

Special Reports
Third Lovraj Kumar Memorial Lecture by Dr Vijay Kelkar
September 19, 2024: Dr Vijay Kelkar’s single biggest contribution is acknowledged to be India’s Goods and Services Tax (GST). He has also made significant contribution to the oil and gas sector. He served as secretary in the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas. The Third Lovraj Kumar Memorial Lecture delivered more...

The Failing Climate Negotiations – And the Need for India’s Leadership in Representing the Global South
Surya P. SethiMay 16, 2024: Dr Surya P.Sethi, eminent energy expert, wirtes on the Failing Climate Negotiations – And the Need for India’s Leadership in Representing the Global South. Click more...

Qatar pauses Red Sea LNG traffic: ICIS analyst view
January 18, 2024: Click HERE to read article by Alex Froley, LNG Market Analyst at ICIS, examines the possible effects of ongoing disruptions in the Red Sea on global LNG trade. more...

Can LNG replace Russian gas in Europe?
European LNG imports reached a record high in January 2022 and could go a little higher if Russian pipeline gas supply falls, or even stops completely. But the best-connected European LNG terminals are already running at high rates, and limits to cross-border pipeline gas capacity would restrict the wider benefit of higher imports into some... more...

Importance Of Offshore Wind Power
Offshore wind power market plays an important role in achieving the renewable target in most countries, but not in India. India needs a clear, time-bound, quantitative target for offshore wind development, and a roadmap of how to achieve it, says the Baroda-based Centre for Fuel Studies and Research, Click more...

Views
Speech of Former Petroleum Secretary, T.S. Vijayaraghavan, on Indias Petroleum Sector
Demand & Growth: India's Crude Oil demand has risen from 0.65 Million Barrels a day in 1980 to 3.7 Million barrels and will reach 4 Million by 2016. Internal production is now less than 0.8 Million Barrels a day. It more...

The KG basin price hike socialises costs and privatises profits
Why the Rangarajan Committee's complex pricing formula will inflict heavy burdens on the power and fertiliser sectors and give a private gas producer windfall profits? The ministry of petroleum and natural gas has proposed to increase the price of natural gas from the Krishna Godavari (KG) more...

Fire From Ice: A Promising New Energy Source
Massive imports of oil and natural gas have exacerbated India’s big trade deficit, which is a hurdle to the acceleration of economic growth. Light at the end of the tunnel comes from a technological breakthrough last week by JOGMEC (Japan Oil Gas and Metals National Corporation). It succeeded in extracting natural gas more...

The Diesel Subsidy Hole
Under-recovery on diesel as per the Indian petroleum ministry website was . 10.94 a litre in February 2012 when the procurement price was . 37.80 per litre ($122.06 a barrel). The diesel under-recoveries are expected to exceed . 750 billion at average price of $95.66 a barrel while total annual shortfall due to fuel subsidies more...

Personalities
Esha Srivastava Appointed As Govt. Nominee Director On IOCL Board
Esha SrivastavaIndian Oil Corporation Limited (IOCL) has announced the appointment of Esha Srivastava (IFS) as Government Nominee Director on its Board with effect from June 20. She is a 2004-batch Indian more...

Vikas Singh Appointed As Govt. Nominee Director On OIL Board
Vikas Singh has been appointed as Government Nominee Director on the board Oil India Limited (OIL). He is a 2007 batch Indian Revenue Service (IRS) officer and presently posted as Director in MoPNG. more...

Kapil Verma Appointed As Govt. Nominee Director On EIL Board
Engineers India Limited (EIL) has announced the appointment of Kapil Verma as Government Nominee Director on its Board. Verma’s appointment is effective immediately for a period of three years, co-terminus with the tenure or until further orders, whichever is earlier. Verma is currently serving as a Director in the more...

Kamini Chauhan Ratan Appointed As Govt. Nominee Director On GAIL Board
GAIL (India) Limited has announced a key change in its Board of Directors with the appointment of Kamini Chauhan Ratan, Additional Secretary and Financial Adviser in the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas (MoP&NG), as Government Nominee Director. Her appointment is effective from June 19, 2025. Ratan will replace more...

Indian Petro Scene - In a Nutshell
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Foreign Investment
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Overseas Investment
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Gas Scene
Domestic Natural Gas Scene Presents A Dismal Picture In May 2025
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Highlights of Domestic Natural Gas Scene In April 2025
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How Much Is India’s Domestic Production Of Natural Gas? How Much Is Natural Gas Consumption And Import Dependency?
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Where Does India figure among the world’s Top Natural Gas Consuming Countries?
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Domestic Natural Gas Scene In April Presents Declining Production, Increasing LNG imports
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Sector-Wise Consumption Of Natural Gas In FY ’25
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Dismal Performance By Domestic Natural Gas Producers In March 2025
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India’s LNG Regasification Terminal Capacity In For a Big Jump
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India’s LPG Profile as on January 1, 2025
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Domestic Natural Gas Scene In February 2025
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Domestic Natural Gas Scene In January 2025
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India’s Growing Gas Import Dependency
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Domestic Natural Gas Scene in December 2024
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India’s Total And Sector-Wise Natural Gas Consumption During April-November 2024
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Analysis Of Crude Oils Processed By Indian Refineries In May 2025
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Quantum Of Crude Oil Import Declines in May, OPEC Share Increases
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Most Global Trading Hubs Report Rising Refining Margins
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How Prices Moved In the Indian Crude Basket in June 2025?
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Retail selling price of major petroleum products in India & neighbouring countries
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BPCL To Set Up Global Crude Oil Trading Desk To Be Operationalized in FY ’26
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Analysis Of Petroleum Products Consumption During The Current FY 2025-26
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Domestic Share in India’s petroleum Products Consumption Touches All-Time Low In May 2025
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Consumption Growth Of Petroleum Products Slows In May 2025
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Profit After Tax Of India’s Oil Cos Decline In FY ’25
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Share Of Imported and Domestic Crude In Processing by Indian Refineries
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India’s Peak Power Demand Falls During April-May 25
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Status Of Shale Gas &Oil Exploration
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Significant Jump In Crude Oil Processing By Indian Refineries In FY 2024-25
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OPEC’s Global Oil Demand Forecast Remains Unchanged
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India’s Rising City Gas Distribution Sales
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How Did Prices Move In The Indian Crude Basket In May 2025?
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India’s Declining Domestic, Overseas Production Of Oil & Gas
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In recent years, India Makes Consistent Progress In Ethanol Blending With Petrol Program
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Shrinking Demand For Naphtha Looks Like A Temporary Phenomenon
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India’s Exports And Imports Of Petroleum Products Decline In April 2025
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India’s Ever Rising Peak Power Demand
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Marginal Decline In India’s Crude Oil Imports In April, OPEC share Shrinks, Russian share remains at 35.7 %
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