Petroleum Industry Current Affairs, GK & News
Core sector Growth of India hit due to Lock Down
The core sectors of India include crude oil, steel, natural gas, refinery product, cement, fertilizer, electricity and coal. According to the figures released by the Ministry of Commerce recently, the production of core industries of India shrank in March, 2020 due to lock down. Highlights The output of the core industries has reduced by 6.5% ..
Month: Current Affairs - May, 2020
Category: Reports & Indexes Current Affairs
Topics: Cement • Central Statistics Office (CSO) • CSO • Eight core sectors • Electricity • Index of Eight Core Industries • Index of Eight core sectors • Index of industrial production • Petroleum Industry
GoI launches paperless licensing of petroleum service stations
On January 20, 2020, the Department of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) announced that it has launched paperless licensing process for petroleum service stations. The paperless licensing has been launched under Petroleum Rules, 2002. The implementing agency of the order would be Petroleum and Explosives Safety Organization (PESO). Highlights The issue of paperless license for ..
Month: Current Affairs - January, 2020
Category: Economy & Banking Current Affairs - 2022
Topics: DPIIT • Ministry of Commerce & Industry • Petrol and Diesel Price • Petroleum Industry • Petroleum products • Transport
India becomes most favoured destination for energy investments
Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan said, India is among the top 10 FDI destinations in the world while addressing the investors in Abu Dhabi on 12 Nov at the roadshow organized by the Directorate General of Hydrocarbons (DGH) to promote India as a favorable investment destination in the oil and gas sector . India presently being ..
Topics: Abu Dhabi • Directorate General of Hydrocarbons • Energy • Fossil fuels • Hydrocarbons • Peak oil • Petroleum Industry • Petroleum politics
Current Strategic Oil Reserve facilities in India
The strategic fuel or oil reserve facilities are used for emergency reasons. The Indian Strategic Petroleum Reserve has a total fuel store of total 5 MMT (million metric tonnes) which is enough to fuel 10 days of consumption. Currently the strategic crude oil storages are at 3 underground locations in Mangalore, Vishakhapatnam and Padur. They ..
Topics: Energy • Energy security • Global strategic petroleum reserves • Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas • Oil and gas industry in India • Oil storage • Petroleum Industry • Strategic Petroleum Reserve
Issues around Kochi-Kootanad-Bengaluru-Mangalore Pipeline Project
In the first week of February, 2016, India’s Chief Justice TS Thakur while passing orders on Kochi-Kootanad-Bengaluru- Mangalore project rebuked the state government of Tamil Nadu and said that: “Such interference in projects of national importance for ‘votes’ is tantamount to a breakdown of constitutional machinery”. The three judge bench ruled that the project must ..
Topics: Kochi-Kootanad-Bengaluru-Mangalore Pipeline • Petroleum Industry • Pipelines in India
ONGC gets environmental clearance for project in Krishna-Godavari basin
State owned Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited (ONGC) has received environmental clearance for a project in the Krishna-Godavari (KG) basin in Andhra Pradesh. Under this clearance, ONGC project has been allowed to drill 45 development wells and other related infrastructure will cost over 53,000 crore rupees at offshore KG-DWN-98/2 block. Other clearances ONGC also ..
Month: Current Affairs - January, 2016
Topics: Andhra Pradesh • Current Affairs 2016 • Envrionment • MoEFCC • ONGC • Petroleum Industry