Simply Put: Reinventing fire

New law will make Nigeria’s petroleum industry attractive to investors

Among the main objectives of the Petroleum Industry Act are to define the relationship between the society, investors; create regulatory and …

Simply Put: Soft landing

Anglican clergy joins efforts to stop oil drilling in the Kavango

A Canadian company has the rights to drill for oil in more than 35,000 square kilometres of the Kavango Basin in Namibia

Assam fire: MB Lal Committee recommendations not implemented for a decade

One of the recommendations, of building emergency response centres to handle major oil fires was to be completed in 2014

Simply Put: LPG vs firewood

Simply Put: Costly LPG

BHP’s offloading of oil and gas assets shows the global market has turned on fossil fuels

BHP, which was founded in 1885 and plans to be around for the long term, has seen the writing on the wall. It is getting out while it can

As told to Parliament (March 10, 2021): 280 million LPG consumers in India

All that was discussed in the House through the day

India researchers make petrol from plastic

The Indian Institute of Petroleum has developed a technology that uses a combination of catalysts to produce high-quality diesel and petrol

Is natural gas actually cleaner than coal? Growing evidence says maybe not

The fact that methane emissions from the oil and gas sector are said to be vastly underreported clearly shows that natural gas is not “very …

Coal liquefaction: India’s ticket to energy independence?

The Indian government should facilitate in bringing leading foreign companies investing in domestic Coal-To-Liquid projects with private Indian …

BP and British media must stop green-washing

All promises of climate action must come with estimates of costs and emissions mitigated

Emissions from oil have risen most during last one year; overall global carbon emission reached all time high

Emission reduction reaches a plateau; overshoot to 1.5-degree Celsius rise inevitable; says multiple reports

Simply Put: Full of gas

Global warming: 400 million tonnes CO2 pumped to atmosphere a year from this source the world is blind to

Gas flared at oil and gas facilities is greater than EU’s total import from Russia and a key source of methane emission

Major victory for indigenous groups in Ecuadorian Amazon

Chinese company pulls out of contract to drill for oil in remote rainforest after protests by indigenous groups

Researchers develop super-hydrophobic cotton for oil-spill cleanup

Both heavy and light oils can be effectively absorbed by a super-hydrophobic Cotton, developed by IIT-Guwahati, which is easy to prepare, cost-…

Cabinet defers gas price hike by three months

Fertiliser and gas-based electricity companies get a breather as government decides to scrutinise the the gas pricing formula approved by …

Climate goals at stake: State support for fossil fuels almost doubled in 2021

51 countries doubled the amount of expenditure on fossil fuels, according to an analysis by OECD and IEA

Freedom fuel: This Pune entrepreneur spawned a quiet clean cooking revolution; here is how

Vishakha Chandhere experiments with cooking devices powered by solar and biomass to beat rising LPG prices

Russia-Ukraine war to have ‘ripple effects’ on India’s fuel prices: Experts

India should take this as a market signal and channel investments into electric vehicles and green hydrogen, which are substitutes for oil and gas,…

Petro to Electro: A new transition that will change the world, has begun

The geopolitics of the world will shift from oil producing countries to the rare earth and other critical mineral producing countries in the …

Odisha begins process to extract oil from grounded ship in Chilika

The Malaysian ship has been lying grounded in the lake since August 7

India, Japan to improve bilateral cooperation towards clean energy transition

Indian subcontinent’s massive renewable energy potential can boost green hydrogen production