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ONGC plans $18-20 billion deep-water exploration push, aims for largest ever oil drilling project for India’s energy security

OpIndia Staff - 25 March, 2026

ONGC issued a global tender for hiring deep water oil rigs as part of the government's Samudra Manthan mission, which seeks to enhance India's energy security.

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LPG, LNG, and the host of other oil products that run the world: Read the differences and how India acquires them

Raju Das - 13 March, 2026

Natural Gas is compressed by cooling it to 161°C, at which temperature it becomes liquid and called Liquefied Natural Gas. LPG or Liquefied Petroleum Gas is one of the products derived from both crude oil and natural gas.

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Explained: How Iran’s Strait of Hormuz blockade and Qatar’s LNG halt could trigger an unprecedented global energy shock

Shraddha Pandey - 3 March, 2026

The decision came after Iranian drone strikes targeted an energy facility of Qatar’s state-owned energy giant, QatarEnergy, in the massive Ras Laffan Industrial City and a water tank at a power plant in Mesaieed Industrial City.

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Growing consensus to bring natural gas and aviation fuel under the ambit of GST: Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri

ANI - 24 January, 2025

Union Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas Hardeep Puri on Friday said that there is a growing consensus to bring natural gas under the ambit of GST

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CNG and PNG rates likely to fall as Modi government approves Kirit Parikh Committee’s recommendations on domestic natural gas prices

OpIndia Staff - 6 April, 2023

CNG and PNG prices are reviewed by the government each year. Nevertheless, there was no modification in gas prices on April 1, 2023, since the government was yet to make a decision about the Parikh Committee's recommendations.

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Iran threatens to impose $18 billion penalty on Pakistan: Here is why

OpIndia Staff - 2 February, 2023

The Iran-Pakistan Pipeline Project, also known as Peace Project, had initially included India as well.

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Russia’s Gazprom trolls Siemens Energy over ‘lonely’ turbine that has been the centre of conflict over Nordstream 1 supplies to Europe

Sanghamitra - 19 August, 2022

A curious reality of the Russia-Ukraine conflict is that while Western powers provide billions in aid and weapons to Ukraine, they also keep paying billions to Russia for energy, thus funding both sides of a conflict.

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Russian energy giant Gazprom halts supplies to Bulgaria and Poland, reports say EU trying to increase gas purchase in Roubles to help them

OpIndia Staff - 27 April, 2022

Russian media has reported that the European Union would be temporarily increasing its gas purchases from Russia through countries which are ready to do their payments in Russian Roubles to compensate for the demand of Poland and Bulgaria.