Energy updates from across Asia
The latest Exploration news, analysis and data from India and across Asia, reported by Energy Asia.
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has identified mining as one of six key domains for transformative reforms, alongside taxation, power, urban development, financial sector, and regulatory reforms.
Petroleum Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said over ₹1.5 lakh crore of oil bonds issued by the previous UPA government remains to be paid, limiting fiscal space…
A self-certified declaration of a commercial oil or gas discovery is all that is now needed by a company to get statutory recognition for a hydrocarbon…
The Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas, Rameswar Teli in a written reply to a question in the Rajya Sabha informed that total 105 Exploration blocks…
CNOOC Limited announced that the China's first offshore large-sized independent deep water gas field, Lingshui 17-2 gas field has commenced production.
The Nagaland government has shut down three wells of state-run energy giant ONGC for allegedly not obtaining prior permission before starting drilling activities.
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin on Sunday wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking immediate directions to the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas to…
Cairn Oil & Gas, Vedanta Limited, India's largest private oil and gas exploration and production company, has achieved a significant milestone by starting production from its…
Reliance Industries Ltd and its partner BP Plc of UK have sought bids for sale of 5.5 million standard cubic meters per day of additional natural…
Uranium exploration has been taken up in Arunachal Pradesh by the Atomic Minerals Directorate for Exploration and Research
Lok Sabha has passed a bill to amend the Mines and Mineral (Development and Regulation) Act, with Union minister Pralhad Joshi saying
Malaysia's state energy firm Petroliam Nasional Bhd, or Petronas, said on Wednesday that it had discovered gas in the Dokong-1 wildcat exploration well in the Block…
The government will create a company to own and operate India's maiden National Data Repository (NDR) that stores information on the vast sedimentary basins.
Government said that preliminary surveys on surface and limited subsurface by Atomic Minerals Directorate for Exploration and Research (AMD) have shown presence of Lithium resources of…
Oil India Limited has started its first-ever seismic survey in Tripura, kicking off exploration and production operation in the north-eastern state.
Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas Dharmendra Pradhan said that Open Acreage Licensing Policy (OALP) is a market friendly policy which is driving self-reliance in energy…
The damaged gas well at Baghjan in Assam was successfully killed and the blaze was fully doused on Sunday after over five months of a blowout.…
The Centre is looking at mining reforms, including amendments to the Mining Act and auction rules, coal and mines secretary Anil Kumar Jain said.
The Philippine president has approved the lifting of a ban on oil and gas exploration in or near disputed areas of the South China Sea that…
Mineral Exploration Corporation Limited (MECL) started exploratory drilling at Betrayaswamy block of the Kolar Gold Fields (KGF).
With an aim to achieve 1 billion tonnes (BT) coal production by the year 2023-24 and make the nation Aatmanirbhar in Coal, National Miner Coal India…
Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas is working in collaboration with various Central Government Ministries to make efforts to achieve reduction in import dependency on oil.
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