Union Minister for Chemicals and Fertilizers, Shri D.V. Sadananda Gowda, while giving a written reply to a question on Plastic Parks, in Lok Sabha today, stated that there is a scheme in place to establish Plastic Parks across the country. Shri Gowda stated that in phase-I of the scheme, four Plastic parks in the States of Assam (Tinsukia), Madhya Pradesh ...

The National Policy on Biofuels-2018 notified on 8.6.2018, inter-alia, allows production of ethanol from damaged food grains like wheat, broken rice etc. which are unfit for human consumption. The policy also allows conversion of surplus quantities of food grains to ethanol, based on the approval of National Biofuel Coordination Committee. Use of damaged foodgrains and surplus foodgrains for production of ethanol will ...

Crude Oil Crude oil production[1] during February, 2019 was2563.73TMT which is13.36% lower than target and6.14% lower when compared with February, 2018.Cumulative crude oil production during April-February, 2018-19 was 31348.98 TMT which is 7.06% and 3.96% lower than the cumulative target and production respectively during the corresponding period of last year.Unit-wise and State-wise crude oil production is given at Annexure-I. Unit-wise crude oil ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited  Kochi , Kerala today and dedicated to the nation and also laid foundation stone for various projects in the state. Among the projects dedicated to the nation include Integrated Refinery Expansion Project Complex (IREP) at Kochi. IREP will be a modern expansion complex and transform Kochi refinery into the largest PSU Refinery in India with ...

The supply of natural gas in the country along with the quantum of LNG imported during the last three years and the current year is as follows: (MMSCM) Natural Gas 2015-16 2016-17 2017-18) 2018-19 (P) (April-Oct 2018)   Net availability of domestic gas   31129 30848 31731 18586 LNG import   21388 24686 26328 16468 Total consumption   52517 55534 ...

The Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas & Skill Development and Entrepreneurship Shri Dharmendra Pradhan has said that Energy is a key driver of economic growth and thus, our Government’s focus has been to bring about transformational changes in the energy landscape of India to fulfil the twin objectives of energy justice and climate justice. Speaking at a Programme here ...

Shri The Union Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas & Skill Development and Entrepreneurship Shri Dharmendra Pradhan has invited the private investors to participate and make the most of the India growth story. Speaking at the roadshow for Discovered Small Field-II bids in Abu Dhabi on Monday, he said that in the last four years, we have made giant strides in ...

Government of India’s one of the key initiative towards energy security of the country – the strategic petroleum reserves program, envisions creation of additional crude oil reserves facilities in Private Public  Partnership (PPP)  mode and the road show for the same was launched here today by Shri Dharmendra Pradhan, Minister ofPetroleum and Natural Gas and Skill Development and Entrepreneurship Speaking on the occasion, Shri ...

The Minister of State for Shipping and Finance Shri Pon Radhakrishnan in a written reply to a question in Lok Sabha today informed that under Sagarmala Programme, 243 projects (cost: Rs. 142,989 crore) have been identified for enhancing the infrastructure at Indian ports upto 2035. Out of these 44 projects (cost: Rs.8549 crore ) have been completed and 79 projects (cost: ...

The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs chaired by Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi has approved the Mechanism for procurement of ethanol by Public Sector Oil Marketing Companies (OMCs) to carry out the Ethanol Blended Petrol (EBP) Programme- Revision of ethanol price for supply to Public Sector OMCs. Now, CCEA has approved  the following for the forthcoming sugar season 2018-19 during ...