September 19, 2017: National Seismic Program is an ambitious project. The state-owned ONGC and Oil India are assigned to do this herculean task . Industry circles claim significant progress in doing the seismic survey. Click column Special Reports for details.

September 15, 2017: India’s state-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) has not slowed down its drilling activities after the crash in crude price. It owns and operates a fleet of 105 rigs, both offshore and onshore. Of the total of 105, ONGC owns as many as 70 rigs and the rest charter-hired. Click column Special Database for rigs position as on April 1, 2017.

September 11, 2017 | Ennore Terminal: Ego Battle Looms: Indian Oil Corporation (IOC), the largest refining and marketing company of India, is acknowledged to display a superiority complex in its dealings with others in the petroleum sector. This arises mostly from its size, making co-existence with other oil companies difficult in any Joint Venture. Other PSU players in the petroleum sector too have their strong likes and dislikes. The domestic gas industry seems to be in love with Prabhat Singh, the CEO and MD of Petronet LNG Ltd. They never accepted his predecessors as experts capable of managing a gas company, but kept quiet because PLL is presided over by the petroleum secretary in his capacity as its ex-officio chairman. Singh gets support from quite a few gas veterans in his attempts to make his company the operator of IOC’s LNG regasification terminal at Ennore. They cite wrong reasons for their support. We probed to find that the support arises from the fact that Singh is the first Gas Man to be the chief executive of PLL. He is also known to be pleasant in his dealings with colleagues. Click Free Access column Petro Intelligence for details.