IOC to buy 1.9 mn barrels of US crude; first to buy Eagle Ford shale oil
The Dollar Business Bureau State-owned Oil Corporation Ltd (IOC) purchased 1.9 million barrels of crude from the US in its second tender to import oil from the US, which makes it the first Indian oil company to buy Eagle Ford shale oil, a senior official from the company revealed to the media on Friday. IOC, India’s largest commercial enterprise, purchased 950,000 barrels of light sweet Eagle Ford shale oil and the same quantity of heavy sour Mars crude from trading company Trafigura, for delivery at October end, A.K. Sharma, Finance Director, IOC, told a leading international news agency. The recent purchase by IOC comes after an earlier import tender where the refiner purchased 400,000 barrels of Western Canadian Select and 1.6 million barrels ...
Indian firms likely to invest $6 bn in Mozambique ONG sector
Sai Nikesh | The Dollar Business Indian oil companies are likely to make an investment of around $ 6 billion in Mozambique’s oil and gas exploration sector. A statement to this effect was made by Dharmendra Pradhan, Indian Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Petroleum and Natural Gas, on Monday, say the reports. The Minister was said to have informed that the State-run Oil & Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC), Oil India Limited (OIL) and Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL), will be investing around $ 6 billion for development of a giant gas field off the Mozambique coast, over the next four years. Besides the development of the gas field, the investments are also focused at converting the fuel into ...
