While an often cited reason for electric cars not being popular on today’s roads is that they simply do not have the range that a fossil fuel powered car has. A statistical analysis by two Columbia doctoral candidates investigating the travel preferences of 150,147 households gathered between March 2008 and May 2009 reveals that 95% [...]

Plastic waste- a burgeoning issue Plastics have become indispensable to human beings over the course of the last few decades, largely due to their utility value and cheap, easy availability. We are indeed so dependent that, in spite of the fact that they have been classified as environmentally hazardous material by the UN, the production [...]

Cairn India, a leading player in Indian oil and gas industry, from its new production facility in Rajasthan is expected to account for more than 20% of India’s total crude production. It is expected to Produce 1,75,000 barrels of oil per day (bopd), yielding enough fuel daily for about 3.4 million cars or fill 4.5 [...]

The Indian government will reopen the sale of oil and gas blocks under the eighth edition of new exploration licensing policy (NELP) as Finance Minister restores tax breaks for natural gas. The deadline for submitting bids is likely to be extended. Promotional road-shows for 70 blocks and 10 coal bed methane region were to start [...]

It is already known that the Thar Desert could be the country’s hub of solar and wind energy. The desert will also be the country’s hub of oil and natural gas. The place is identified to be rich in deposits of oil, gas, lignite coal, coal bed methane. With this new source of energy and [...]

India’s current oil production is around 660,000 barrels a day that of gas has touched 676,000 barrels of oil equivalent a day. According to the latest figures released by the ministry of petroleum and natural gas show that during the first two months of the current fiscal, domestic crude oil production stood at 40.3 million [...]