Mumbai: State-owned oil and gas major ONGC has decided to invest around Rs 1,22,000 crore to expand its activities in the existing five-year (11th) plan period. This will also include Rs 20,000 crore investment in the country’s east coast.
Director R S Sharma, ONGC Chairman and Managing Director, said, “We have plans to invest Rs 76,000 crore domestically and Rs 46,000 crore overseas during the current five-year plan period ending 2012.”
Mittal Investments has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with HPCL, Oil India, GAIL and France’s Total S.A. to develop a refinery and petrochemical plant in Visakhapatnam. LN Mittal group will also be working with HPCL to set up a refinery in Bhatinda, Punjab. The Bhatinda refinery project has been delayed for many years due to political issues and Mittal Group was successful in picking up 49% stake in the project.
In the statement issued, HPCL CMD Mr. Arun Balakrishnan said, "We have signed a memorandum of understanding to study the feasibility of a refinery and a petrochemical complex. We expect to receive the report by March."
New Delhi: Allaying the hearsay regarding increase in the kerosene and domestic Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) costs, together with that of petrol and diesel in the recent year (2007), the Union Gov