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M.K. Bhadrakumar
Why the OPEC+ Deal is a Many-Splendoured Thing
16 Apr 2020
The world’s oil producers are joining together for the largest cooperative production initiative in history.
Neelambaran A
Fifth Round of Bidding Announced for Hydrocarbon Exploration
17 Jan 2020
Even as the farmers of delta region were protesting against the exploration in the onland areas, the present announcement has set the alarm bells ringing in the fishing community.
Govt ‘Haste’ to Privatise BPCL Worries Employees, as Global Monopolies Eye Expansion
09 Oct 2019
The profit-making PSU’s employees have written to PMO, cautioning it about private monopolies taking over oil sector
M.K. Bhadrakumar
Winners and Losers from Saudi Aramco’s Travails
16 Sep 2019
The focus should be on winding down the war in Yemen, where it becomes crucial for Riyadh and Abu Dhabi to engage with Iran.
M.K. Bhadrakumar
Modi Govt Caves in to US Diktat on Iran Oil
24 Apr 2019
Prime Minister Narendra Modi travels around the country every day claiming to be the defender of national interests in Pulwama, Balakot, ASAT and so on. But he’s keeping deafening silence on the one…
Praneta Jha
41 Oil Blocks To Vedanta Is Corporate Bonanza, While ONGC Is Bled Dry
01 Sep 2018
Auction of 55 oil and gas exploration blocks was held under the new and extremely liberalised Open Acreage Licensing Policy. And ONGC, the country’s largest crude oil and natural gas company in the…
Newsclick Report
Oil Tanker Drivers In Odisha To Go On Strike On 16 April
11 Apr 2018
The workers responsible for transporting fuel across the state are demanding a minimum pay of Rs 30,000 for the drivers and Rs 18,000 for the helpers.
V. Arun Kumar
Kurdistan Independence: Barzani is Negotiating from a Weak Position
25 Oct 2017
After the rapid offensive by Iraqi forces and the capture of oil rich town of Kirkuk, the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) have called for ceasefire and dialogue.
Graham Vanbergen
Data Overtakes Oil as Leading (Geopolitical) Global Commodity
25 Oct 2017
Data, the leading reason why tech exists in today’s world has overtaken oil as the number one traded global commodity and is now worth exactly double budgeted global defence spending.
Prabir Purkayastha
Smuggled IS Oil: Turkey's Hand in the Cookie Jar
08 Dec 2015
The domestic attacks in Paris earlier, and now San Benardino and London, are condemnable. Such attacks should open western eyes that terror, as an instrument of state policy, cannot be used without…