The bidding frenzy for coal-bed methane blocks heats up as Reliance Industries and the Essar Group step into the ring. The Directorate Gene...

In his posts on X, the Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas, Shri Hardeep Singh Puri, highlighted that India is moving beyond blind explo...

The eighth round under the open acreage licensing policy (OALP) was launched on July 7 last year, with a bid submission deadline of Septemb...

“There are no restrictions on monetization of discovery at an early stage within these timelines (provided under the contracts); rather it ...

A new policy, named Hydrocarbon Exploration Policy, replaced NELP this year but most contracts signed under previous policies are alive and...

55-year-old Chakraborty has been appointed for four-year term in the rank of Additional Secretary as chief of DGH, an order issued by Depar...

Four months after giving charge of oil and gas field regulator DGH to a senior bureaucrat, the Petroleum Ministry.

The government has finally put out an advertisement to appoint a full-time head of the upstream regulator Directorate General of Hydrocarbo...

A strategy paper prepared by the caretaker of the country's hydrocarbons treasure suggests that the "over-cautious approach" in evaluating ...

Talukdar, who took over as the head of the Directorate General of Hydrocarbons (DGH) on February 6, 2014, was to superannuate yesterday aft...

Ten months after a bureaucrat was appointed as DGH, the Oil Ministry is looking for a technocrat to the head the upstream oil regulatory bo...

The government has decided to appoint a new Director General of Hydrocarbons, ending the nine-month experiment of having an IAS officer in ...

The oil ministry has told the Prime Minister's Office it will set up a special cell at the Directorate General of Hydrocarbons to expeditio...

Says the new system would be more transparent and need minimal bureaucratic intervention in routine exploration, activities of private cos.

The Directorate General of Hydrocarbons (DGH), the technical arm of the oil ministry, has approved Cairn India's proposal to commence produ...

DGH has suggested USD 1.235 bn investment of RIL being disallowed over the firm's failure to adhere to prestated drilling targets.

Europe's second biggest oil company BP Plc on Wednesday opposed upstream oil regulator DGH's and oil ministry's demand for drilling more we...