Essar Oil eyes 2X gas production from its coal bed methane blockEssar’s current output of 0.9 million metric standard cubic meters a day (mmscmd) from Raniganj East block in West Bengal will rise to 2.3-...
08 Feb, 2024, 05.41 PM IST
Manual horizontal digging begins at Silkyara tunnelRescue operations at the Silkyara tunnel in Uttarkashi involve both vertical drilling by SJVNL and manual horizontal digging. SJVNL has dri...
28 Nov, 2023, 11.35 AM IST
"Everyone has been trying, hope that work is completed at earliest": U'khand CM on rescue op at Silkyara tunnelUttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami has said that efforts to evacuate 41 trapped workers inside the Silkyara tunnel are ongoing ...
27 Nov, 2023, 10.09 AM IST
Rescuers now begin vertical drilling at Silkyara tunnelFollowing the auger machine setback, the Satluj Jal Vidyut Nigam Limited on Sunday started vertical drilling. The rescuers have to drill do...
27 Nov, 2023, 12.03 AM IST
Efforts on to retrieve broken parts of auger machine, vertical drilling starts at Silkyara tunnel: NDMAThe National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) in India is intensifying efforts to rescue 41 workers trapped in the Silkyara tunnel in U...
26 Nov, 2023, 05.16 PM IST
Silkyara Tunnel Crash: Auger machine fails again; experts stop providing rescue deadlineVertical drilling may start in the "next 24 to 36 hours" as machines are being placed on a platform on top of the tunnel, he said. About 86...
25 Nov, 2023, 11.37 PM IST
Rescue operation to take time to bring out workers trapped in Silkyara tunnel: NDMAThe NDMA member further said a very difficult operation is going on. Two methods are being used currently, but a third method that is drift...
25 Nov, 2023, 07.34 PM IST
Silkyara tunnel: Hurdles in the way delay rescue operationFormer advisor to the PMO, Bhaskar Khulbe, who was at the site, said an iron mesh which had come in the path of the drilling machine that w...
24 Nov, 2023, 11.06 AM IST
Green Channel to move machinery createdThe PMO is coordinating the movement of these heavy machinery and has been in touch with officials from state and central agencies. Princip...
23 Nov, 2023, 12.32 AM IST
Hope rises as horizontal drilling in Silkyara tunnel progresses to 42 metersThe horizontal drilling operation, initially paused on Friday due to a challenging obstacle encountered by the American-made heavy-duty aug...
22 Nov, 2023, 05.31 PM IST
Tunnel collapse: Former PMO advisor says trapped workers are in 'high spirits'Bhaskar Khulbe, former advisor to the Prime Minister's Office, visited the Silkyara Tunnel where 41 workers have been trapped for 11 days. ...
22 Nov, 2023, 01.08 PM IST
41 Silkyara tunnel workers may see the light of day in 72 hoursThe Indian government is aiming to rescue all 41 workers trapped in the Silkyara tunnel in Uttarkashi within two and a half days as horizon...
21 Nov, 2023, 11.43 PM IST
Uttarkashi tunnel collapse: New drill begins rescue workThe machine penetrated around 12 meters inside the debris on the second half of the day. The rescue team has undertaken both the exercise s...
17 Nov, 2023, 11.07 AM IST
Uttarkashi tunnel collapse: Centre airlifts big drilling machines to aid tunnel relief operationsAccording to a list of the trapped workers issued by the emergency operation centre, 15 are from Jharkhand, eight from Uttar Pradesh, five ...
16 Nov, 2023, 05.03 PM IST
Day 3 of rescue ops at Uttarakhand tunnel: Hope builds up for evacuation of 40 labourers todayOn Day 3 of the operation, the rescue team started carrying out horizontal drilling to insert a steel pipe of 900 mm diameter to ensure saf...
15 Nov, 2023, 12.15 AM IST
Russo-Finnish smart drilling tech could boost India’s oil well productivity: ReportZYFRA has invested USD 9 million in acquiring a controlling stake in Geosteering Technologies (GTI), one of the leading vendors of “smart d...
25 Sep, 2019, 09.34 PM IST
- Cairn India-led JV set to increase production in KG basin
Cairn India-led Ravva JV is set to increase its production in KG basin from the current rate of 38,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day to...
06 May, 2011, 06.21 PM IST