Oil in the diet of Sakhalin whales
Environmentalists are again sounding alarm over the future of the unique population of the Western Pacific gray whales.
This time, Exxon Neftegaz Limited (ENL), a participant in oil projects on Sakhalin, is laying a pipeline via the Piltun Bay, a key feeding area for the gray whales.
Any negative impact on this area during […]
THE ONGC Videsh Limited (OVL), a subsidiary whose primary business is to bid for oil and gas acreages abroad and produce hydrocarbons, is going places. According to R.S. Butola, Managing Director, OVL, the company contributes 8 million tonnes of oil and oil-equivalent gas, which he says, is “quite significant from the overall perspective, considering that the country’s total production is 50 million tonnes of oil and oil-equivalent gas”. He gave another piece of statistics to prove its excellent performance: “In 2003, we were in seven countries. In 2008, we are in 17 countries in 35 projects and 50 blocks.” 



