Petrol, Diesel price today, May 21: If you are a consumer of petrol in Delhi, you will be paying Rs 105.41 per litre, while consumers of diesel in the national capital will be paying Rs 96.67 per litre.

Following a shareholder vote yesterday, Australian liquefied natural gas (LNG) developer Woodside Petroleum (ASX:WPL) will change its name to Woodside Energy Group as it prepares to embrace the energy transition.

US supermajor ExxonMobil is selling for $750 million its stake in one of the world’s first actively produced shale plays, the Barnett shale of Texas in the US, to BKV Corporation. ExxonMobil in 2020 removed the company's Barnett holdings from its development plan and had been actively marketing the assets since last November.

India is in talks with Russia over a deal to buy oil at discounted rates, the chairman of state-run Hindustan Petroleum Corp said on Thursday, at a time when much of the West is shunning Russian crude over the conflict in Ukraine.

ONGC, Bharat Petroleum, Indian Oil, and Oil India have also held preliminary discussions among themselves to evaluate buying BP's 20% stake in Russian energy giant Rosneft.

Gautam Adani and Mukesh Ambani are profiting from a surge in global commodity prices triggered by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, burnishing their fossil-fuel credentials even as Asia’s richest men publicly push their pivots toward greener energy. With coal prices skyrocketing to a record, Adani’s conglomerate is expanding a controversial mine in Australia to meet demand.

Brent crude futures were up $1.15, or 1.0 per cent, at $113.08 a barrel at 0042 GMT, while US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures climbed $1.62, or 1.4 per cent, to $114.02 a barrel, paring some losses after oil prices fell by around 2 per cent in the previous session.

State-owned GAIL (India) Ltd will build one of India's largest proton exchange membrane (PEM) electrolyzer at Guna in Madhya Pradesh to produce green hydrogen by the end of 2023, as it looks to supplement ‎its natural gas business with carbon-free fuel. In a statement, India's largest gas transporting and marketing firm said it has awarded the contract to set up the PEM-based project that will produce 4.3 tonnes of green hydrogen per day (about 10 MW capacity), which will be mixed in natural gas for supply to industries.

According to preliminary readings from CME Group for crude oil futures markets, traders added around 18.3K contracts to their open interest positions on Thursday. Volume, instead, shrank for the second session in a row, this time by nearly 96K contracts.

NEW YORK: Oil prices sank about 6% yesterday alongside equities, as continued coronavirus lockdowns in China, the top oil importer, fed worries about the demand outlook.

Crude oil production by OPEC and its partners fell to a six month low of 41.58 million b/d in April as Russian production took a battering from Western sanctions

A refining golden age, tightening global gas markets and improving telecom subscriber quality point to a USD 20 billion-plus EBITDA run rate for Reliance Industries Ltd by end-2022, Morgan Stanley

"Joshi, the senior-most director on the HPCL board, was in January picked by the government headhunter PESB to replace Mukesh Kumar Surana. "

European Union governments moved closer on Sunday to agreeing to tough sanctions against Russia over its invasion of Ukraine, but scheduled more talks for Monday to work out how to ensure countries most dependent on Russian energy can cope.

The G7 nations committed to the move "in a timely and orderly fashion" at an online meeting on Sunday to put further pressure on President Vladimir Putin,

"Consolidated PAT before Exceptional Items up by 76 per cent YoY (year-on-year) at Rs 775 Crore in March quarter vs Rs 440 Crore in Q4 FY21 (March quarter), " the company said in the statement.

The two foreign ministers noted the potential for a closer India-Italy industrial collaboration in the defence sector and vowed to work closely in countering common challenges of terrorism, violent extremism and cybercrimes.

"The conglomerate, which is owned by Asia's richest man Mukesh Ambani, reported a net profit of 162.03 billion ($2.1 billion) between January and March, 22.5 percent than the same period last year."