India’s biggest oil explorer, Oil and Natural Gas Corp. (ONGC), plans to build strategic crude reserves as the country seeks to strengthen its buffers against supply disruptions. The state-run producer will invest 70 billion rupees ($736 million) to develop underground storage in southern India able to hold about 13 MMbbl of crude, Chairman Arun Kumar Singh told reporters in […]
Member countries of the International Energy Agency unanimously agreed Wednesday to release 400 million barrels of oil into the global market – the largest release of emergency oil stocks in history – in a drastic move aimed at shoring up crude supplies and capping a surge in prices caused by the conflict in the Middle East.