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ONGC to build $736 million strategic oil reserve in India

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 […]

Countries agree on historic release of crude reserves to lower oil and gasoline prices

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.