Submitted by TheIndiaStreet on July 9, 2008 - 7:40am.
· Petroleum Ministry announced that they have received 181 bids from 96 companies for 45 oil and gas exploration blocks · Government could not find bidders for the 12 blocks that were the recycled blocks
· ONGC and its partners had bagged 20 blocks, BHP Billiton-BP-GVK consortium seven, BP-Reliance Industries one block and HPCL-Mittal combine 3 blocks
