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ONGC shares trade higher than 20 and 100-day but lower than 5, 50 and 200-day moving averages. ONGC stock has risen 1.85% in one month. Market capitalisation of the firm stood at Rs 1,00,453 crore as of today's session

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\"Rovuma Offshore Area 1 consortium (Area-1), led by Total confirms, the finalisation of the Mozambique LNG senior debt financing of $14.9 billion for the two train LNG project on July 15, 2020,\" OIL said in a exchange filing

ONGC share price slipped 3.93% to Rs 78.2 against previous close of Rs 81.40.

A consortium of eight public sector banks held 34.56 per cent stake in Petronet MHB Ltd, where ONGC and HPCL held 32.72 per cent apiece

\"Witnessed the exchange of a MoU between ONGC and ExxonMobil to identify areas for exploration in deep water in east and west coast of India,\" Oil Minister Dharmendra Pradhan said in a tweet

Keen to get multi-nationals in domestic fuel retailing to boost competition, the government is mulling selling most of its 53.3 percent stake in BPCL to a strategic partner

Privatisation of BPCL will not just shake up fuel retailing sector long dominated by state-owned firms but also help meet at least a third of the government's Rs 1.05 trillion disinvestment target

Indian firms have been in dialogue with Russia since 2017 for a possible stake in the oilfields that will consolidate their presence in the energy-rich Arctic region

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's administration already sold government stakes in a host of companies to raise a record USD 40.92 billion in his first five-year term.

Benchmark indices Sensex and Nifty closed at their day's high and ended the week with 1.61 per cent gains today. Strong domestic cues with the NDA winning the 17th Lok Sabha elections at two thirds majority has held the market on positive territory against weak global cues.  

Markets Live: Sensex closes 372 points or 0.99 per cent lower at 37,090 and Nifty ended at 11,148 down 130.70 points or 1.16 per cent.

From a zero-debt company, ONGC had to resort to borrowings in the past couple of years after the government asked it to acquire state-owned refiner HPCL, pay record dividend and buy back shares.

HPCL is keen to get MRPL in its fold citing operational synergies. It has been talking of a combination of cash and share-swap for the deal that will make it India's third-largest oil refiner

ONGC has monetised five out of the total 13 discoveries during 2018-19 on a fast-track mode which helped contribute to the growth in production from onshore fields.