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Top Stories
•	Oil tops $55 for first time in 16 months as OPEC deal fuels buying
•	PM Narendra Modi invites foreign firms to invest in oil, gas exploration
•	Oil prices to spike with OPEC output cut, says oil minister Pradhan
•	Higher oil prices a risk to India's growth trajectory: Dharmendra Pradhan
•	Cairn India lines up Rs 30,000 crore to add 1 lakh barrels per day of oil

Oil & Gas
•	Modi says hydrocarbons will continue as Indias main energy source for years
•	Full text of Prime Minister Modi's energetic speech at Petrotech-2016
•	Government urges OPEC to reconsider crude oil output cut decision
•	OPECs decision to cut production not contingent upon talks with non-OPEC members: Secy General Barkindo
•	ONGC to begin oil production from Ratna R-Series field in 2019
•	MRPL readies Rs 11,000 crore plan to hit 25 mt refining capacity
•	India's oil demand to more than double to 10-mn bpd by 2040: OPEC Secy Gen Barkindo
•	Bhutan in talks with Indian Oil, Bharat Petroleum to ramp up fuel availability

Coal
•	Gautam Adani secures milestone in planned $16 bn Australian coal project
•	Govt has issued 12 notices to private firms for non-compliance to coal mine development norms
•	Bangladesh not looking at importing coal from India at present: energy minister

Power
•	PM Modi asks Indian energy companies to become Multi National Corporations
•	Consumers to get 20 Watt LED tube lights at Rs 230: Piyush Goyal
•	Demonetisation is a positive event for power sector: Mercom Capital
•	Dabhol stakeholders agree to demerger, PFC opposesmove
•	Tata Power's Strategic Engineering Division wins Rs 200 crore order from defence
•	Electricity staff unions in Telangana call off strike

Renewable
•	India's emission intensity of GDP reduced by 12 percent between 2005 and 2010
•	India will get at least $100-bn investment from SoftBank: Masayoshi Son