Indian govt seeks institutional monitoring of the overseas investment of oil companies

The Indian government is working on a mechanism that will ensure regular and ongoing review of large overseas investments committed by government oil and natural gas exploration and production (E&P) companies.

At an informal inter-Ministerial meeting early this month to review the performance of government E&P companies, the need for an institutionalised monitoring mechanism was expressed, considering the fact that overseas investments, already committed and planned, involved mega-investments and there was little scope of these going wrong.