{"id":13394,"date":"2025-02-23T04:11:02","date_gmt":"2025-02-23T04:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/?p=13394"},"modified":"2025-02-23T04:11:02","modified_gmt":"2025-02-23T04:11:02","slug":"oil-india-signs-mou-with-mecl-to-explore-and-develop-critical-mineral-blocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/13394\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil India signs MoU with MECL to explore and develop critical mineral blocks"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\" itemprop=\"description\"><p><span class=\"pre-content-text\"><a style=\"color: #0038a8;\" href=\"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/\">RoydadNaft &#8211; <\/a><\/span>\u00a0State-run Oil India Limited (OIL), a Maharatna CPSE under the aegis of the Ministry of Petroleum &amp; Natural Gas and a premier integrated energy company has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Mineral Exploration and Consultancy Limited (MECL), a Miniratna-I CPSE under the Ministry of Mines, Government of India, to collaborate in the exploration and development of critical mineral blocks in India and overseas.<\/p>\n<p data-reader-unique-id=\"3\">The MoU was signed in the presence of CMD, the Director, and senior officers from OIL and MECL.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p data-reader-unique-id=\"22\">This strategic partnership marks a significant milestone in fostering the exploration of critical minerals both in India and overseas, recognizing their vital importance for the nation\u2019s energy security and sustainable growth.<\/p>\n<p data-reader-unique-id=\"23\">Under this collaboration, OIL and MECL will jointly undertake exploration activities aimed at identifying, evaluating, and developing mineral-rich blocks both in India and overseas, including the recently awarded block of OIL\u2014the Phop Graphite and Vanadium block in Arunachal Pradesh.<\/p>\n<p data-reader-unique-id=\"24\">Shares of Oil India were trading in the red zone, down by 3.40% at Rs 391.85.<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-date no-social-btn post-updated\">Updated on<time class=\"updated dt-updated\" itemprop=\"dateModified\" datetime=\"2025-02-23T04:11:02+00:00\"> 23 February 2025<\/time><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oil India Limited has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Mineral Exploration and Consultancy Limited to collaborate on the exploration and development of critical mineral blocks in India and overseas.","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13395,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[47,46,36,19,16,35],"tags":[],"services":[],"class_list":["post-13394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-international","category-lastnews","category-news","category-oil","category-topnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13394"},{"taxonomy":"services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/services?post=13394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}