Petroleum and Natural Gas Rules 2025 amended to ease business and operations, informs Hardeep Puri

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Seeking to fortify infrastructure for home exploration and production, Petroleum and Natural Gas Rules (2025) person been amended to “offer easiness of concern and operations, Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri informed Thursday. Among the much important of the amendments, it provides for granting agelong duration leases, that is, up to 30 years from the contiguous 20 years, much importantly, which tin beryllium extended to the “life of the field”. This allows a imaginable lessee to marque an informed concern determination for a longer horizon.

India continues to fortify the infrastructure for home exploration and accumulation of hydrocarbons arsenic we determination up towards achieving vigor information nether the dynamic enactment of PM Sh @narendramodi Ji.
In a landmark infinitesimal today, the Petroleum and Natural Gas Rules,… pic.twitter.com/dBjRXMQy8i

— Hardeep Singh Puri (@HardeepSPuri) December 11, 2025

Further, those availing the lease, volition person the close to transportation retired each types of mineral lipid cognition with conscionable a azygous petroleum lease.

They would beryllium nevertheless required to marque an yearly declaration to the authorities of the installed, utilised and excess capableness of the infrastructure facilities they own. The rules licence lessees to jointly make oregon stock infrastructure facilities by communal agreement.

However, the notified rules heighten the penalties for contravention of rules to ₹25 lakh, and ₹10 lakh for each time successful lawsuit of continued contravention.

The latest notification replaces Petroleum and Natural Gas Rules (1959). 

Published - December 12, 2025 06:00 americium IST

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