India drives ahead with ambitious plans

摘要

INCREDIBLE India" has been the tourism mantra of the government since 2002 and it certainly seems to be working - in December last year a record 1.19 million foreign tourists arrived in the country. However, the authorities are well aware that attracting such international interest in the nation's oil and gas industry is going to take a lot more than a catchy alliterative slogan. Supermajors BP and Shell do already have significant upstream businesses in India but the nation has been hoping to attract more through initiatives such as its novel Hydrocarbon Exploration & Licensing Policy (HELP), the first round of which was launched in August 2017.