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New Delhi: India’s Oil and Natural Gas Corp on Friday said it had issued a tender seeking partners to work with it on boosting output from 64 small oil and gas fields that were handed to the state-run firm without competition.It said companies could bid individually or in groups to work with ONGC on China rubber shock absorption pad Suppliers the fields, located in 17 areas and estimated to hold reserves of 300 million tonnes of oil equivalent.India, the world’s third-largest oil consumer, currently buys over 80 per cent of its supplies from abroad.But Prime Minister Narendra Modi wants to cut the nation’s dependence on foreign oil to 67 percent by 2022.Companies that work with ONGC will be free to market and sell their share of oil and gas output as they like for up to 20 years, ONGC said.Selected partners will have rights over part of incremental output on top of baseline production from the blocks.Tokyo: The Group of 20 major economies was set to seal a deal on reducing marine plastic waste at a meeting in Japan on Sunday where they also discussed energy security following the oil tanker attacks in the Gulf of Oman.

Japan "proposed a workable framework" on marine plastic waste that involves emerging and less developed countries, and was welcomed by member countries, environment minister Yoshiaki Harada told reporters late Saturday at the G20 environment and energy ministers meeting.Plastic pollution has become an increasing inteational conce, particularly after bans imposed by China and other countries on the import of plastic waste from overseas.Many countries, including Japan, have seen plastic waste pile up in the wake of the ban. Among the many conces is the issue of microplastics, the tiny pieces of degraded waste that are difficult to collect once they enter the water.Microplastics tend to absorb harmful chemicals and accumulate inside fish, birds and other animals.The proposal, made at the two-day meeting in the central mountain resort of Karuizawa, would be the first-ever framework to reduce plastic pollution in the ocean and is expected to be included in a joint communique by the G20 ministers later Sunday.