"Not even one of the top five international oil majors participated in National Exploration and Licensing Policy rounds (bids) in the past three years... top private foreign players such as Exxon, Shell, Chevron, Statoil, Conoco Phillips have never participated in a single NELP round," Reliance Power CEO J P Chalsani said in a statement.
Stating that NELP rounds over the last three years revealed the absolute failure of Petroleum Ministry to attract any global capital flows, he said this was also due to "clear and visible partnership in favour of domestic players like RIL."
Another Anil Ambani group firm Reliance Natural Resources Ltd is engaged in a bitter battle with Mukesh Ambani-led RIL over supply of gas at a committed price and the matter is scheduled to come up for hearing before the Supreme Court on September 1.
Criticising the Director General of Hydrocarbons for alleging that the ongoing RIL-RNRL battle would have a negative impact on global investment flow in India's oil and gas sector, Chalsani said the failure was due to the absence of well-defined, transparent and consistent policy regime of the Petroleum Ministry.