The Railways is contemplating to renegotiate loan condition with Japan for procuring high horsepower electric locomotives for the Western Dedicated Freight Corridor (DFC) as the procurement award is stuck over the pricing front.
Author: admin (Infratructure Today)
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Mangalore caverns ready for more crude oil to hold strategic reserves
The government-owned Indian Strategic Petroleum Reserves Ltd (ISPRL) is ready to fill the just-built underground rock-cut caverns near Mangalore with crude oil.
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Four natural gas processing terminals to come up
The Petroleum Ministry will set up four new terminals with a capacity of 50 million tonnes across the country for processing and supply of natural gas to ensure better availability of the gas to the industries, Dharmendra Pradhan, Minister of State (independent charge) for Petroleum and Gas has said.
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India to develop coal fields in Russia
India plans to further enlarge the scope of investment in the Russian commodity market to fuel its industries for coming decades. As part of this strategy India has offered to jointly develop coal fields and mines in Russia.
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TN wind energy output hits a high
Wind power consumption in Tamil Nadu has reached a record high. Since May 15, when the wind power season started, the state has consumed 6,087 lakh million units, which is several times more than the wind power consumption in 2014 and 2015
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India tries to recover $600 mn dues from Venezuela
India has discussed ways to recover over $600 million of past dues from Venezuela including recouping it from payments for oil it imports from the Latin American nation. ONGC Videsh Ltd owns 40 per cent of the San Cristobal oilfield but has not been paid for its share of oil sales for the last couple of years.
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Odisha power plant faces coal crisis
The 467-MW Talcher Thermal Power Station (TTPS) linked to Odisha has been facing coal shortage for the last one month due to short supply from the Jagannath coal mine.
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MNRE to decide norms for 1,000 MW wind auction
The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy has invited stakeholders for consultation to firm up norms for auction of 1,000 MW grid-connected wind power capacity. ĆĀ“It is proposed to hold another round of consultations on August 23, 2016 with stakeholders on the revised draft guidelines for the scheme for setting up 1,000 MW wind power capacity through tariff based competitive bidding,ĆĀ“ a senior official said
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Jindal Steel secures coal for Chhattisgarh plant
Jindal Steel and Power has said that it has secured coal supply of 1.18 million tonnes per year (MTPA) for five years for its 540 134 MW captive power generation plants in Dongamahua and Raigarh in Chhattisgarh
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Mumbai Metro starts structural health monitoring
Aging, deterioration and extreme events like earthquakes and hurricanes can take a toll on roads, bridges and other structures.
With damage and defects often invisible, and to alert the authorities to potential problems and even impending catastrophic failure, the Mumbai Metro One has commissioned the worldĆĀ“s first real-time advanced Structural Health Monitoring System (SHMS) for AsiaĆĀ“s tallest cable stay bridge across the Western Express Highway (WEH)