The government has urged the Supreme Court to spare 46 coal blocks - 40 functional ones and six which are ready to start operations - out of the 218 declared illegal in a judgment on 25 August.
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First cross-country pipeline to connect Bangladesh
Assam-based Numaligarh Refineries, a subsidiary of Bharat Petroleum Corporation, will shortly begin work on laying a product pipeline from Siliguri in West Bengal to Parbatipur in Bangladesh.
OVL talks to Pemex for Mexico tie-up
ONGC Videsh (OVL) is in talks with Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex), the national oil company of Mexico for a potential tie-up to pick up equity in exploration and production assets in the Latin American nation.
NTPC to import 17 mt of coal this fiscal
The state-owned NTPC plans to import 17 million tonne (mt) of coal this fiscal which is higher than the quantity purchased last financial year.
IOC to commission Paradip refinery soon
Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) expects to commission its oil refinery at Paradip soon as 96 per cent of the construction work at the project is already complete. The refinery is the company´s largest investment in a single project and is also the first zero-residue refinery of the country.
RIL plans $13-bn projects
Reliance Industries (RIL) plans to invest about $13 billion in energy projects, including a 400,000 barrels per day (bpd) crude refinery at its Jamnagar complex.
CIL misses output target again
Coal India produced only 34.54 million tonne of coal in August, missing the target for a fourth month, even as acute fuel shortages continue to hit power generation. The target for August was 35.13 million tonne (mt).
Alstom bags Rs.3,250 cr PowerGrid contract for transmission link
Alstom has been awarded Euro 400 million (Rs 3,250 crore) from Power Grid Corporation for building a transmission link between Haryana and Chhattisgarh.
Coal shortage: Gujarat shuts 25% power capacities
With power plants in Gujarat facing acute shortage of coal, 7,563 MW of power generation capacities have closed down. This is more than a quarter of state´s total installed 18,510 MW capacities.
NTPC to revise Katwa capacity
NTPC remained optimistic of the super critical 1,320 MW Katwa thermal plant in West Bengal.

