Media reports say that Indian banks borrowed Rs 50 million ($850,340) through the RBI's marginal standing facility (MSF) on July 25, the RBI data showed on July 26. The RBI raised the MSF rate by 200 basis points to 10.25 per cent on July 15, 300 basis points higher than the policy repo rate of 7.25 per cent.
Author: admin (Infratructure Today)
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GAIL looks to buy 13 LNG cargoes in FY13
GAIL Chairman BC Tripathi said on July 25 that the company needs to buy 13 cargoes this fiscal year to March out of its planned 34. GAIL received 7 cargoes in the first quarter of the fiscal year, Tripathi said. He added that contracts for 21 cargoes have already been finalised.
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Scindia seeks gas supply for $21 bn power plants
Union Power Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia has emphasised over an urgent solution on fuel woes to generate an additional 14,000 mw of electricity. Over $21 billion worth of power plants have stalled due to natural gas shortfall, Scindia said. Besides seeking untied gas currently produced or likely to be produced in future by companies like State-owned ONGC and GSPC, Scindia wants fertiliser plants to spare some gas after fulfilling the requirement for producing urea.
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India in talks with Pak to export natural gas via pipeline
To export natural gas to Pakistan through a pipeline from its Punjab state, India is in talks with the neighbouring country to help it overcome crippling energy shortage. India's State gas utility GAIL has proposed to lay a 110-km pipeline from Jalandhar to Wagah border via Amritsar to supply natural gas to Pakistan, GAIL Chairman and Managing Director BC Tripathi has said.
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India reduces oil imports by half from Iran
India's imports of crude oil from Iran more than halved in June from a year ago as refiner Essar Oil became the only remaining Indian client of the sanctions hit country. Tanker data showed that India's imports for June fell about 60 per cent on an annual basis, pointing to imports from Iran's top four customers-China, Japan, India and South Korea of around 8,60,000 barrels per day for the month down more than a third on the year.
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Gorgon gas import price is too high: Gail
India's biggest gas marketer Gail India said the long-term gas import contract with Australia's Gorgon project for about $15.67 per unit price is too high and does not reflect market reality, prompting the state firm to ask the importer, Petronet LNG (PLL), to renegotiate the contract. Gail's statement follows demands from some energy firms for import-parity price for domestically produced natural gas. These firms criticised the recently approved pricing formula propounded by the the Rangarajan
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GAIL may drop TN pipeline project: Gail
GAIL (India) may abandon the Tamil Nadu portion of the Kochi-Koottanad-Bangalore-Mangalore natural gas pipeline project if no decisions are taken by the State Government within a month. Gail Chairman BC Tripathi said that the matter was discussed at the Board meeting. We will wait for one more month and then the Board will take a call on abandoning the project said Tripathi.
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Ennore Port in TN gets 11 bids to build new terminal
For building a Rs 1,270 crore container loading facility the Ennore Port in Tamil Nadu received 11 initial bids from private groups. The deadline for submitting the bids ended on July 25. Ennore Port is IndiaĆās only Union government-controlled port that is run as a company; the others operate as trusts. The new terminal will have a capacity to load 1.4 million standard containers a year from a berth length of 730 metre.
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Kolkata port wins best container port award
Among all major ports in India, Kolkata Port Trust (KoPT) has been adjudged as the 'Container Handling Port of the Year,' at the 5th South East Cargo & Logistics Awards 2013 ceremony. The recognition for KoPT is for its excellence in container handling in 2012-13. The award was received by I Jeyakumar, Deputy Chairman, KoPT in Chennai. After receiving the award, KoPT chairman RPS Kahlon said that the port has been holding third position in respect to container traffic among the 12 major ports in
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DCI to deploy dredgers to Ennore port
The Dredging Corporation of India (DCI) was scheduled to commission the second of its three 5,500 cubic metre Trailer Suction Hopper Dredgers (TSHDs) at Chennai port on July 26. The dredger will then be deployed for projects at Ennore port, DCI Chairman-cum-Managing Director DK Mohanty said on July 5. The first dredger is already at Ennore and now the two 5,500 cubic metre TSHDs will be in operation at port to complete the dredging by the end of October.