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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Petronet plans to operationalise phase I of terminal project by Aug
According to media reports, Petronet LNG may operationalise its Phase-I of the natural gas terminal at Kochi by the end of August 2013. The company, which initially planned to commission the project during March 2013, faced several roadblocks.
Work on the project in the southern end of Vypin island
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Cabinet to decide on Rs 372 bn refinery project
Media reports indicate that the union cabinet would soon decide on clearing the Rs 37,230 crore refinery project at Barmer, Rajasthan. It is learnt that the central government prepared a note for the cabinet on this project, which is promoted by the state-run Hindustan Petroleum Corporation (
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Foreign firms eye refinery, LNG projects in India
According to media reports, British Gas and British Petroleum are interested to set up oil refineries and LNG terminals in India. It may be noted that recently, government allowed 100 per cent FDI in oil refineries throÂugh the automatic rouÂte and this removes the need for a foreign company to tie-up w
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GAIL may import LNG at a landed cost of $10.5 per unit
According to sources from union oil ministry, the landed cost of the liquefied natural gas (LNG) to be sourced by the state-owned gas utility GAIL India from the US would be around $10.5 per mmBtu, based on the current Henry Hub price. Gas at US Henry, LA is currently traded at around $3.78 er mmBtu. In December 2011, GAIL entered into a pact with Houston-based Cheniere's Sabine Pass LNG terminal in w
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BPCL to deploy Rs 9 bn more on Kochi project
Prasad K Panicker, Executive Director of Bharat Petroleum Corporation (BPCL) Kochi Refinery informed that the firm would spend Rs 900 crore on a new LPG pipeline project and storage capacity project. While the state-run oil refiner would invest Rs 600 crore to set up a 229-km pipeline in Kochi Refinery, it would spend another Rs 300 crore at its Irumpanam unit to raise
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Minister asks firms to invest in oil and gas sector
The Petroleum Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas M Veerappa Moily has emphasised the need for greater investment in the oil and gas sector. He said this while addressing an Assocham Seminar on Indian Economy in the context of global energy scenario. The minister said the government was committed to deal with the energy security issues. It is in this context that the gas pricing formula was recently revised based on th
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AP govt takes steps to boost oil and gas sector
Andhra Pradesh government has taken a series of initiatives to promote oil and gas projects in the state. For example, the state government is keen to expedite an LNG re-gassification terminal project – a floating one with a capacity of 3.5 mn tpa in Kakinada, which is to be upgraded to 5 mn tpa. AP Gas Distribution Corporation Limited (a joint venture of Gail Gas and AP Gas Infrastructure Corporation) and
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RIL proposes $16-bn investment if pricing regime is favourable
An investment of $16 billion is proposed by Reliance Industries (RIL) on exploration and production of oil and gas in its fields in the next five years. The company expects to tap 3-4 trillion cubic feet (tcf) of gas through this investment. But the company feels that its investment would not be recoverable if the price calculated under the Rangarajan committee formula is