A complaint filed by an Assam-based civil and transport contractor alleging anti-competitive practices by Oil and Natural Gas Corporation of India (ONGC) was rejected by the Competition Commission of India (CCI). The CCI, in its order, said the complainant did not submit any evidence of bid rigging with respect to tenders floated by ONGC for hiring hydraulic cranes. The complaint pertains to ONGC notice, issued in December 2012, inviting bids under two bids system from
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Under-recovery set to rise to Rs 1.5 trillion
According to government sources, under-recovery on the sale of fuel products by state-run oil marketing companies (OMCs) at subsidised price may be around Rs 125,000 crore and Rs 150,000 crore in 2013-14. This estimate is sharply higher than the government's earlier estimate of Rs 80,000 crore because of a considerable depreciation of rupee and the marginal rise
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IMG to shortlist bankers to manage stake sale in IOC
The inter-ministerial group (IMG), headed by Disinvestment Secretary Ravi Mathur, would shortlist five merchant bankers for managing the 10 per cent government stake sale in Indian Oil Corporation (IOC). The five merchant bankers would be shortlisted from among 17 banks, who would make presentations to the IMG
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Govt sticks to formula rather than any fixed price
Even as the union cabinet recently approved the hike in domestic natural gas price to $8.4 million metric British thermal unit (mmbtu) from April 2014, the government does not stick to any fixed price, some media reports indicate. According to these reports, the government has left the market condition to fix the price based on the formula proposed by the Rangarajan committee
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Department suggests cap on gas pricing under new regime
The department of expenditure of the union finance ministry suggested the oil ministry to fix a ceiling price for domestic natural gas under the Rangarajan formula. On June 27, the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs cleared the adoption of the Rangarajan pricing formula for domestic natural gas from April 2014. But while adopting this formula, the expenditure department suggested that gas producers should not be allow
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GAIL plant does not receive gas from KG-D6
Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) plants of GAIL has reportedly stopped receiving natural gas from Reliance Industries' KG-D6 block because of falling output in the area. Supply to the plant was stopped because gas output at KG-D6 declined to just over 14 mmscmd which is enough to met the requirement of fertiliser plants. Fertiliser plants are given top priority in gas supplies
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India to cooperate with Iraq on various sectors
At a bilateral meeting with the leaders of Iraqi government, Union oil Minister M Veerappa Moily offered the participation of Indian companies with expertise in areas such as refineries, petrochemicals and fertilisers in various projects in the gulf nation. He recently visited Iraq to attend the 17th meeting of the India-Iraq Joint
Commission. Moily stressed on the need to strengthen the relationship between the two countries given that Iraq is the s
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OIL produced 3.7 mn t of crude oil in FY13
State-run oil and gas explorer Oil India (OIL) could produce only 3.701 million tonne of crude oil during 2012-13 compared to 3.884 million tonne in 2011-12 because of hostile work environment in Assam. The company was targeted to explore 3.95 million tonne in 2012-13, but it could not and the figure was this year's target. OIL posted a gross income of Rs 11,456.32 crore
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CBM output set to rise in India
In the next two years, about 6.5 million standard cubic meters per day of coal bed methane (CBM) could be produced by Essar Oil and Reliance Industries from their respective blocks. This output is enough to generate about 1,573 mw of power, reports indicate. 1 mmscmd gas can generate 242 mw power, reports indicate
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Crude tanker segment may not perform well
Analysts expect that the crude tanker segment of the shipping industry may not perform well in the near future because of the sharp decline in the import of crude oil by one of the largest consumer of energy, the USA. The US has become self-sufficient for crude, because of its the boom in the shale oil industry in the country. US imports of crude oil declined significantly by almost 4 to 4.5 million barrels a day. That is not being mad