Anil Agarwal, Chairman of Vedanta Group told a leading media that the government's decision to hike the price of domestic natural gas would boost growth the sector. On June 27, the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs cleared the pricing of all domestic gas through Rangarajan formula from April 1, 2014. The price of gas as per the formula is likely to be about $8.4 per million British thermal unit as opposed to $4.2 currently
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OMCs to buy dollar from state-run banks
In order to contain volatility in rupee exchange rate, state-run oil marketing companies (OMCs) agreed to buy dollars for importing crude oil from a single public sector bank. This follows the direction by Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to these companies to use a special window for buying dollars
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IOC eyes stake in Canadian shale asset
Indian Oil Corp (IOC) may buy 10 percent stake in Canadian shale gas assets from Malaysia's Petronas, reports indicate. Both the firms are said to be holding discussion on this matter. It is learnt that both the firms are yet to work out the terms of a potential deal. Last year, state-run Petronas acquired Canada's Progress Energy Resources Corp in a C$5.2 billion ($4.92 billion) deal that gave it shale gas properties in north
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RBI may take steps to arrest rupee weakness
Some market analysts expect Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to take steps to arrest further depreciation of rupee against the dollar. In order to meet the demand for dollar to import crude oil by oil marketing companies (OMCs), RBI may look at opening a special window from where these firms could buy dollars. A large part of demand for dollar comes from OMCs and if this demand is eliminated from the m
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RINL JV to revisit Rs 2 bn ferroy alloy project
A joint venture company set up by Rashritya Ispat Nigam (RINL) and MOIL in July, 2007 is revisiting the Rs 200-crore ferro alloy plant project and plans to set it up at an alternative location in Vizag, agency reports indicate. RINL-MOIL Ferro Alloys Pvt Ltd, in which both firms have equal stake, was formed to set up the plant at Vizianagaram in Andhra Pradesh in 2007. However, the project was found to be unviable at this
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India keen to source LNG from Iraq
Union minister M Veerappa Moily held discussion with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki on partnership between both the countries on oil and gas sector. Moily visited Baghdad to attend a two-day meeting of the India-Iraq Joint Commission. According to a government statement, India will be interested in natural gas-based projects and importing liquefied natural gas (LNG) from Iraq
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S&P expects improvement in EBITDA of ONGC
Andrew Wong, Credit Analyst at Standard & Poor's expects ONGC's EBITDA to improve by at least $2.0 billion each year on average from fiscal 2014-15 once India implements natural gas price increase. Therefore, the state-run energy explorer may strengthen its cash flow and profitability from the next fiscal year, exceeding the earlier expectations, he
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Ministry trying to rope in firm for TAPI project
Union petroleum ministry continues to look out for a global company that can lead a consortium for implementing the 1,680-km TAPI pipeline project. The proposed pipeline will start from the South Yolotan-Osman field in Turkmenistan, passing through the troubled Herat, Helmand and Kandahar regions in Afghanistan via Quetta and Multan in Pakistan and finally ending at Fazilka (Punjab) in
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Ministry note justifies gas price hike
An internal note circulated by the petroleum & natural gas ministry has justified the recent decision of the union cabinet to almost double the domestic natural gas price to $8.4 per unit. The note argued that the current price of $4.2 was not viable for “sustenance of the domestic production of gas and all the operators are demanding an increase in price
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Price of GAIL’s gas import to depend on Henry Hub
The price of the shale gas that would be imported by state-run gas transportation firm GAIL India from the US starting 2016-17 would depend on Henry Hub prices to which shale gas price is linked. This price may most probably be around $10-11/mmBtu, media reports indicate. It may be recalled that GAIL India entered into an agreement with Cheniere Energy Partners to import 3.5 million tonne per annum (mn tpa) of LNG from the US s