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
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CCI chief warns of cascading effect from gas price hike
President of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), S Gopalakrishnan said the government’s move to almost double gas prices with effect from April 2014 will have a “cascading effect” on power tariffs. He said this while addressing a press conference. He disfavoured the dollar pricing of domestically produced natural gas by saying the following, “I do not believe that the price of gas (produced in India) ought to be se
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Govt expects new pricing formula to boost gas output
According to an internal note prepared by the union petroleum ministry, the new gas pricing formula approved by the cabinet would enable exploration and production from around 3 tn cf (trillion cubic feet) of gas reserves. This would lead to increase in domestic supply of natural gas, the note points out. The note pointed out that investment in exploration and development plan declined in the last few y
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Deepest oil well drilled by ONGC at KG basin
According to a company statement, ONGC drilled the well 1-D-1 in a block at Krishna Godavari basin. This is the deepest well drilled by the firm at a water depth of 10,411 feet (3,174 meters). The well was drilled at the block KG-DWN-2005/1. The state-owned firm drilled over 100 deepwater wells since 2004. A large number of these wells are in water depth beyond 5,000 feet in environmentally and logistically difficult areas of east and west coast, ranging from