Rajiv Agarwal, MD and CEO of Essar Port is quoted as saying that the debt level of the company (Rs 5,700 crore) was reasonable for the size of the firm. The firm has an equity of about Rs 2,800 crore and a debt of about 5,800 crore. The company is making efforts to reduce the interest cost, he is quoted as saying in a media
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Power ministry expresses views on gas price hike
According to source-based information, union power ministry opined that base price of domestic natural gas beyond $5 per mmBtu is unviable for power sector. The ministry is learnt to have said this in a note to the
Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA), which would decide on whether to raise the price of domestically produced gas in line with the reco
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Essar Ports expects to raise capacity to 181 mn t
Agency reports indicate that the cargo handling capacity of Essar Ports may rise from the present 104 million tonne (mn t) per annum to 181 mn t by
2015-16, a growth of 74 percent. The company plans to add 23 mn t capacity in its portfolio by modernising three existing iron ore berths at Visakhapatnam port
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Govt must address huge turnaround time of vessels
A study by the industry body Assocham points out that the government must address the issue of the huge turnaround time at ports in India. The huge turnaround time is cited as one of the biggest handicaps logistics service providers have to deal with, the study finds. It also highlights that the development of port infrastructure in India is not on par with other ports across the
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Essar Ports suffers from high interest cost
High interest cost is affecting the profitability of Essar Ports, which runs Vadinar and Hazira ports in Gujarat. The company faces high interest cost of around 12-14 percent which is eroding its profit. Port operators including Essar have appealed to the shipping ministry to raise the bar on external commercial borrowings (ECBs) from the current 25
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Ministry gets request from OIL for gas revision
In order to meet the increasing cost of production and also to enable the proposed capital investment of over Rs 19,000 crore in the 12th Five Year Plan period (2012-17), Oil India (OIL) asked the union oil ministry to raise natural gas price. In a letter to the union oil ministry, the firm said its cost of production of natural gas from the nominated fields was increasing on sustained
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Cairn may not get relinquished blocks on nomination basis
The Directorate General of Hydrocarbons (DGH) opined that Cairn India can repossess the almost 8,000 square kilometre of area in its prolific Rajasthan block
only by participating in future NELP or Open Acreage Licensing Policy (OPAL) bidding. It may be recalled that Cairn India requested the government to return the area that it previously relinquished as it did not find oil or
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To maintain output, Cairn India mulls 48 more wells
In order to maintain the current peak production level, Cairn India plans to drill 48 wells at a cost of less than $100 million on the Mangala oilfield in its Rajasthan block. Mangala is the biggest among the 26 oil and gas discoveries Cairn has made in the Barmer basin block in Rajasthan
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OMCs fail to avoid demurrage cost
A Parliamentary Standing committee strongly felt that the huge demurrage cost of about Rs 665 crore incurred by state-run oil marketing companies (OMCs) between 2009 and 2012 was avoidable and not due to uncontrollable factors. Owing to their failure to have requisite infrastructure, the three OMCs – IOC, HPC and BPCL – paid Rs 665 crore in this period to domestic ports, the com
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Subdued demand may hit margins of steel firms
Owing to subdued demand for steel, earnings of companies in the sector may remain under pressure despite decline in the cost of coking coal and iron ore, the two key raw materials. Some analysts feel that earnings of steel firms may not improve in the next quarter and may recover only from the second half of 2012-13 as demand revives once cons