The steep decline in the value of Indian currency raised the price (in rupee terms) of crude oil imported by India. Further, global factors like higher demand, low OPEC spare capacity and improved economic outlook for 2013 raised the price of crude oil in dollar terms. For example, the Brent crude oil futures rose to a two-year high of $110.51 a barrel recently. Brent for sweet grad
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OMCs may raise petrol, diesel prices
The continuing depreciation of rupee and the rise in global crude oil price may prompt state-run oil marketing companies (OMCs) to raise diesel and petrol price, reports indicate. While the global crude price rose to 108.5 per barrel recently, the Indian rupee rose up to 62 a dollar in recent session. In rupee terms, the crude price increased to Rs 6,68
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ISPRL setting up 12.5 mn t oil storage capacity
Indian Strategic Petroleum Reserves (ISPRL) is setting up 12.5 million tonne strategic crude oil storage capacity in Bikaner, Rajkot, Chandikhol and Padur. This is part of the phase-II project, Minister of State for Petroleum & Natural Gas Panabaaka Lakshmi informed the Parliament. In the first phase, ISPRL is setting up storage facilities of 5.
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Govt may help firms insuring oil import from Iran
Media reports indicate that the union finance ministry plans to cover half of a proposed Rs 40 billion fund for underwriting the import of crude oil from Iran. It may be recalled that the union oil ministry and local insurers decided to contribute Rs 10 billion each to the proposed fund
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State-run oil firms pay Rs 150 bn as subsidy for June quarter
The three state-run oil companies have paid Rs 15,000 crore as subsidy to public sector oil marketing companies (OMCs) for the Apr-Jun 2013 quarter. Of the Rs 15,000 crore, Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) paid around Rs 12,300 crore, Oil India Rs 2,000 crore, and GAIL Rs 700 crore. It may be recalled that of the total under-recovery incurred by state-run OMCs, 40 percent is shared by the gov
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Govt conducts feasibility study for storage project
The Minister of State for Petroleum & Natural Gas Panabaaka Lakshmi informed the Rajya Sabha in a written reply that in order to further increase the Strategic crude oil storage capacity, the government, through Indian Strategic Petroleum reserves (ISPRL), has undertaken a detailed feasibility study for construction of additional 12.5 Million Metric Tonne (mn mt) of crude oil storages in Phase-II a
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IGL to provide PNG connection to Delhi
Indraprastha Gas (IGL) is committed to providing piped natural gas or PNG connections to all technically feasible areas of Delhi, Union Petroleum Minister Veerappa Moily informed members of Lok Sabha. Moily said this while replying to a specific query on Kapashera village of Delhi. He said IGL's pipeline network laying work was in progress near Samalkha crossing, two kilom
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MRPL to procure crude oil from ONGC
Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals (MRPL) would procure Rs 38,500 crore worth of crude oil from Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) for a five-year period, according to an agreement signed between the firms recently. MRPL is a subsidiary of ONGC. ONGC would supply Mumbai High crude from JNPT and offshore platform to MRPL. ONGC supplies about 11-12 per cent
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IOC to import less oil from Iran
Petroleum Minister M Veerappa Moily informed in Rajya Sabha that Indian Oil Corp (IOC) agreed to import 1.2 million tonne crude oil from Iran in 2013-14 compared to 1.566 million tonne in the previous year. This represents a fall of over 23 per cent in crude oil import by IOC from the Persian Gulf nation. During April-June 2013, the firm imported 0.577 million tonne of oil from Iran. It may be noted that IOC is India's third
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OMCs raise petrol, diesel prices
Public sector oil marketing companies (OMCs) hiked petrol prices by 70 paise per litre and diesel by 50 paise considering the increase in the international crude oil prices. But pump prices will vary from city to city depending on state and local taxes. Oil firms pointed out that the international price of petrol rose from $117.19 per barrel to $120.05 per barrel. The rupee-dollar exchange rate however, has marginally appr