Steel companies are cheering the weakening of the Indian currency against the dollar as it would make export of steel products more competitive and discourage local consumers from resorting to import. Local steel consumers may find imports costlier because of the depreciation in rupee and this may benefit Indian steel companies
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Kelkar panel may submit report by Sept
Kelkar committee is likely to submit its report
on the natural gas pricing formula to the government by September 2013, media reports indicate. Under the Chairmanship of Vijay Kelkar, a committee was formed by the union oil Minister Veerappa Moily in March 2013 to suggest steps for enhancing domestic oil and gas production. Later, its scope was expanded to sugg
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CCI probes cartelisation in petrol pricing
Anti-trust watchdog Competition Commission of India (CCI) has reportedly started probing the alleged cartelisation in the price of petrol in the domestic market by state-run oil marketing companies (OMCs). Suspicion of cartelisation in petrol pricing arose as state-run OMCs usually reduce or hike price of the fuel in unison. The Director General, the investigation arm of the CCI is investigating the matter
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World steel output grows 1.2% in April
Global steel production grew 1.2 per cent in April 2013 to 132.11 million tonne (mn t) compared to 130.50 mn t in the corresponding month of previous year, data from the World Steel Association shows. It is noteworthy that nearly half of the global production has come from China at 65.65 mn t during the month. Steel output in the country grew 6.8 per cent over the same month last year, data the association shows
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Rating agencies comment of Tata Steel’s writedown
According to analysts in India Ratings, Tata Steel's investment in its European unit has not delivered returns according to the management's expectation. This prompted the firm to writedown $1.6 billion asset in its European unit, Rakesh Valecha, Senior Director at India Ratings feels. Tata Steel attributed the writedown to "weak economic and market conditions" in Europe and it expects this situation to continue "over the near- and medi
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Consumers prefer local gas due to high cost of imported gas
Even as several power and fertiliser plants are suffering from insufficient availability of natural gas, they are averse to buy imported gas because of its unacceptably high price. Natural gas-based power producers want a larger share of the domestically-produced cheaper gas, which is priced between $4.2 (RIL's D6 gas) and $5.73 per unit, which is far less than the price of imported gas in the s
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Ore output in Odisha may rise in FY14
A news agency reported that Odisha may produce around 65 million tonne (mn t) of iron ore in 2013-14, which is about 5 percent more than the 62 mn t produced in the previous financial year. It may be noted that Odisha is the biggest producer of iron ore in the country. The state government expect higher ore production after it allowed miners in the two high
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NMDC decides ore price based on local mkt condition
According to the pricing policy being followed by NMDC, the prices of various products of the mines of NMDC are kept in sync with the prevailing domestic iron ore prices in other sectors. NMDC is fixing its domestic prices keeping in view prevailing iron ore prices in other sectors and demand supply scenario for its iron ore. Union Minister of Steel, Beni
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Pig iron makers try to overcome muted local demand
Pig iron producers in India are trying to reduce manufacturing cost and diversify their sales to foreign markets amidst muted demand from the domestic steel sector. In order to reduce production cost, some units are said to be using more iron ore fines than lumps. Further, firms like Sesa Goa are now producing according to the need only
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AP govt to add 4 gw generation capacity to meet demand
By the end of the financial year 2013-14, the Andhra Pradesh government aims to add at least 4,000 mw of power production capacity in order to meet the shortage of electricity. The state government's power generation firm AP Genco is said to be in the advanced stage of commissioning at least three projects, including two units