Union Petroleum Minister Veerappa Moily said he wants to reduce the amount of crude oil imported in the country 50 percent by 2020, 75 percent by 2025. By 2030, he wants India to achieve self-sufficiency and energy independence, Moily said while addressing the International Energy Forum conference held recently
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Union finance ministry will decide on the proposal of petroleum ministry to use Rs 1,000 crore from the the Oil Industry Development Board (OIDB) fund for setting up a proposed insurance fund. The oil ministry proposed to set up a fund to provide insurance to local refining companies that use Iranian crude oil as re-insurance companies from West
Minister alleges opposition of lobbies for proposed gas pricing
Import lobby is opposing the proposal to link the domestic price of natural gas to the market price and thereby liberalise the pricing of the fuel, Petroleum minister M Veerappa Moily said recently. However, he said he was clueless about whether the opposition is from the crude oil import lobby or the liquid gas import lobby
India to have over 50 mn t LNG re-gassification capacity
Union Oil Minister M Veerappa Moily informed that India may have LNG re-gasification capacity of over 50 million tonne per annum by 2016-17 with a supply of 198 million standard cubic meters per day. Currently, India has 18.6 mn t of re-gasification capacity - 10 mn t terminal at Dahej and 3.6 mn t plant at Hazira in Gujarat and 5 mn t terminal at Dabhol in Maharashtra
Steel firms to benefit from rupee depreciation
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
BPCL to export naptha
Bharat Petroleum Corp (BPCL) intends to export 35,000 tonne of low aromatic naphtha for July 5-8 loading from Kochi. For this purpose, the state-run oil marketing company (OMC) has issued tender and invited bids from traders till June 11. Meanwhile, the firm is in the process of importing gasoline
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Rupee falls to one-year low against dollar
At a recent trading session on the Interbank Foreign Exchange market, the Indian rupee depreciated to a one-year low of 56.58 against the dollar. The decline in rupee against the dollar is attributed to the demand for the greenback from importers. Also, the concerns highlighted by Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Gove
GAIL India to operate LNG carriers
GAIL (India) plans to have seven or eight liquefied natural gas (LNG) in the next three to four years on a long-term charter or ownership basis in order to ferry the fuel to India from abroad. From 2017, the company plans to enter the LNG shipping business as it would enable the firm transport the fuel it agreed to buy from the USA
Ministry may not agree to reduce import duty on coal
It seems the power ministry may not succeed in convincing the finance ministry to reduce import duty on all forms of coal used in power plants to mitigate the impact of rising cost of imported coal on power sector. Increase in the cost of imported coal has threatened the viability of several power generation projects in the
Power plants yet to lift coal from Navlakhi port
Power plants in the states of Rajasthan, Gujarat, Punjab and Madhya Pradesh who imported coal from Navlakhi port in Gujarat are having an issue of vacating the cargo lying in the port. With the Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB) serving a closure notice to the port for violation of envir