Reports suggest that the share of import in total natural gas consumption in the country may rise from the current level of 40 percent as domestic production fails to keep pace with growth in demand. Recently, the country's biggest liquid gas importer Petronet LNG has notched up a world record by offloading its 1,000th shipload at its Dahej terminal. This is the first for a
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Experts suggest import parity pricing for gas
Experts suggest government to introduce import parity pricing for natural gas as it is a cleaner fuel and leaves a far smaller environmental footprint. Presently, crude oil produced in the country is given import parity price. This is however denied for gas. If the same well produces oil and gas, then the former receives impor
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Experts suggest import parity pricing for gas
Experts suggest government to introduce import parity pricing for natural gas as it is a cleaner fuel and leaves a far smaller environmental footprint. Presently, crude oil produced in the country is given import parity price. This is however denied for gas. If the same well produces oil and gas, then the former receives impor
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CAG complains against RIL to oil ministry
Reports indicate that the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) wrote to the union petroleum minister M Veerappa Moily that Reliance Industries (RIL) was not cooperating with the audit of the spending on the flagging KG-D6 fields. It is learnt that the company declined to share the documents related to its legal case against the oil mini
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Steel Exchange gets gas supply from ONGC
Steel Exchange India is learnt to be getting gas from the ONGC's isolated fields in the KG Basin under direct marketing. The upstream oil major is said to be supplying the gas at the rate of 10,000 standard cubic metre per day. The fist of these fields at Vygreswaram in East Godavari dist
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Revenue share contracts may raise risk for explorers
Deepak Mahurkar, leader, oil and gas, PricewaterhouseCoopers opined that a move towards revenue-sharing mechanism in exploration contracts exposes investors to more risks of investments, and that may dissuade large oil companies from India. It may be noted that the union Finance Minister P Chidambaram announced in his budget speech that a new
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Share of imported gas
Reports suggest that the share of import in total natural gas consumption in the country may rise from the current level of 40 per cent as domestic production fails to keep pace with growth in demand. Recently, Petronet LNG has notched up a world record by
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Share of imported gas
Reports suggest that the share of import in total natural gas consumption in the country may rise from the current level of 40 per cent as domestic production fails to keep pace with growth in demand. Recently, Petronet LNG has notched up a world record by
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Govt reviews pricing system for natural gas
In order to encourage exploration and development activities by players in the oil and gas sector, the government is reviewing the system of pricing natural gas under the production sharing contract (PSC), Economic Survey 2012-13 said. The pricing system would be reviewed in order to clarify the extent to which producers will get the free
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RIL, BP bank on $5 bn investment to reverse fall in output
According to a joint statement from Reliance Industries (RIL) and BP, their jointly proposed $5 billion investment includes testing of a new layer of natural gas under the rapidly depleting fields in the KG-D6 fields. Both the firms agreed to invest jointly of $5 billion in the next few years to boost natural gas output in the flagging Krishna Godavari (KG) D6 basin gradually from 201