According to some estimate, government will have to bear an additional subsidy burden of Rs 28,800 crore if it implements the Rangarajan committee formula for pricing natural gas. The committee, set up under Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council Chairman Rangarajan, suggested a price formula which is the mean of the prod
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EAC clears Cairn’s plan to raise output
The Expert Appraisal Committee (EAC) under the union environment ministry gave conditional clearance to the plan of Cairn India to raise crude oil output capacity from its Mangala Processing Terminal in Rajasthan. The approval would enable Cairn India to raise oil production from 175,000 barrels per day (bpd) to 200,000 bpd and associated gas from 35 to 40 million stan
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CERC seeks review of LPG distribution norms
Union petroleum ministry received a request from the Ahmedabad based Consumer Education and Research Centre (CERC) to reconsider the decision to allow only one gas connection for one address. In a letter to the ministry, the CERC argued that the rule could hit the joint family culture in India as it will impose an additional financial burden of purchasing cook
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Oil ministry prefers amicable settlement of dispute
According to media reports, the union petroleum ministry prefers to weed out contentious issues with Reliance Industries (RIL) through negotiations rather than through legal means. It may be recalled that both the ministry and the company are locked in a dispute over recovering cost of developing KG-D6 basin from the revenue. RIL resorted to ar
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RIL produces 22.04 mmscmd gas from KG-D6
A report from the Directorate General of Hydrocarbon (DGH) shows that natural gas output from Reliance Industries' KG-D6 field stood at 22.04 million standard cubic meters per day in the week ended December 30, 2012. The output belongs to Dhirubhai-1 and 3 gas fields and MA oil and gas field in the KG-DWN-98/3 or KG-D6 bloc
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Experts urge oil firms to step up production
Experts and industry observers urge oil and gas companies to accelerate engineering and production activities in order to bridge the demand-supply gap in crude oil. The country depends on import for over 70 percent of its crude oil requirement and this puts huge pressure on India's import bill
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ONGC expects to produce 29.1 mn t oil in 2013-14
Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC), which expects to produce 27 million tonne of crude oil from its own fields and its share in joint ventures in 2012-13, plans to raise it to 29.1 million tonne in 2013-14. Of the 29.1 million tonne it expects to produce in 2013-14, 25.78 million tonne would come from its own field
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OIL in the process of drilling wells in KG basin
Reports suggest that by the middle of 2013, Oil India (OIL) may start work on drilling wells in the KG Basin. OIL is said to be in advance stage of mobilising the rigs to the exploration site and the work is expected to by June-end or early July 2013. As part of its plan, the firm would drill three shallow wells and three deep water wells at a total cost of aro
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Adani Gas under CCI scanner
The natural gas distribution service of Adani Gas (AGL) in Faridabad has come under the scanner of the Competition Commission of India after the latter received complaints from Faridabad Industries Association (FIA). FIA is an umbrella body of industrial units in Faridabad (Haryana). The competition commission recei
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J&K govt mulls ordinance to begin pipeline project
According to media reports, the Jammu and Kashmir government plans to introduce an ordinance for beginning work on the Bhatinda-Jammu-Srinagar gas pipeline project. It may be noted that the Gujarat State Petronet (GSPL), a subsidiary of Gujarat government, secured the