The decline in the supply of natural gas from Reliance Industries' (RIL) KG D6 basin to gas-based power plants may prompt these units to import costly
R-LNG to operate their facilities. Anticipating sufficient gas availability, power producers set up a substantial amount of gas-based power capacity in recent
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Import of natural gas to operate power plants
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Ministry examines proposal on pricing of KG D6 gas
Union petroleum ministry is examining the proposal of the Finance Ministry to ask Reliance Industries (RIL) to sell natural gas at lower rates ($4.2 a unit) for the supplies it still owes. In a recent letter to the petroleum ministry, the finance ministry suggested that the government must subject gas producers to closer regulation, especially on the
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Great Eastern to buy gas carrier
Great Eastern (GE) Shipping, which has a fleet size of 28 ships comprising 20 tankers and 8 dry bulk carriers, decided to buy a very large gas carrier of about 49,300 dry weight tonnage (73,800 cbm). The gas carrier, once bought, would become the 29th ship of the firm. GE Shipping Company entered into a cont
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Net profit of GAIL declines on lower gas volume
Net profit of GAIL India declined 28.7 per cent to Rs 808 crore during April-June quarter from Rs 1,134 crore in the year-ago period. The country's largest gas transmission and marketing company witnessed 16 per cent growth in sales to Rs 12,856 crore during the quarter. The state-run utility witnessed fall in net profit as it transported less gas and its LPG margins declined on dryin
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Govt to benefit from natural gas price hike
In a report, Goldman Sachs said the government would stand to gain Rs 14,900 crore by way of royalties and taxes from the incremental gas price accruing to state-owned producers ONGC and Oil India in 2014-15 fiscal. The report said, "We note about 65 percent of incremental gas revenue from a price hike would flow back to the central and state governments as royalties, VAT,
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RIL to ramp up gas output from $6.5 bn investment
By 2019-20, Reliance Industries (RIL) aims to ramp up natural gas production from its KG-D6 fields to 60 mmscmd and to achieve this the firm plans to invest $6.5 billion. Owing to water and sand ingress in some of the wells, gas output from the fields declined to around 14 mmscmd recently from a peak of 69.43 mmscmd in March 2010
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Govt may not give significant gas to power sector
An Empowered Group of Ministers (EGoM) may not give any significant natural gas to the fuel-starved power producing units in the country till domestic production rises in 2016-17. Over $21 billion power plants are stranded for want of fuel. The EGoM headed by Defence Minister AK Antony is to meet shortly to squeeze out some gas from current year output of 105 million standard cubic meters a day for the power plants.
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Additional gas to be made available by ONGC, GSPC
ONGC and GSPC would be able to produce about 4-5 mmscmd of additional natural from their fields in 2013-14. A similar additional volume may be available in the next fiscal and a further 2 mmscmd from GSPC in 2015-16. This additional output will have to make up for fall in KG-D6 this fiscal and the next as also meet 3.8 mmscmd need of 5 newly converted fertiliser plants for whom allocation had previously been approved by the cabinet and
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Panel suggests govt to conduct due diligence
A Parliamentary panel report shows that the government has not conducted any due diligence before clearing the proposal to hike domestic natural gas price in line with the Rangarajan committee recommendation. According to the report, submitted by the parliamentary standing committee on finance,
the
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GAIL to await govt decision on pipeline project
BC Tripathi, Chairman of GAIL (India) said the firm would wait one month for the Tamil Nadu government to take a decision on the company's natural gas pipeline project which passes through the state. GAIL is implementing an ambitous Kochi-Koottanad-Bangalore-Mangalore natural gas pipeline project and it passes through seven districts in Tamil Nadu — Coimbatore, Tirupur, Erode, Namakkal, Sale