The proposal to give power plants the same priority as fertiliser plants for supply of domestic natural gas would be discussed in an upcoming meeting of the Empowered group of ministers (EGoM). If the EGoM accords the same priority, existing and stranded plants would get natural gas to generate about 2,200 mw power
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GGL, VMC form JV for city gas distribution
GAIL Gas (GGL) and Vadodara Municipal Corporation (VMC) formed a join venture company which aims to double the number of piped natural gas (PNG) connections in the city in four years. The civic body and the gas distribution firm finalised the joint venture agreement recently and signed a share
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ADB to form company for TAPI project
By end-September 2013, the four nations involved in the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) pipeline project agreed to form a company for implementing this purpose. All the four nations agreed to this at a recent meeting of the Steering Committee on the TAPI gas pipeline project in Ashgabat. The meeting was attended by Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Veerappa Moily, Rashid Meredov, Depu
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Govt sticks to formula rather than any fixed price
Even as the union cabinet recently approved the hike in domestic natural gas price to $8.4 million metric British thermal unit (mmbtu) from April 2014, the government does not stick to any fixed price, some media reports indicate. According to these reports, the government has left the market condition to fix the price based on the formula proposed by the Rangarajan committee
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Department suggests cap on gas pricing under new regime
The department of expenditure of the union finance ministry suggested the oil ministry to fix a ceiling price for domestic natural gas under the Rangarajan formula. On June 27, the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs cleared the adoption of the Rangarajan pricing formula for domestic natural gas from April 2014. But while adopting this formula, the expenditure department suggested that gas producers should not be allow
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GAIL plant does not receive gas from KG-D6
Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) plants of GAIL has reportedly stopped receiving natural gas from Reliance Industries' KG-D6 block because of falling output in the area. Supply to the plant was stopped because gas output at KG-D6 declined to just over 14 mmscmd which is enough to met the requirement of fertiliser plants. Fertiliser plants are given top priority in gas supplies
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India to cooperate with Iraq on various sectors
At a bilateral meeting with the leaders of Iraqi government, Union oil Minister M Veerappa Moily offered the participation of Indian companies with expertise in areas such as refineries, petrochemicals and fertilisers in various projects in the gulf nation. He recently visited Iraq to attend the 17th meeting of the India-Iraq Joint
Commission. Moily stressed on the need to strengthen the relationship between the two countries given that Iraq is the s
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CBM output set to rise in India
In the next two years, about 6.5 million standard cubic meters per day of coal bed methane (CBM) could be produced by Essar Oil and Reliance Industries from their respective blocks. This output is enough to generate about 1,573 mw of power, reports indicate. 1 mmscmd gas can generate 242 mw power, reports indicate
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Power producers lobby for diversion of gas
Power developers who run natural gas-based power plants are lobbying for the diversion of gas supply from the fertiliser sector and lowering of the plant capacity for recovery of fixed costs and assured return on equity. Amish Shah of Credit Suisse Research said this in a recent report. Owing to shortage of gas supply, power plants of Lanco, GMR, GVK, Essar, NTPC, RGPPL, Torrent, VBC Group — with a total capacity of 9,861 mw — are funct
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Petronet considering GAIL proposal to renegotiate deal
Petronet LNG is said to be considering the proposal to renegotiate the Sale Purchase Agreement for natural gas it decided to source from Gorgon in Australia. GAIL India recently suggested Petronet to renegotiate the contract the latter entered into in August 2009 with Australia on grounds that the scenario changed worldwide since then