The Empowered Group of Ministers (EGoM) would soon discuss the note circulated by the petroleum ministry on allocation of natural gas. According to the note, the petroleum ministry wants to discontinue the practice of giving priority to urea
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Cairn finds exploration not feasible in entire KG block
In a letter to the union oil ministry, Cairn India said a quarter of its KG basin block area falling on both sides of "no go area" is operationally not feasible and offered to surrender it to the government. For proper and effective exploration, only 40 per cent of the original contract area of KG-OSN-2009/3 block is feasible, it wrote
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Gujarat Gas vulnerable to tariff control by PNGRB
Gujarat Gas received authorization from the Petroleum and Natural Gas Regulatory Board (PNGRB) for the city gas distribution areas of Surat, Bharuch and Ankleshwar. The company filed tariff application with PNGRB for its transmission pipeline. However, owing to high ROE (return on equity) of over 30 percent, the company is vulnerable to tariff reduction from PNGRB, as was ordered for Indraprastha Gas. This is an operational performance risk, poin
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RIL asked to clarify certain things in revised plan
Minister of State for Petroleum & Natural Gas Panabaaka Lakshmi informed Rajya Sabha that the government sought clarifications from Reliance Industries (RIL) on the revised field development plan (RFDP). It may be noted that the company submitted RFDP for D1 & D3 fields, the main gas producing fields in the eastern offshore KG-D6 block, with downward revision in reserves
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Cairn Energy picks up stake in two Irish oil blocks
According to a media release, Cairn Energy, which is headquartered at Edinburgh, picked up 38 per cent equity in Porcupine Basin pair Frontier Exploration Licence (FEL) 2/04 and FEL 4/08, two Irish blocks, in a cost-and-carry deal. The company also bought stake in six adjacent licencing option blocks. The acreage covers an area of 2,75
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Imperial to develop shale gas field with a partner
Imperial Energy, which identified the Bazhenov shale formation in its oil and gas block in the Tomsk region of Western Siberia, Russian Federation, plans to develop it with the help of a global energy company. The company, which was acquired by ONGC Videsh in 2009, plans to induct an equity partner to develop the area, which is said to have the worldĆās single biggest reser
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Officials to discuss gas pipeline project
The extension of Iran-Pakistan natural gas pipeline to India would be discussed by the officials of the Indian and the Iranian governments, media reports suggest. It may be noted that Iran laid 900 km of the 1,600-km pipeline on its soil and both Iranian and Pakistani firms have undertaken the construction of the remaining part in Pakistan
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DGH calls for review of DoC for RIL’s block
Media reports suggest that the Directorate General of Hydrocarbons (DGH) asked the union oil ministry to convene a meeting of the Management Committee (MC) to review the Declaration of Commerciality (DoC) for D-35 block. The block, which is also named CY-DWN-2001/2 block, was discovered by Reliance Industries (RIL) in 2007
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Govt forms panel to decide on extension of lease
Press reports indicate that the union government formed an inter-departmental committee to extend petroleum leases in producing oil and gas blocks. Recently, the committee, chaired by oil ministry's additional secretary & financial adviser (AS&FA) SC Khuntia, held its first meeting. However, the committee did not discuss any particular case because of absence of a key member, repo
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Cairn India may upgrade reserve estimate
Some analysts expect Cairn India to upgrade crude oil reserves in its prolific Rajasthan field in the next two-three quarters led by higher exploration and drilling activities. It may be noted that the government allowed the company to conduct additional exploration in place. The com