Kochi Port has various advantages in offering bunkering service to ocean-going ships such as high-quality bunkers, pipeline jetty loading facility for supply to ships at outer sea, a top official of HPCL said. The port offers competitive rates among South Asian ports, lowest tax rates for bunkers to foreign vessels besides offering easy access to ancillary mari
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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 Ăâ Coimbatore, Tirupur, Erode, Namakkal, Sale
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India in talks with Pak to export natural gas via pipeline
To export natural gas to Pakistan through a pipeline from its Punjab state, India is in talks with the neighbouring country to help it overcome crippling energy shortage. India's State gas utility GAIL has proposed to lay a 110-km pipeline from Jalandhar to Wagah border via Amritsar to supply natural gas to Pakistan, GAIL Chairman and Managing Director BC Tripathi has said.
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Petronet plans to operationalise phase I of terminal project by Aug
According to media reports, Petronet LNG may operationalise its Phase-I of the natural gas terminal at Kochi by the end of August 2013. The company, which initially planned to commission the project during March 2013, faced several roadblocks.
Work on the project in the southern end of Vypin island
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BPCL to deploy Rs 9 bn more on Kochi project
Prasad K Panicker, Executive Director of Bharat Petroleum Corporation (BPCL) Kochi Refinery informed that the firm would spend Rs 900 crore on a new LPG pipeline project and storage capacity project. While the state-run oil refiner would invest Rs 600 crore to set up a 229-km pipeline in Kochi Refinery, it would spend another Rs 300 crore at its Irumpanam unit to raise
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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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BPCL lays pipeline to supply ATF
State-run oil marketing company (OMC) BPCL laid 33 km underground pipeline from its Kochi refinery to the local airport to ensure smooth supply of aviation turbine fuel (ATF) at an investment of Rs 41 crore. Earlier, aircrafts in the airport used to get jet fuel from the refinery by tanker trucks. The company set up the pipeline considering that transport of ATF by pipeline is safer than tanker lorry delivery
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Ministry trying to rope in firm for TAPI project
Union petroleum ministry continues to look out for a global company that can lead a consortium for implementing the 1,680-km TAPI pipeline project. The proposed pipeline will start from the South Yolotan-Osman field in Turkmenistan, passing through the troubled Herat, Helmand and Kandahar regions in Afghanistan via Quetta and Multan in Pakistan and finally ending at Fazilka (Punjab) in
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IOC to lay pipeline for city gas distribution
Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) would lay pipeline from Rajpura in Punjab to Chandigarh to transport cooking gas to city homes. Besides Chandigarh, the pipeline would also be laid across Ambala in Haryana and the piped gas line will cater to Mohali, Panchkula, Baddi, Parwanoo and Nalagarh. The administration will facilitate in execution of the plan to ensure that general public does not face inconvenience during its
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GAIL gets interim relief from HC order
In an interim relief to Gas Authority of India (GAIL), the Madras High Court stayed an order passed by the Tamil Nadu government for removal of pipelines laid by the gas utility major in farm lands in the state. GAIL was laying pipeline in some farm areas of Tamil Nadu as part of its Kochi-Bangalore pipeline project. However, farmers raised objection to the project in the state and this prompted the state government to disallow the project