Price pooling has been proposed by the Union Power Ministry for imported and domestically produced natural gas to be supplied to power plants stranded by a drop in production of the fuel from Reliance Industries' KG-D6 block. The ministry floated a Cabinet note last week to seek government's permission to pool imported liquefied natural gas (LNG) with the fuel available from the KG-D6 block after meeting the requirements of fertiliser units.
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Pricing pooling for natural gas more complex than that for coal
Some experts feel that the issue of price pooling for natural gas is more complex than that for coal. This is because, unlike coal, there is no monopoly producer for natural gas and hence fixing a uniform price is even trickier. A six-member committee headed by the head of the Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council, C Rangarajan, was tasked with suggesting a formula for gas