Soon state-run oil marketing companies (OMCs) - Indian Oil Corporation, Bharat Petroleum Corporation and Hindustan Petroleum Corporation -would receive notices on alleged cartelisation, said Ashok Chawla, Chairman of the Competition Commission of India (CCI). Speaking on the sidelines of a conference, Chawla said. the CCI has taken up the issue after the government clari
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Niko feels improvement in business condition in India
Edward S Sampson, President and CEO of Niko Resources, the Canadian oil company said the business environment in India appears to have improved significantly as evidenced by the release of a government-appointed committee's report on domestic gas pricing. He said this in a message to shareholders. It may be noted that the firm is jointly exploring hydrocarbon with Reliance Industries in the D6 and NEC-25 blocks.
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State-run OMCs to get notice from CCI on cartelisation probe
Soon state-run oil marketing companies (OMCs) - Indian Oil Corporation, Bharat Petroleum Corporation and Hindustan Petroleum Corporation -would receive notices on alleged cartelisation, said Ashok Chawla, Chairman of the Competition Commission of India (CCI). Speaking on the sidelines of a conference, Chawla said. the CCI has taken up the issue after the government clari
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FAI opposes gas pricing formula of panel
Fertiliser Association of India (FAI) warned that the natural gas pricing formula suggested by the Rangarajan Committee, if implemented, would raise the price of urea considerably. At present there is a production of about 18 million tonne of urea using natural gas in the country. An increase of $1 per million BTU will increase the total cost of p
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FAI opposes gas pricing formula of panel
Fertiliser Association of India (FAI) warned that the natural gas pricing formula suggested by the Rangarajan Committee, if implemented, would raise the price of urea considerably. At present there is a production of about 18 million tonne of urea using natural gas in the country. An increase of $1 per million BTU will increase the total cost of p
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GAIL expects to use 75% capacity in 5 yrs
Media reports suggest that state-run GAIL India expects to achieve around 75 per cent capacity utilisation of its gas transmission network on an average in the next five years. The company expects to achieve this capacity utilisation given that it would have a total capacity of around 250-300 mmscmd by fiscal 2016-17 and have an expe
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GAIL expects to use 75% capacity in 5 yrs
Media reports suggest that state-run GAIL India expects to achieve around 75 per cent capacity utilisation of its gas transmission network on an average in the next five years. The company expects to achieve this capacity utilisation given that it would have a total capacity of around 250-300 mmscmd by fiscal 2016-17 and have an expe
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Disinvestment secy expects Rs 270 bn from stake sale in FY13
Union Disinvestment Secretary Ravi Mathur informed reporters that the government may manage to mop up Rs 27,000 crore by offloading stakes in state-run firms in 2012-13. It may be recalled that the central government earlier set a target to raise Rs 30,000 crore through disinv
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Oil ministry proposes to adopt new gas price formula
Media reports suggest that the union petroleum ministry wants the government to adopt the pricing formula for natural gas proposed by the Rangarajan Committee. Specifically, the ministry wants the pricing formula to apply to all forms of natural gas - conventional, shale and coal-bed methane (CBM). Also, the ministry prop
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Ministry works on coal bed methane policy
Union Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas Veerappa Moily informed reporters that his ministry is in the process of revising the coal-bed methane policy introduced in 1997 in order to suit present conditions. He said the ministry would discuss with the coal ministry in this regard. Meanwhile, Moily said his ministry would be putting befo