According to RIL's announcement for the first quarter ended June 30, the KG-D6 field produced 33.1% less gas in the quarter.
In a marginal relief to consumers, IndianOil, the biggest oil marketing company, has cut petrol prices by Rs 0.56 per litre with effect from midnight today.
All current staff of BPCM is expected to transfer to the new owners under equivalent terms and conditions.
Although the apex court's opinion on the Presidential reference comes at a time when the floppy bidding route for coal blocks is being criticised, it will not come in the way of allocation of natural resources through auctioning.
Mandatory pvt participation, annual tariff hikes, conforming to FRBM limits seen difficult.
IndianOil targets monthly 5,000-tonne polypropylene exports
The private companies want a level playing field so that they can compete with the government companies in fuel retailing.
About two million tonnes (mt) of condensates produced by the oil company were taken into account while apportioning the subsidy burden.
Oil firms yet to get Rs 18,000 crore (Rs 18 billion) of FY12 subsidy compensation, as estimate for this year's underrecovery swells past Budget allocation.
RIL on Friday declared a net profit of Rs 20,040 crore (Rs 200.4 billion) for the 2011-12, a marginal drop from the Rs 20,286 crore (Rs 202.86 billion) it made in 2010-11.
Mehta's exit and Hilton's entry would see the company making history in India, where women have remained out of the chairperson's slot in energy companies, private or state-run.
The last week of March saw a series of new refining capacity going on stream. HPCL-Mittal Energy, Essar Oil and Mangalore Refinery & Petrochemicals (MRPL) were able to announce completion of capacity additions a couple of days before the seven-year tax holiday in this regard came to an end, on March 31.
ONGC to take biggest hit of Rs 4,600 crore, followed by Cairn India and Oil India.
The government's plans to reign in petroleum subsidies to plug the fiscal deficit next financial year are in jeopardy, as a whopping Rs 2.13 lakh-crore revenue loss is expected at the current levels of global crude oil prices and domestic retail prices of controlled products.
The two government upstream companies, along with GAIL, make good a third of the losses made by government oil marketing companies.
Food inflation has entered negative territory but consumers have had no respite on cost of living.
Petroleum secretary G C Chaturvedi said the arbitration notice grants a time of up to a month to respond and there was no hurry.
The consumption of petroleum products in India is growing at a rate much lower than the conservative projection of 4.58 per cent made for this year by the Petroleum Products Planning and Analysis Cell (PPAC), a wing of the petroleum ministry.
Prime minister bats for common standards to be implemented in all jurisdictions.
Seeks deferred payments for domestic purchases, dollar window.
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