RGPPL has signed a power purchase agreement with the government of Daman and Diu for selling about 98 Mw of power from July.
The report, submitted to the government last week, says the slow pace of field development is the reason production has fallen to 50 million standard cubic metres a day (mscmd) from a peak of 60 mscmd last year.
IEA has forecast that in 2011 demand will grow by 1.4 million bpd to 89.4 million bpd.
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RIL is insisting on a more relaxed contract for committing more gas to NTPC.
With RIL's KG-D6 output playing truant, steps need to be taken to stabilise the country's natural gas production.
It is now looking at a solution from the Unique Identification Authority of India for ensuring accurate identification of the beneficiaries of its low-cost services.
Fund balances for the current financial year have already been revised downwards by the ministry from the budgeted Rs 5,062 crore to Rs 3,100 crore.
When people get used to something, they want more of it. But gas will always be short in India. All estimates of gas demand are hugely pessimistic.
The government will reserve the right to decide on the cost recoverability of royalty from Cairn India's block in Barmer while clearing Cairn Energy's sale of its Indian subsidiary to Vedanta Resources.
The government had in July 2010 imposed a cess on coal at an effective rate of Rs 50 a tonne.
The huge reduction in the government's support for Bhavini has brought down the overall budgetary allocation for nuclear power schemes by 20 per cent.
There was a time when gas was offered to India at a cheaper price but we could not close those deals.
The company is also looking to expand the supply of gas by roads and is evaluating creation of small storage hubs along the highways.
In a move to help quicken the flagging pace of distribution reforms in the power sector, the Union finance ministry has approved the creation of a Rs 50,000-crore National Electricity Fund - first mooted in the 2008-09 Budget - for attracting investment in this area.
The Gurgaon-based company, which is in negotiations with Chinese banks, expects to clinch the loans by September.
The Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group's Delhi Airport Express Pvt Ltd (DAMEPL) would run and maintain the line, which would reduce travel time between the heart of the capital and the Indira Gandhi International Airport to 20 minutes.
This forms about 7.5 per cent of India's projected investment of Rs 5,28,316 crore (Rs 5,283.16 billion) in overall infrastructure during the next financial year and over a fourth of the Rs 1,59,000-crore (Rs 1,590-billion) investment to be made in the electricity sector alone in 2011-12, the terminal year of the current Plan period.
Favours stricter impact mitigation rules, monitoring.
The government's initiative to have trading of electricity with Sri Lanka is likely to bear fruit by mid-2014, with the commissioning of a high capacity power transmission link between the two countries. The two countries are likely to sign an MoU for a Rs 2,500-crore (Rs 25 billion) project.
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