Petronet LNG Limited is expected to deliver liquefied natural gas from its Dahej terminal at Rs 6,567 per million standard cubic metres (mscm), provided the international price of crude remains at $16 a barrel.\n\n\n\n
Petronet LNG Ltd, India's largest liquefied natural gas importer, is eyeing equity in LNG plants in gas exporting countries even as it plans to invest Rs 4,000 crore
India plans to buy more liquefied natural gas from Qatar and will expand the capacity of its Dahej LNG terminal to 10 million tonnes a year from the present five million tonnes.
A Q-Max LNG vessel, the largest LNG carrier in its class, with a capacity of about 261,000 cubic meters, was received at Petronet LNG Ltd's Dahej import terminal in Gujarat on Tuesday.
The capacity of the proposed facility, part of Indian Oil's Rs 56,000-cr investment plan during the 12th Plan, will be five mt a year.
Large quantities of liquefied natural gas will start flowing into the country from the Dahej Terminal in Gujarat when it becomes operational from January next year, Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Ram Naik said on Thursday.
The $3 billion Dabhol power plant in Maharashtra is likely to be completed by 2007-end, the Empowered Group of Ministers was informed on Thursday.
India on Friday received its first-ever import cargo of liquefied natural gas (LNG) at Dahej in Gujarat, that will help bridge the huge natural gas deficit in the country.
Gail (India) Ltd, the public sector gas firm, on Tuesday announced that it has tied up the sale of its share of LNG being imported from Qatar and said the regassified LNG from Dahej is the most competitive fuel for power and fertilizer units.
Petronet LNG Ltd will begin supplying liquefied natural gas imported from Qatar, Egypt, Algeria and Oman to the beleaguered Dabhol power plant once a small 15-km stretch of pipeline is completed, a company official said.
Petronet LNG Ltd, which will become India's first LNG importer when Qatari RasGas' cargo lands at its Dahej import terminal in January next, has planned an initial public offering of equity shares in the same month.
The government may subsidise costly imported gas by making users of cheaper domestic gas pay more under its unique plan to rationalise gas prices, a source in knowledge of the development said.
The government has slashed by up to 20 per cent the supplies of cheaper domestically produced natural gas to city retailers -- a move that may result in Rs 4-6 per kg hike in the price of CNG sold to automobiles, unless excise duty on the fuel is cut, sources said. Natural gas pumped from below the ground and from under the seabed from sites ranging from the Arabian Sea to Bay of Bengal within India is the raw material that is turned into CNG for sale to automobiles and piped cooking gas to households.
In a major technological breakthrough, oil retailer IBP Co Ltd has developed cryogenic trucks for transporting liquefied natural gas that eliminates need for conventional gas pipelines.
Gail India Ltd will import spot LNG cargo from Algeria at $9.28 er million British thermal unit.
Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Ram Naik said on Wednesday that an agreement with Qatar had been finalised for supply of liquified natural gas from next year.
India and Japan's effort to form a multilateral group of liquefied natural gas buyers to avoid paying higher prices for the fuel is laudable as an objective but is unlikely to be effective immediately.
IOC is building a 5 million tonnes per annum LNG terminal at Ennore near Chennai which is to be completed by 2017.
Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone Ltd (APSEZ) on Tuesday announced the acquisition of a 95 per cent stake in Gopalpur Ports in Odisha from Shapoorji Pallonji Group and Orissa Stevedores Ltd at an equity value of Rs 1,349 crore. In Gopalpur Ports, Shapoorji Pallonji Group (SP Group) firm SP Port Maintenance Pvt Ltd has a 56 per cent stake and Orissa Stevedores Ltd (OSL) has a 44 per cent stake. Gopalpur Port is an all-weather deep-water berthing port with a capacity of 20 million tonnes per annum (MTPA) situated in Ganjam district of Odisha.
The first stretch of Dahej-Panvel-Dabhol pipeline, which will feed natural gas to the beleaguered Dabhol power project in Maharashtra, has been commissioned.
Gas Authority of India Ltd on Monday said strong winds of over 40 knots caused an accident at Petronet LNG Ltd's R-LNG terminal at Dahej, when the tug boats of LNG carrier 'Disha' hit the dolphin piles of the jetty on September 17.
The Ratnagiri Gas and Power Pvt Ltd is likely to get gas for power production by June-end, GAIL (India) chairman UB Choubey said.
The state-run power utility NTPC Ltd has signed an agreement to buy gas from GAIL India for 10 years at a delivered price of close to $8 per million British thermal unit.
Petronet LNG Ltd, India's largest liquefied natural gas importer, will raise $100 million through foreign currency convertible bonds in June-July, which would result in its promoters ONGC, GAIL IOC and BPCL shareholding falling by 7.5 per cent.