Former oil secretary Tarun Kapoor, present and former chairmen of ONGC and a former director of IOC, are among over a dozen people who have applied for the top job at the oil and gas regulator, PNGRB, sources said. Kapoor, who superannuated as Secretary to the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas last month, is the most prominent name in the list of 13 persons who have applied to become the chairman of Petroleum and Natural Gas Regulatory Board (PNGRB). Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) chairman and managing director Subhash Kumar and his predecessor Shashi Shanker are also in the race and so is G K Satish, who superannuated as Director for Planning and Business Development from Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) a couple of months back.
Russia has defaulted on the supply of at least 5 cargoes or shiploads of LNG to India after its retaliatory sanctions hit one of the companies that supply gas to India, sources said. India's largest gas firm GAIL has a long-term deal to import 2.85 million tonnes of liquefied natural gas (LNG) per annum from a Singapore-based unit of Russian gas producer Gazprom. The company has since June defaulted on the supply of 5 cargoes of LNG under that contract citing difficulty in sourcing gas due to sanctions, two sources briefed on the matter said.
Gas Authority of India Ltd said on Thursday that it is eyeing exploration blocks in Argentina and Mozambique and planning city gas projects in several countries to expand its international operations.
Operating margins have been the primary driver of corporate earnings in India in recent quarters, despite revenue growth suffering from weak consumer demand. Companies across sectors have reported a sharp improvement in earnings before interest, tax, depreciation, and amortisation (Ebitda) margins over the past two years, benefiting from lower commodity and energy prices. Higher margins more than compensated for slower revenue growth, resulting in double-digit growth in net profit for five consecutive quarters.
Delhi-based Shubham Chakraborty, 32, a management graduate from XLRI, Jamshedpur, tells us how he fought anxiety and stress due to poor workplace management.
According a fast track status to the sale of 10 per cent equity each in Oil and Natural Gas Corporation and Gail, the government on Monday said that financial advisors cum lead managers would be appointed by this week for the two issues.
American refiners closed some of their production, leading to futures trade benchmarked to the West Texas Intermediate going negative.
Prime Minister designate Manmohan Singh on Thursday said the public sector units like the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation and Gail would not be privatised.
State-owned Gas Authority of India Ltd has discovered oil and gas near Ahmedabad, in onshore block awarded under the exploration policy.
BPCL is a high revenue-earning public-sector undertaking (PSU) and plans to privatise it are completely off the table, Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said on Tuesday after assuming charge of the ministry for the second time. "Why would we divest ourselves of highly successful Maharatnas like BPCL," Puri said, arguing the Centre was not in favour of divesting its stake in oil PSUs.
Venkataraman Krishnamurthy, who is considered as the turnaround man of several Indian corporate houses like BHEL, Maruti Udyog, SAIL and Gail (India), passed away on Sunday at the age of 97. Krishnamurthy is considered as "the father of public sector undertakings in India" by many in India Inc. Born in the temple town of Tamil Nadu's Karuveli, he started his career as an airfield technician during the Second World War.
Corporate India continues to be generous in rewarding its shareholders with big dividend payouts. This is especially true for shareholders of companies such as Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Hindustan Zinc (HZL), and Coal India (CIL) which are seen as cash cows of large business groups and the government. Boosted by a big payout by these three companies, the combined equity dividend payout by listed companies was up 38 per cent year-on-year (YoY) to a record high of Rs 2.27 trillion in 2022-23 (FY23), compared with Rs 1.65 trillion in 2021-22 (FY22).
State-owned gas transportation company, Gas Authority of India Ltd has proposed a global depository receipt issue of 2.5 per cent of its equity shares.
State gas transmission firm Gas Authority of India Ltd on Friday filed the draft prospectus for the public issue of government's 10 per cent stake with capital market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India.
State-run gas firm Gas Authority (India) Ltd may list on the New York Stock Exchange or the Nasdaq by converting its global depository receipts into American depository receipts.
As India's electricity demand soars, the power ministry on Tuesday reviewed the power supply situation to ensure 'zero load shedding' during the summer months. The ministry has drafted plans ranging from delaying planned maintenance of thermal power stations to mandatory operations of imported coal-based and gas-based stations till September. In a series of meetings with industry stakeholders, Union Minister for Power, New, and Renewable Energy R K Singh emphasised the importance of adequate planning to avoid situations where one state has surplus power while another state faces shortages.
Gail to finalise HPL equity participation soon
Most brokerages are betting that the new government will shift to a policy focussing on boosting rural incomes and consumption since that has clearly been a pain point.
With two more persons succumbing to their burn injuries on Sunday, the toll in Friday's deadly fire-blast, apparently caused by leakage from a GAIL gas pipeline in Nagaram, Andhra Pradesh, rose to 19 even as the condition of at least three others remains critical, police said.
GailTel, the telecom arm of state-owned Gas Authority of India announced on Thursday an investment of Rs 750 crore (Rs 7.5 billion) over thr next five years to expand its telecom infrastructure, combining it with its proposed city gas pipeline.
Gail India subsidiary Mahanagar Gas (MGL) on Friday announced a steep reduction in the retail price of compressed natural gas (CNG) by Rs 8/kg and domestic PNG (piped natural gas) by Rs 5/SCM across its licenced area. The move comes on the heels of the Centre revising the pricing methodology of domestically-produced natural gas on Thursday as proposed by the Kirit Parikh committee and following it with the new price announcement earlier in the day. In February, the city gas distributor reduced its CNG price by Rs 2.5/kg but prices are still around 80 per cent more than those in April last.
Indian Oil Corporation and Bharat Petroleum Corporation have backed out of Gail's Vizag-Secunderabad LPG pipeline.
The government on Wednesday fixed a floor price of Rs 185 per share for the ensuing public offer of Gas Authority of India Ltd.
Gas Authority of India Ltd is eyeing a stake in the oil and gas exploration blocks in Argentina and Mozambique. Gail is talking to Shell for picking up stake in two city gas distribution companies in Egypt.
Escalation of the conflict in West Asia between Israel and Iran has had a direct impact on the energy markets, and more broadly on the financial markets as well as the global economy.
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), the group's biggest cash generator, overtook Vedanta to become the highest dividend payer in India in FY23. The IT services major paid Rs 42,090 crore for FY23, up 167.4 per cent from Rs 15,738 crore for FY22. The 10 biggest payers together shelled out Rs 2.06 trillion for FY23, more than double the Rs 98,371 crore for FY22.
Oil and Natural Gas Corporation, Gas Authority of India and Oil India Ltd will pay Rs 1,200 crore (Rs 12 billion) to the state-run oil marketing firms for the losses they suffered during the first quarter for selling LPG and kerosene below the cost.
The government will allow exploration firm Oil and Natural Gas Corporation and Gas Authority of India to market domestic LPG to increase penetration of cooking fuel to 75 per cent of the population.
A roadshow for the public offer of 10 per cent government equity in the public sector gas transmission unit -- GAIL -- would be flagged off on February 20 in Mumbai.
At least four firms including Gas Authority of India Ltd, Petronas of Malaysia and British Gas have bid for supplying natural gas/LNG to Reliance Energy's mega 3740 MW gas-fired power plant at Dadri in Uttar Pradesh.
The government said on Saturday that the public offer of state-owned gas transmission company Gas Authority India Ltd would hit the market on February 27 followed by Oil and Natural Gas Corp public float on March 5.
State-run Gas Authority of India said on Thursday that it will invest Rs 4000 crore (Rs 40 billion) in laying pipelines and expanding capacity of its Pata petrochemical complex this fiscal, with 60 per cent of the requirement being raised through deb
The two firms are discussing bidding jointly for CGD projects in cities that would be put on offer by the sector regulator, Petroleum and Natural Gas Regulatory Board in the future.
Scottish explorer Cairn Energy Plc rejected state-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corp's $200 million bid to acquire its oil and gas properties on east and west coasts of India.
The competition between the two main players vying to lay cross-country natural gas pipelines has undergone a volte-face.
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