GAIL India will hold 28 per cent stake in the special purpose vehicle, being set up for the revival of $2.9 billion Dabhol power project.
State-run gas firm GAIL (India) Ltd on Wednesday said it was talking to the Indian lenders of the Dabhol Power Company to takeover the 2,184 MW power plant and the adjoining LNG import facility in Maharashtra.
GAIL, which currently markets 4.8 million standard cubic metres per day of gas from the fields lying in western offshore, will now get to market the entire output of 15.5 mmscmd from PMT fields, a move that will boost the company's annual revenue by about Rs 5,000 crore (Rs 50 billion), official sources said.
"The increase in net profit during the third quarter of the current financial year was mainly due to the increase in natural gas transmission, LPG transmission and natural gas trading business," GAIL Chairman and Managing Director B C Tripathi said.
The proposed chemical plant will use 2,50,000 tons of naphtha produced by IOC's Barauni refinery and the natural gas that GAIL plans to bring from eastern offshore and imported LNG through the planned Jagdishpur-Haldia pipeline. The two firms by the fiscal year would prepare a techno-economic feasibility study for the unit that would take up to five years for construction.
State-owned Gail India Ltd, which has been given the task to source fuel for restarting the Dabhol power project in Maharasthra, is talking to LNG suppliers in Qatar, Australia, Malaysia, Oman and UAE.
State-run GAIL (India) Ltd, which has laid a vast network of fibre optic cables along the gas pipeline grid it operates, will sell bandwidth to newspapers, news agencies and TV channels at a 70 per cent discount.
In May 1992, ONGC handed over gas pipelines and marketing functions connected with natural gas to GAIL. However, it continues to be the marketing agency in certain isolated pockets.
State-run Gail (India) Ltd on Monday said it will hive off its gas trading business into a separate company by 2008, by when the ambitious Rs 20,000 crore (Rs 200 billion) national gas pipeline grid will be in place.\n\n\n\n
GAIL (India) Ltd has agreed to infuse an additional Rs 500 crore (Rs 5 billion) into Ratnagiri Gas and Power Pvt Ltd to enable the owner of the beleaguered Dabhol plant to clear pending dues of contractors.
ONGC Videsh-GAIL India consortium, which holds 30 per cent interest in recently-discovered gas field in offshore Myanmar, is eyeing 50 per cent stake of South Korean Daewoo International in an adjacent gas block.
Government on Tuesday decided to sell 10 per cent stake in India's largest profit making firm Oil and Natural Gas Corp and gas transmission monopoly Gail (India) Ltd.\n\n
GAIL on Wednesday said it is in talks with Reliance for laying a Rs 6,725 crore pipeline from Kakinada in Andhra Pradesh to Uran to pipe natural gas from RIL's gas fields in Bay of Bengal to consumption centres in West and North.
The government's offer for sale of 84.5 million equity shares in GAIL (India) Ltd through book-built public offer opened on Friday and received bids for 4.411 million shares in the first hour of bidding process.
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.
State-run Gail (India) Ltd on Friday approved Rs 500 crore (Rs 5 billion) investment in Ratnagiri Gas and Power Pvt Ltd, the special purpose vehicle created to restart Dabhol power plant in Ratnagiri, Maharashtra.
Eighteen candidates from state-owned companies have applied for the post of chairman and managing director of the country's largest gas marketer, GAIL India, nine months before the incumbent retires.
Plans to build a pipeline from the Chayanda gas field in East Siberia to the proposed Vladivostok LNG facility
Reliance Industries, India's most valuable company, and state-run gas firm GAIL India on Tuesday joined hands to set up a multi-billion-dollar petrochemical plant in gas-rich Middle-East, Central Asia or Russia.
The world's third largest oil firm Royal Dutch/Shell has offered state-run gas firm Gail (India) Ltd a 15 per cent stake in an offshore medium sized gas field in Egypt.
GAIL (India) Ltd is in talks with US energy major Exxon for importing 5 million tons of liquefied natural gas at Dabhol, company chairman U D Choubey said on Wednesday.
Gail India Ltd said on Monday it will set up LPG plants in Uzbekistan as part of its globalisation drive.\n\n
The board of GAIL India, the country's largest transporter and marketer of natural gas, on Wednesday approved a proposal to pick up to 19 per cent stake in Oil and Natural Gas Corporation's (ONGC) petrochemical project in Gujarat.
The government has slashed allocation of natural gas used for LPG production, and diverted the low-priced fuel to city gas retailers like Indraprastha Gas Ltd and Adani-Total Gas Ltd to meet a part of their requirement for CNG/piped cooking gas supplies, according an official order. The government had in October and November last year cut supplies of low-priced natural gas coming from old fields such as Mumbai High and Bassein fields in the Bay of Bengal, to city gas retailers by as much as 40 per cent in view of limited output.
Addressing a meet organised by PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry in New Delhi, GAIL chairman and managing director B C Tripathi said his company was laying new pipelines to connect cities like Uttar Pradesh, Uttrakhand, Punjab and Haryana.
GAIL (India) Ltd on Friday reported a 22 per cent dip in its net profit at Rs 409 crore (Rs 4.09 billion) to fourth quarter ended March 31 on having to payout Rs 538 crore (Rs 5.38 billion) towards subsidising LPG and kerosene.
India will develop underground natural gas storage facilities as an insurance against disruption and supply shortfall.
Gail India Ltd said on Thursday its Chairman and Managing Director has been selected as fellow of the World Academy of Productivity Science.
The Cairn-ONGC-Videocon consortium had last month written to the petroleum ministry seeking a 57 per cent hike in the Ravva Satellite field gas price citing provision in the Production Sharing Contract for the field.
The petroleum ministry has blamed negligence for causing the devastating fire at state-owned gas transporter GAIL India Ltd's gas pipeline in Andhra Pradesh that killed 22 people.
Indian Oil Corporation, India's largest refiner, on Thursday sold half its stake in gas firm GAIL (India) Ltd for Rs 561.54 crore (Rs 5.61 billion) to repay debts and raise money for expansion plans.
GAIL (India) Limited on Thursday signed three sweeping memoranda of understanding with as many Chinese companies in the oil and gas sector in both countries
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