Energy-hungry China has signed a landmark $40 billion deal to buy liquefied natural gas (LNG) from Australia for 20 years that Chinese officials say would put the strained relations between Beijing and Canberra back on track.
Petronet LNG Ltd, India's largest liquefied natural gas importer, expects to sign a contract by the end of July for import of 2.5 million tonnes of LNG from Chevron Corp's Gorgon project in Australia.
P Dasgupta was on Thursday appointed the managing director and CEO of Petronet LNG Ltd, India's largest liquified natural gas importer.
After Delhi, CNG price in Mumbai has been hiked by Rs 1.50 per kg and the rate of cooking gas piped to houses by Re 1 due to rise in input costs. Mahanagar Gas Ltd, which retails CNG to automobiles and piped natural gas to households for cooking purposes in Mumbai and surrounding cities, said the increased prices will come into effect from the intervening night of July 8 and 9.
Petroleum Minister Mani Shankar Aiyar will visit Tehran early next week to salvage the LNG-for-oil field deal, which hit an obstacle after Iran sought a very high price for liquefied natural gas it plans to sell to India.
The acquisition of stake in Progress Energy Resources Corp's shale gas assets and Pacific NorthWest LNG for 1 billion Canadian dollars ($900 million) marks IOC's maiden entry into North America.
Iran has changed its pricing formulae for liquefied natural gas sale to India and is demanding 28 cents more per million British thermal unit (mBtu).
Petronet LNG Ltd will sell India's first liquefied natural gas from January next at around $3.6 per million BTU (British Thermal Unit), almost the same price as that of the private domestic natural gas producers.
In an era of deregulation and dismantling of the government-dictated pricing system, Power Minister Anant Geete wants the Centre to regulate the otherwise free liquefied natural gas imports, its pricing and the quantity and place of import.
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.
State-owned Indian Strategic Petroleum Reserves Ltd (ISPRL), which operates India's strategic crude oil storage, will make awards by December to lease around 1 million tons of crude oil storage space (7.3 million barrels) at two of the country's three existing Strategic Petroleum Reserves (SPRs), around a fifth of the total SPR capacity. This will enable the refilling of crude caverns even as escalating hostilities in the Gulf threaten disruptions in crude supplies, two industry sources said.
IOC is building a 5 million tonnes per annum LNG terminal at Ennore near Chennai which is to be completed by 2017.
Qatar is set to reach a liquefied natural gas production target of 77 million tonnes per annum, the world's largest LNG capacity, the country's energy minister has said.
Iran on Thursday made no firm commitments of honouring the $22-billion deal to export LNG to India but said will look at "ways" for early implementation of the two-year-old contract.
ExxonMobil-owned RasGas will supply liquefied natural gas by December to restart the Dabhol power project in Maharashtra, a top official said on Friday.
Global oil and gas majors Shell and ConocoPhillips have offered to sell Australian liquefied natural gas to India to meeting its growing energy needs, petroleum secretary S C Tripathi said on Monday.
GE has refused the supply of crucial equipment needed to make LNG to Tehran. This can hit the $22-bn Indo-Iran deal.
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.
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.
Qatar and Australia are likely to supply fuel for restarting the $3 billion Dabhol Power Project in Maharasthra from the fourth quarter of 2006.
Royal Dutch/Shell will receive the first cargo of liquefied natural gas at its Hazira terminal in Gujarat this month.
the terminal will not be used to run the Dabhol power plant and would be supplied entirely to other domestic companies
With a view to open price bids next month, National Thermal Power Corporation will begin discussions with four bidders, including Reliance Industries, for supplying three million tonnes of LNG.
Petroleum industry Friday demanded abolition of 5 per cent customs duty on imported LNG and a uniform 4 per cent sales tax on LNG throughout the country to promote its use.
Public sector Petronet LNG Ltd will deliver liquefied natural gas imported from Qatar at $3.6-37 per million BTU, matching the prevailing price of domestic natural gas.\n\n
Area residents and environmental groups have resisted the coal power plant ever since it was originally proposed in 2006 due to worries about land clearance and pollution
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday thanked Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani for the release of eight Indian nationals, who were sentenced to death after being arrested in Doha in August 2022.
Appoints Foster Wheeler as consultant to prepare project report.
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