An AQI of 400 or higher is deemed 'severe' and it can have an adverse effect on both healthy individuals and people who already have medical conditions.
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
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.
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
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.
Appoints Foster Wheeler as consultant to prepare project report.
Petronet has concluded term sheets for all agreements for buying 1.5 million tonnes a year of LNG from Exxon Mobil Corp for 20 years, beginning 2014, company Managing Director and CEO Prosad Dasgupta told PTI. Petronet will import the LNG at its under-construction Kochi terminal in Kerala.
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.
The government is considering selling Dabhol Power Plant's LNG terminal after hiving it off from the electricity generating unit, due to delays in completion of unfinished part of the terminal and huge cost-overruns, a power ministry official said.
Plans to build a pipeline from the Chayanda gas field in East Siberia to the proposed Vladivostok LNG facility
India's $22 billion deal to import liquefied natural gas from Iran hangs in balance with Tehran on Tuesday asserting that the agreement was not binding as it has not been ratified by its Supreme Economic Council.
If the talks materialise, this would mark Hyundai's foray into the LNG terminal construction space in India.
Originally, it was envisaged that the 2,150-MW power plant would shift to imported-LNG once the terminal is completed but now natural gas from Reliance Industries' eastern offshore D6 field is envisaged to fire the plant.
"There are eight companies (who have put in expression of interest)... RNRL is one of them," said A K Ahuja, managing director, Ratnagiri Gas and Power Pvt Ltd, the company that operates the nation's biggest gas-fired power plant and the adjacent LNG import facility. Others in the fray include state power utility NTPC and GMR. Ahuja said RGPPL will frame the bidding criteria and call for financial bids by next month.
Gazprom says it considered India as one of its key LNG markets.
India may dump Iran for Yemen and Qatar as a possible source of liquefied natural gas after the ministerial level talks failed to finalise a deal for New Delhi to buy five million tonnes of LNG.
Royal Dutch/Shell may source liquefied natural gas from Oman, Qatar, Malaysia and Australia for sale in India from the first quarter of 2005.
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.
Yamal LNG is a joint venture owned by OAO Novatek with 80 per cent and Total S A holding 20 per cent stake OAO Novatek holds 60 per cent stake in Yamal LNG, while Total S A and China National Petroleum Corp hold 20 per cent each
National Thermal Power Corporation has extended by two weeks to May 12 the last date for bidding for its mega LNG supply tender, to enable Royal Dutch/Shell to cobble a joint bid with French oil giant Total.
Qatar has agreed to supply 1.2 million tonnes per annum of liquefied natural gas to fire the Dabhol power plant in Maharashtra, but differences persist over the price.
Gail India Ltd will import spot LNG cargo from Algeria at $9.28 er million British thermal unit.
With India reluctant to pay a higher price for the liquefied natural gas contracted in 2005, Iran has proposed to sell the fuel to the Indian private sector.
The Government may be keen on having a greater say in affairs of Petronet LNG as it is looking at appointing a bureaucrat as director on board of the nation's biggest liquefied natural gas importer.
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.
The government on Friday said companies wanting to import liquefied natural gas will have to use Indian-flagged vessels - a stipulation which may further delay commissioning of Royal Dutch/Shell's Hazira terminal in Gujarat.
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.
The incident remains a reminder of the inherent fragilities of all geopolitical relationships.
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.
Iran on Tuesday denied existence of any contract for export of liquefied natural gas to India while stating that it cannot wait endlessly for New Delhi to join the Iran-Pakistan-India gas pipeline project.
'Primary buyers are commercial taxi and fleet operators and small businessmen.' 'CNG prices have been remarkably stable unlike petrol.'
