Wholesale inflation shot up to a 30-month high of 5.25 per cent in January as rising global crude oil prices spiked domestic fuel cost, even as food prices moderated.
Reliance Industries has sought tripling of its KG-D6 gas price from April 1, 2014 after the current below market rate of USD 4.205 per mmBtu expires.
5 commodities namely crude oil, natural gas, petrol, diesel, and aviation turbine fuel (ATF) were kept out of GST's purview given the revenue dependence of state governments on these sectors.
India has evinced interest in building refineries and petrochemical plants in Iraq and is keen to source liquefied natural gas (LNG) from its second largest oil supplier.
Among PSBs, the top gainers have been Union Bank of India and Corporation Bank, whose shares have rallied more than 15% each. Indian Bank and Bank of Baroda, too, registered double-digit rise
Currently, the gas pipelines have a capacity to transport 230 mmscmd of gas.
Pooling will also kick-start projects of Reliance Power, Torrent, Lanco.
The group companies now lead the market capitalisation league table in sectors such as ports, power generation, gas distribution and transmission, and power transmission and distribution, ahead of incumbents in both public and private sector. This has Gautam Adani family the second wealthiest in business in India.
The department has proposed to pool prices of imported and domestically produced natural gas.
GAIL India plans to consolidate presence in petrochemicals and renewable energy, allocate a percentage of annual capital expenditure for exploration and production (E&P), pick up equity in upstream LNG projects abroad, and pursue investments in shale gas projects in and outside.
The company is also looking to expand the supply of gas by roads and is evaluating creation of small storage hubs along the highways.
The sale is key to meeting the government's disinvestment target of Rs 2.1 trillion in the financial year 2020-21. So far, the disinvestment exercise has fetched the government Rs 34,845 crore during the current financial year.
Minister of State for Petroleum and Natural Gas Jitin Prasada has said state-run oil companies have the freedom to fix petrol prices, but the government will step in if rates shoot up "indiscriminately".
On the agreement of Uranium exports to India from Australia, he said the two countries were working on it and there has been 'good progress'.
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Overnight, the Wall Street closed on a flatter note.
The multilateral lending agency holds 3.9 crore (Rs 39 million) shares in Petronet LNG, which at today's trading price of Rs 114.85 is worth Rs 448 crore (Rs 4.48 billion).
Prices of natural gas, which is used to produce fertiliser and generate electricity and is also converted into CNG for use in automobiles as fuel and cooking gas for households, are set every six months -- on April 1 and October 1 each year.
Struggling to meet budget targets, the government had in the just concluded fiscal asked cash-rich PSUs to pay second interim dividend as well as undertake share buyback.
The rising oil prices, growing awareness about environment friendly cars has turned the attention of car manufacturers to alternative fuels like LPG, electric cars and dual fuel cars.
The Mahindra group's Igatpuri plant becomes the first in India to be declared carbon-neutral. Ashish Narsale / Rediff.com finds out how this was achieved.
Credit Suisse said $5.6 may work for Reliance Industries' R-Series gas field in the KG-D6 block but the economics for its satellite fields and NEC-25 block are uncertain.
Availability of natural gas, including imported LNG, is likely to increase in the country by over 52 per cent to 271.92 million cubic meters a day by 2013-14, Oil Minister Murli Deora said on Thursday.
Nearly 23 people were feared dead after a boat carrying about 40 suspected asylum seekers sank on Monday, hundreds of nautical miles off the Cocos Islands, west of Australia.
Piped cooking gas rates are also increased by Re 1 with effect from midnight.
Gas Authority of India Ltd, which signed a memorandum of understanding with the state government recently, will spend Rs 2,000 crore (Rs 20 billion) this year to lay the pipeline, a senior company official said.
Custom duties, a major concern for the oil sector.
In a report released at the VI Asia Gas Partnership Summit, Mckinsey said the current demand of 166 mmscmd -- made up of nearly 132 mmscmd supplies from domestic fields and the rest from imported LNG -- is likely to rise to at least a minimum of 230 mmscmd and a maximum of 320 mmscmd by 2015.
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Experts say local demand, government policies in retail and refining sector are attracting foreign players.
The government had this month more than doubled RGPPL's allocation from KG-D6 to 5.67 million standard cubic meters per day that will help generate about 1,000 MW of electricity.
The beleaguered Dabhol power plant will from October 1 start buying natural gas from Reliance Industries to cut electricity generation cost at the nation's largest gas-fired unit.
This is the best time to be in India, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said today as he wooed top Australian corporate honchos to invest in the country which is undergoing reforms to improve business environment.
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The agreement, which will be reviewed at the end of five years, will boost profitability of the steel firms who had been buying expensive LNG or naphtha to meet feedstock shortage at their plants, a senior official said. The ministry of petroleum and natural gas had last week asked Reliance to sell natural gas to steel firms like Essar, Ispat and Vikarm Ispat to help the nation's most prolific gas field to produce at optimum level.
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With the government reducing the net worth for new entities in fuel-marketing space to Rs 250 crore, the market is open for new players like Total, Adani, and Saudi Aramco -- and even supermarkets - to open fuel outlets.
Petronet LNG, which operates a recently expanded ten-million-tonne gas regassification plant in Dahej on the west coast, is exploring a swap option with the gas from the Krishna-Godavari field (K-G D6) on the east coast owned by Reliance Industries Ltd.
RIL has complained the to power ministry about NTPC's reluctance to sign an agreement to buy gas from it and said that the power PSU stands to lose Rs 15,000 crore (Rs 150 billion)on buying imported LNG.
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