State-owned exploration firm Oil and Natural Gas Corporation will begin retailing petrol and diesel from its own petrol stations by the year end, company chairman and managing director Subir Raha said on Thursday.
It will be Reliance Industries' gigantic gas find on the east coast versus the imported LNG offered by ONGC and Indian Oil Corporation in the tender for supply of gas to the 1400 MW power plant in Karnataka.
Oil and Natural Gas Corporation will set up a specialised trading desk in India to market crude oil received from investments in oil fields abroad and surplus petroleum products from subsidiary Mangalore Refinery Petrochemicals Ltd.
The government on Monday announced a selling price of Rs 750 per share for the public offer of 14.26 crore shares in Oil and Natural Gas Corporation.
The board of Oil and Natural Gas Corporation has approved an investment of Rs 5,713 crore (Rs 57.13 billion) for the second phase of redevelopment of the Bombay High in the Western Offshore.
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The Oil and Natural Gas Corporation plans to invest around Rs 750 crore (Rs 7.50 billion) on upgrading the product quality and debottlenecking in Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Ltd.
The combined market valuation of top nine Sensex firms advanced by a whopping Rs 1.39 lakh crore with energy majors ONGC and RIL emerging as the star performers, while TCS saw a marginal dip last week when stock market recorded life-time highs.
He further said that the "focus is on horizontal drilling" as rock formation has created challenges for vertical drilling.
'I would not suggest buying these stocks in the dip, as the upside in profit is dented without a safety net for a rainy day.'
ONGC confirmed on discovering natural gas in KG basin off the Andhra Pradesh coast and Mahanadi basin off Orissa coast, but said the find in KG basin posts 'technological challenges' and it was on looking for a strategic partner.
The RBI interest rate decision, industrial production data for June and the ongoing quarterly earnings from corporates would largely drive the stock markets this week, analysts said. Other major factors such as global market trends, the movement of oil prices and the trading activity of foreign investors would also influence trading, they added. "The market will have an eye on the RBI Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) meeting, which will be announced on August 10, 2023. We are heading towards the last batch of Q2 earnings of key companies such as Adani Ports, Coal India, Hero MotoCorp, Hindalco and ONGC, among others, which will lead to stock-specific movement," said Pravesh Gour, senior technical analyst, Swastika Investmart Ltd.
The first parcel of 90,000 tonnes is expected at Mangalore port around December 2.
State-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corp will invest Rs 985 crore (Rs 9.85 billion) to develop the Bassein East field, which is estimated to contain 97 million tonnes of oil and oil equivalent gas.
The government has cut the windfall profit tax on crude oil produced in the country while the levy on exports of diesel and ATF has been hiked, an official notification said. The tax, levied in the form of special additional excise duty or SAED, on domestically produced crude oil was reduced to Rs 6,700 per tonne from Rs 7,100 a tonne. SAED on the export of diesel was increased to Rs 6 per litre from Rs 5.50 a litre and on jet fuel or ATF to Rs 4 per litre from Rs 2, the notification said.
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.
Prices of natural gas, which is used to generate electricity, make fertiliser and is converted into CNG to run automobiles, is likely to rise to record levels at the rate review scheduled this week, sources said. The government-dictated price for natural gas produced in the country is to be revised on October 1. After factoring in the spike in energy prices witnessed in recent months, the rate paid for gas produced from old fields such as of state-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) is likely to rise to $9 per million British thermal units from current $6.1.
Oil and Natural Gas Corporation said on Tuesday it was making an annual loss of Rs 700 crore (Rs 7 billion) on sale of gas at administered prices even as Reliance Industries stated it followed a transparent process to discover the price of gas.
"We have not yet lost hope and rescue operations are on. But we fear 4 to 5 people may be dead," ONGC Chairman and Managing Director R S Sharma said.
Cairn India, which is the operator of the block with 70 per cent stake, does not have to pay any royalty. At $50 per barrel crude oil price, the royalty outgo over the entire life of the field would be Rs 16,209 crore (Rs 162.09 billion) -- Rs 4,862.7 crore (Rs 48.62 billion) on its share and Rs 11,346.3 crore (Rs 113.46 billion) on behalf Cairn.
Oil and Natural Gas Corporation will shell out Rs 5,023 crore (Rs 50.23 billion) to subsidise kerosene and LPG in the second quarter of current fiscal.
OVL, along with global oil majors such as Royal Dutch Shell, ExxonMobil, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, British Petroleum, Total and China National Petroleum Corporation, is one of the 35 companies short-listed by the Iraqi government for the auction, which includes six oil-producing blocks with recoverable reserves of 40 billion barrels of oil, making it the largest such auction in the world.
Upstream oil firms bear one-third of the revenue that retailers lose on selling diesel, domestic LPG and Kerosene at government-controlled rates.
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Global funds, according to Christopher Wood, global head of equity strategy at Jefferies, are now beginning to pay more attention to India with the market now offering 30 companies with a market capitalisation over $25 billion.
The 41 workers trapped in Uttarakhand's Silkyara tunnel for the last 11 days are likely to be rescued in the next few hours or by tomorrow, National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) member Lt Gen (retd) Syed Ata Hasnain said on Thursday evening.
Petroleum Minister Dharmendra Pradhan was to give away the awards but he could not attend because he was travelling.
The state-run Oil and Natural Gas Corporation has reported a 24 per cent jump in its net profit to Rs 2,825 crore in the second quarter ended September 30 as against Rs 2,276.59 crore in the same period a year ago.
The Centre -- running out of cash, and time before the Budget to meet its fiscal deficit target -- will get as dividend Rs 3,964 crore (Rs 39.64 billion) from its flagship listed firm Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC).
The Oil and Natural Gas Corp, which is laying a 741-km long petroleum product pipeline in Sudan, will also build a $1.2 billion oil refinery in the African nation.
Capital expenditure (capex) by 54 large central public sector enterprises (CPSEs) and five departmental arms with an annual capex target of Rs 100 crore and above has reached around 42.5 per cent of their annual target of about Rs 7.33 trillion in this financial year so far, a senior official from the Ministry of Finance told Business Standard. "The Centre is pushing the big public undertakings in the infrastructure and refinery sector to achieve 90 per cent of their target by the end of the third quarter," he said. The capex by this group of CPSEs stands at around Rs 3.1 trillion in the April-August period so far.
India's largest oil producer Oil and Natural Gas Corp, gas utility GAIL and exploration firm Oil India Ltd will pay Rs 3,246 crore (Rs 32.46 billion) to oil marketing firms to partly cover the losses they made in April-June.
Of this amount, over Rs 16,000 crore (Rs 160 billion) is being invested to improve output from seven fields, he told company's shareholders.
Oil and Natural Gas Corporation said on Wednesday it will begin production from its ultra deep sea gas discovery in the Krishna-Godavari basin off the east coast by 2012-13.
