Days after the Cabinet approved doubling of natural gas price from April next year, the Finance Ministry has written to Oil Ministry suggesting setting of a ceiling or an upper limit for the rates.
The 3-year partnership to set up a pan India initiative to catalyse the country's technology startup ecosystem was signed today by R A Mashelkar, Chairman, GenNext Ventures and Board Member, RIL, and Bhaskar Pramanik, Chairman, Microsoft India.
RIL had sought 11.80 million standard cubic meters per day of KG D-6 gas to meet feedstock requirement at its twin refineries but it got only 2.34 mmscmd.
Owing to a big rise in the market capitalisation of group companies such as Adani Green Energy and Adani Transmission, the group promoters, the Gautam Adani family, have closed the wealth gap with Mukesh Ambani, the promoter and owner of Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL). Ambani continues to top India's billionaire league table. The Ambani family's net worth was estimated to be Rs 8.06 trillion (around $108 billion) on Tuesday against the Rs 6.87 trillion (around $92 billion) of the Adani family.
The market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) has asked the government to consider appropriate action against Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) for allegedly routing funds to dummy companies for buying large quantity of its shares 2000.
The government on Monday refused to review its decision rejecting the price of natural gas proposed to be sold by Reliance Industries Ltd to an Anil Ambani group firm.
The companies want to drill exploration wells in already producing oil and gas fields.
A price of $4.20 per million British thermal units is not viable for smaller gas discoveries, say industry experts.
Reliance Industries has said that developing smaller gas fields in the KG-D6 block is economically unviable at the current price of $4.20 per mmBtu and it may seek a rate of at least $6 per mmBtu in 2014, when the fields are put into production.
The Directorate General of Hydrocarbons (DGH) had recommended to the ministry that RIL be asked to give up 86% of its KG-D6 gas block area
Japan's Orix Corporation, which was in talks with Reliance Industries (RIL) to sell its 23.87 per cent stake in Infrastructure Leasing and Finance Company (IL&FS), has bowled a googly.
State-run insurer LIC and private fund house Franklin Templeton have hiked their stake in Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Industries by collectively buying about 23 lakh shares, currently worth an estimated Rs 200 crore (Rs 2 billion).
RIL is currently producing 36 mmscmd gas from KG-D6, half of which goes to power plants. The firm has the capacity to produce 60 mmscmd but is constrained to produce less as the government is yet to identify customers for buying gas beyond the initial 40 mmscmd, allocated primarily to fertiliser and power producers in accordance with the Gas Utilisation Policy.
Move aimed at increasing US major's refining flexibility & scale.
Future Retail Ltd (FRL) on Tuesday said it will explore all legal remedies to pursue its Rs 24,713-crore deal with RIL following a Delhi high court order directing status quo to be maintained till the court pronounces its order. Earlier in the day, a Delhi high court bench of Justice J R Midha directed FRL to maintain status quo in relation to its deal with Reliance Retail that has been objected to by US-based e-commerce giant, Amazon. Amazon welcomed the latest court directive.
Market regulator SEBI is believed to have issued show-cause notice to Reliance Industries and its associate entities following a probe into charges of insider trading in securities of group firm Reliance Petroleum.
The extraordinary general meeting of Reliance Industries Ltd on Friday virtually cleared the demerger of group companies, with company chairman Mukesh Ambani submitting over 65 per cent 'proxy' votes in favour of the scheme.
Siding with Reliance group chairman Mukesh Ambani, the board of the flagship company RIL on Wednesday rejected objections raised by his younger brother and vice chairman Anil
The government on Friday rejected Reliance Industries Ltd's demand for compensation equal to public sector oil firms, to make up for the losses it suffered on petrol and diesel sales.
Reliance Natural Resources Ltd chairman Anil Ambani is understood to have sought a review of the government's decision, rejecting the sale of natural gas by RIL to it.
Life Insurance Corporation of India, Housing Development Finance Corporation and State Bank of India together own a little over 45 per cent in IL&FS. The deal is expected to be valued around $2.5 billion.
Reliance is seeking help from Shell to rectify glitches in D6 block in the Krishna-Godavari basin.
The company's revenue fell to Rs 67,470 crore (Rs 674.7 billion).
India's largest refiner, Reliance Industries Ltd, is in talks with public sector oil marketer Hindustan Petroleum Corporation for a tie-up to run the former's fuel retail outlets, closed a year earlier.HPCL has issued a limited tender to five merchant bankers to advise it on the deal.Last year, RIL closed 1,400 petrol pumps -- 900 owned by the company and the rest managed by dealers.
To invest Rs 10,653 crore in Venezuela and another Rs 2,644 crore in retail business.
RIL sources said the company has not received any communication from the government to stop work in KG-D6 or any other blocks.
Reliance Industries Limited toppled Oil and Natural Gas Corporation on Thursday to grab the numero uno position with a market capitalisation of over Rs 1,96,000 crore (Rs 1.96 trillion) as against ONGC's Rs 1,93,653.29 crore (Rs 1.93 trillion).
RIL had got the block in an intensely fought auction by submitting better commercial and technical bids than other bidders including ONGC-GAIL and Cairn Energy.
BCCI ethics and ombudsman, served a notice to Ambani after receiving a complaint from former MPCA member Sanjeev Gupta.
The stake sale follows Mukesh Ambani-run firm exiting from two oil blocks in Kurdistan region of Iraq.
In a disclosure to the Bombay Stock Exchange, Reliance Petroleum LTD said Chevron India Holdings has sold 22.50 crore shares, representing five per cent stake in RPL, to Reliance Industries. RIL has paid Rs 60 per share aggregating to Rs 1,350 crore, the same price at which the US firm had bought five per cent stake in RPL in April 2006.
Additional solicitor general Mohan Parasaran talks about the logic behind withdrawing the government affidavit in the RIL-RNRL gas dispute in the Bombay high court.
It executive director, PMS Prasad said that the company is only seeking clarity from government on rates for further investments decisions.
In a surprise move, the Ministry had on October 10 moved a note to the Empowered Group of Ministers opposing a hike in price of RIL's KG-D6 gas before April 2014 even though the company itself was not seeking a revision before that date.
The government has formed a four-member panel of secretaries to suggest a new gas pricing mechanism.
Mukesh Ambani said new projects in petrochemicals and refinery business would come online in the next two to three years.
The development of the constitution of the tribunal comes at a time when the Delhi high court in December 2020 refused to restrain Amazon from interfering in Future Retail's deal with Reliance Retail by writing to statutory authorities.
