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.
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.
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
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.
The stake sale follows Mukesh Ambani-run firm exiting from two oil blocks in Kurdistan region of Iraq.
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.
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).
The government has formed a four-member panel of secretaries to suggest a new gas pricing mechanism.
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.
The windfall taxes on domestic crude oil production and fuel exports will generate close to $12 billion (Rs 94,800 crore) for the government in the remainder of the current fiscal while trimming profits of firms such as Reliance Industries Ltd and ONGC, Moody's Investors Service said Tuesday. On July 1, the government imposed windfall gain taxes on the export of petrol, diesel and aviation turbine fuel (ATF), and on the domestic production of crude oil. It has also mandated exporters to meet the requirements of the domestic market first.
It executive director, PMS Prasad said that the company is only seeking clarity from government on rates for further investments decisions.
ITC was the top loser in the Sensex pack, shedding nearly 3 per cent, followed by Bajaj Finance, Kotak Bank, Bharti Airtel and Reliance Industries. Nifty fell 43.35 points to 17,324.90.
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.
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.
Mukesh Ambani said new projects in petrochemicals and refinery business would come online in the next two to three years.
The proposed reorganisation plan by Reliance Industries Ltd to transfer its refining, marketing and petrochemical (oil-to-chemicals) businesses to a wholly-owned subsidiary is a step towards facilitating participation by strategic investors in the unit, Fitch Ratings said on Tuesday. The reorganisation of the business in Reliance O2C Limited (O2C) "will have a neutral impact on RIL's credit metrics and rating," it said in a statement. The transfer will be on a "slump sale basis", subject to attaining the requisite approvals.
The company will unfold its business plans going forward even as shareholders are seeking answers to the performance of the company's oil and gas exploration and production business.
RIL in August submitted a revised field development plan for the Dhirubhai-1 & 3, the only producing gas fields among a total of 18 gas discoveries made so far in the KG-D6 block in Bay of Bengal, sources with direct knowledge of the development said.
Also, the combination of a new entrant and new technology is not necessarily good.
Corporate giant Reliance Industries Ltd has stopped lobbying with US lawmakers for the last two quarters, while the Indian government incurred an expense of Rs 3.7 crore (Rs 37 million) for such activities during the last financial year ended March 31, 2012.
Talks under way for partnership model to provide last-mile connectivity to 4G users.
The JV was established for development of SEZs/Model Economic Township project and other infrastructure facilities in Haryana.
In what could be a prelude to Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group claiming damages against Mukesh Ambani-controlled Reliance Industries for allegedly derailing the merger talks with South Africa's MTN group
Dow Chemicals' acquisition of the Indian born billionnaire Raaj L Gupta headed speciality chemical company Rom and Haas for over $18 billion, is likely to impact its proposed joint venture with Reliance Industries (RIL) and expansion plans in India worth over $100 million.
It is shut due to high water and sand ingress and it awaits regulatory nod to carry out urgent workover.
Mukesh Ambani-controlled Reliance Industries is all set to shelve midway its ongoing share buyback programme -- which was opposed from the very beginning by younger Ambani scion Anil -- in the wake of the two reaching a settlement.
Consulting, other contracts may mean listing agreement violation.
Market benchmark Sensex tumbled over 323 points after an intense last-hour sell-off on Wednesday, triggered by losses mainly in index heavyweights Infosys, Reliance and HDFC.
Led by Tata Motors and Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), the combined revenue of the Tata group's listed firms crossed the Rs 10-trillion mark for the first time, in 2022-23. The group's 14 key listed companies in which Tata Sons holds a direct equity stake reported a combined revenue of Rs 10.07 trillion in FY23, up 15.3 per cent from Rs 8.73 trillion in FY22. The combined net profit of these companies was, however, down 10.6 per cent year-on-year (YoY) at Rs 66,670 crore in FY23, from a record high of Rs 74,540 crore in the previous financial year, when the profit had jumped 156 per cent YoY, aided by Tata Steel's strong showing.
Reliance Industries on Tuesday toppled state-run oil major ONGC to become the country's second most valued firm after TCS.
Benchmark stock indices Sensex and Nifty rebounded from early lows to close over 1 per cent higher on Tuesday, helped by heavy buying in index heavyweight Reliance Industries, Infosys and TCS amid gains in global equities. The 30-share BSE Sensex closed up by 696.81 points or 1.22 per cent at 57,989.30. It touched a high of 58,052.87 and a low of 56,930.30 in intra-day trade.
"We had identified 10 countries for setting up the mega petrochemical plant. A working group (of GAIL and RIL) will shortlist three of the identified countries. We may then narrow on one or two for setting up of the mega petrochemical plant," GAIL Chairman and Managing Director U D Choubey told reporters. He, however, refused to name the 10 countries identified for the purpose.
The combined market-cap of all listed Adani group firms has plunged nearly Rs 7.11 trillion since January 24 when the Hindenburg report was made public.
RIL signed agreement to take 45 per cent interest in highly prospective Eagle Ford Shale play, the Mumbai-based firm and Pioneer said in separate but almost identical statements.
After grappling with the issue for two years, the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas had on November 21 ordered that the margin to be charged, over and above the gas sale price, should be fixed between the seller and buyers in all sectors other than urea and LPG.
Mukesh Ambani-controlled Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) is planning to spend $3 billion for a new petrochemical complex at Jamnagar.The new complex will utilise residual gases generated from the two existing refineries, of which one is located in a special economic zone (SEZ), to generate further downstream products."The investment could be in the range of $3 billion, depending on raw material prices," said a Reliance official on condition of anonymity.
RIL has sent a draft GSPA to Essar Oil and the contract may be inked within the next few days.
RIL has so far drilled six wells on the MA oilfield, the only oil discovery among the 19 oil and gas finds the company had made in the eastern offshore KG-DWN-98/3 or KG-D6 block.
