India’s Petronet close to signing long-term LNG deal around spot prices

In a first, India’s biggest LNG importer Petronet on Tuesday said it is close to signing a long-term LNG deal benchmarked to daily or spot prices, which generally are lower than standard rates of such contracts. India bought liquefied natural gas (LNG) under long-term contracts from Qatar and Australia at an average of USD 3.5-4.5…

Gujarat State Petronet transfers CGD network for two geographical areas to Gujarat Gas

Gujarat State Petronet announced that Petroleum and Natural Gas Regulatory Board (PNGRB) has vide its Letters dated 29 June, 2020, accepted the proposal made by the Company to transfer the Authorizations for developing City Gas Distribution (CGD) Network in the Geographical Areas of Amritsar District and Bhatinda District to Gujarat Gas (GGL). GGL is required…

‘Delhi’s Waste-to-energy Plant Has The Potential To Carve Out A Greener Future’: Pradhan

The Indian Oil Corporation, National Thermal Power Corporation, and South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC) on Tuesday signed an MoU to develop a waste-to-energy facility at Okhla landfill site using gasification technology. This plant will process 17,500 tons per annum of Refuse Derived Fuel (RDF) produced from combustible components of municipal waste to generate syngas which…

How Opec can guide its members through the climate crisis

In Dubai on Friday, the temperature reached 40 Celsius, nothing surprising for this time of year. Yet Verkhoyansk in Siberia, north of the Arctic Circle, hit 38 degrees, an Arctic record. This shocking occurrence, in one of the coldest places in the world during winter at -50 degrees, warns the petroleum industry that rapid, transformational…

Chinese Oil Majors Could Form A Powerful Buyers Club

China’s state-owned oil companies—Sinopec, CNOOC, PetroChina, and Sinochem—are discussing an arrangement to buy crude oil together instead of individually, to avoid bidding wars and gain more bargaining power, unnamed sources in the know told Bloomberg. The group has already secured the support of the central government and its first step as a collective buyer would…

Libyan tribal leader says oil output to resume

TUNIS, A tribal leader in Libya’s oil-producing region on Monday indicated tribes there were ending a blockade on output and exports, saying “we opened the oil”, and have handed authority to eastern-based forces to negotiate a restart in production. However, some other tribal leaders in the region did not take part in the issuing of…