On September 23, 2020, the Petroleum & Natural Gas Regulatory Board (PNGRB) has released a draft regulation for determination of transportation rate for City Gas Distribution (CGD) companies, which came into being before the regulator PNGRB was set up. Earlier, in Jun 2019, the PNGRB had floated a concept paper mentioning two options for determining…

SINGAPORE: Indian Oil Corp is seeking gasoline, a tender document showed, making it the second refiner from the country looking to plug a gap caused by low crude runs to curb inflating supplies of diesel and jet fuel, industry sources said. IOC, which does not typically comment on its spot deals, is looking to import…

NEW DELHI: India’s efforts to privatise refiner Bharat Petroleum Corp. Ltd. could spill over into the next fiscal year, according to a government document and sources, hurting New Delhi’s efforts to rein in a ballooning fiscal deficit. The privatisation of key companies, including BPCL, is a key part of government plans to pare the fiscal…

India is considering a floor price for natural gas produced from local fields to shield explorers like state-run Oil & Natural Gas Corp. as tariff slumps, people with knowledge of the matter said. Shares of explorers gained. The proposal being considered by the oil ministry pegs the price to the popular benchmark Japan-Korea Marker that…

Owing to the fall in global gas prices due to higher production and coronavirus-induced low demand, experts feel that the Union government will cut the price of domestic gas by a sharp 17.7% to $1.97 per million British thermal units (mmBtu). The new price will be effective for six months starting October 1. If the…

Union Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas and Minister of Steel Dharmendra Pradhan on Thursday discussed ‘Strategic Energy Partnership’ during video conferencing with Kenneth Juster, the US Ambassador to India, and invited the US companies to engage more intensely in developing the gas infrastructure in India. Informing about the same in series of tweets, the…

New Delhi: As much as 53 per cent of India’s oil imports and 41 per cent of gas imports now come from the Arab region which is vital for India’s energy security, according to Sanjay Bhattacharyya, Secretary in the Ministry of External Affairs, MEA, here. “The nature of the energy partnership has evolved from mere…

Gas for decentralized power has for long held a lot of promise but somewhat failed to take off. Increased focus on climate change as a topic and historically low gas prices have brought back focus on what’s considered a low hanging fruit towards decarbonizing the economy. For the government, it presents an opportunity to inch…

24 Sept. 2020-The CAG also said that as on September 2019, the cost of unfinished minimum work programme for nine blocks is yet to be worked out by Directorate General of Hydrocarbons (DGH).The Centre has awarded 254 blocks under the New Exploration and Licensing Policy (NELP) I to IX rounds for exploration of oil and…

24 Sept. 2020-New Delhi, Funds collected by the Centre as cesses for specific purposes, such as the mineral trust, oil industry development and infrastructure, have not been fully transferred to dedicated funds, the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) said, while pointing out deficiencies in the collection, transfer and utilisation of these levies. In…