Latha Jishnu / New Delhi May 2, 2009, 0:51 IST

Policy air bubbles and implementation snags could block plans to connect India's cities to a clean fuel grid.

THE STATE-OWNED power major NTPC is seeking legal opinion on whether to ink deal with RIL for KG basin gas at the government-approved price of $4.20 per mmbtu (million Bristish thermal unit)for its projects except those on which it is in legal dispute with the Mukesh Ambani group over feedstock pricing.

Ajay Modi / New Delhi May 01, 2009, 0:46 IST
Indian gas companies may soon boast their first gas swap arrangement that could slash transportation costs by more than 50 per cent.

April 30: The state government has lost the first ever city gas project to a lesser known Central agency, Bhagyanagar Gas Limited.
The BGL grabbed the project even after the petroleum giant Reliance Indu-stries Limited (RIL) had bid on behalf of the state government-owned Krishna Godavari Gas Network Limited (KGGNL).

Q&A: PMS Prasad, President & CEO (petroleum), RIL

BS Reporter / April 28, 2009, 1:04 IST

April 27: GVK Power, a private power generating company from the state, has bagged the lion

Development works on Pak-Iran gas pipeline project would be undertaken shortly, the Managing Director, Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Limited (SNGPL), Abdul Rashid Loan revealed. Talking to Business Recorder he disclosed that the Pak-Iran Gas Pipeline project would be accomplished at a cost of $2.5 billion dollars in four years.

New Delhi, April 22: After fertiliser firms, Reliance Industries have signed agreements to sell natural gas from its prolific eastern offshore KG-D6 fields to at least six power producers in Andhra Pradesh, including GVK Power.

Ajay Modi / New Delhi April 20, 2009, 0:52 IST

To meet the high demand of power during the summer months, the government has decided to give priority to power plants over the liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) plants in the allocation of Reliance Industries