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January 21, 2021: Major natural gas pipelines in India. A comprehensive data with details such as owner/operator, status- operational, partially commissioned, under construction, length and capacity etc., click column Gas Scene.

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January 11, 2021: www.indianoilandgas.com in its column Policy, uploaded this morning, has a major exclusive report on oil marketing company Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd (BPCL) which is being privatised. Quoting highly-placed sources, it says the US Institutional Investor, Apollo Global, during its negotiations with Indian officials, has made an enticingly packaged offer which has enhanced its prospects in the race for BPCL. Click Policy-1 for details of the package.

Free Access column Petro Intelligence is on Ethanol blending conundrum. Ethanol blending with petrol was launched way back in 2003 without conducting a proper study to determine the cost of production and availability of ethanol. The scheme floundered from the start. The government had earlier fixed a target of 10 per cent ethanol blending by 2022, and 20 per cent blending by 2030. But it has now reworked the plan and intends to directly focus on the 20 per cent target by 2025. Will the strategy work? India is no Brazil. There is a glut in sugar markets worldwide. The sugar price realized by Indian sugar producers, even in the protected domestic market, is roughly 12-15 per cent below their cost of production. www.indianoilandgas.com interacted with eminent energy expert Dr Surya P. Sethi on the subject. Click the Column for details.