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India Reacts Sharply: EU Criticism Against Export Of Products Made From Russian Crude
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Russia’s Oil Major Rosneft Pivots To India
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Indian Oil & Gas Majors’ Special Love For Imported Ethane
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Private Players In Search Of A Strategy: Confusion In India’s Petroleum Retailing Deepens With Fall In Crude Price
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India’s Petroleum Products Consumption Recovery Rated Globally Outstanding
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Regulation
ONGC Excited Over New Discoveries In Mumbai Offshore
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Ban On Diesel Four Wheelers In Cities Looks Inescapable
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Green Hydrogen To Enter India’s Ports Sector
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Experts’ Tantalising Prediction: CBM Gas Can Help Cut Crude Import Bill By $ 2 Billion
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Alternative Energy / Fuel
Growing Alternate Fuel Marketing Infrastructure In India’s Retail Outlets
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New Projects
UAE-Oman-India $5 Billion Undersea Pipeline Proposed
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EIL Begins Feasibility Study For Proposed Petrochemical Complex In Butibori
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BPCL To Invest ₹490 Billion In Petchem, Renewable Project At Bina Refinery
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Market Watch
NRL Inks MoU With IndianOil For Sale-Purchase Of Petroleum Products
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RIL-Jio Sells Diesel At Cheaper Rates Than State Retailers
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Companies
HPCL-Mittal Energy Limited
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BPCL Partners With Aspen Technology
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HMEL Partners With NTPC
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Tata Steel Inks Pact With BPCL To Source LNG
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June 1, 2023: Petroleum Products: Product-Wise Consumption In April 2023. Click column Special Database for details.

May 31, 2023: Officially released figures for April 2023 show a drop in import of petroleum products which is understandable if Indian refineries processed larger quantities of price discounted Russian crude, but export too dropped though recovered from the level in April 2022. Click column Special Database for details.

May 30, 2023: OPEC countries continue to be the single largest source for India’s crude oil import but its share which rarely dipped below 60 per cent crashed to an incredible low in April. This is at a time when India’s petroleum products consumption has been rising. India’s domestic crude production has not gone up either. What could be the reason for this crash? Click column Special Database for details.

May 25, 2023 | Petro Retailing: Private Players Fumble With Strategic Options | Recently, there was a buzz of excitement over a news report that Jio-bp, the joint venture of Reliance Industries Ltd and British Petroleum (bp), was ready to shake up the retailing segment by selling premium diesel at a price that would be Re 1 per litre lower than that charged at public sector outlets. Competition might be too strong a word to characterise this situation but the move has a symbolic significance that cannot be ignored. Market circles have confirmed the development but it has not triggered any tremor - as yet. One reason for this is that the difference in price is too small to create a major impact. Is Jio-bp testing the waters? These private players have suffered financial losses periodically as they are not in a position to raise retail prices every time that crude oil prices lurch upwards. Since April 2022, the PSUs have not revised the retail prices of petroleum products such as petrol and diesel. The private retailers simply cannot survive by raising prices alone. Click Free Access column Petro Intelligence to read a comprehensive piece on the subject.
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Russia’s share in India’s crude oil imports soars to 19% in FY23
June 1, 2023: Russia’s share in India’s crude oil imports soared to 19.1% from 2.0% a year ago, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) says in its latest annual report. "In 2022-23, there was a change in the sources of India’s crude imports. Russia’s share in India’s crude imports soared to 19.1   more..


Rosneft Q1 Results: Net profit up 45.5% QoQ at $4 billion, more than expected
June 1, 2023: First-quarter net profit of Russia's largest oil producer Rosneft rose by 45.5% from the previous three months to 323 billion roubles ($4 billion) on the back of rising output, the company said on Wednesday, exceeding expectations. It also said its core profit (EBITDA) increased in   more..


Gas import bill at USD 1.4 billion in April
June 1, 2023: India’s LNG import bill stood at USD 1.4 billion in April, up from USD 1.3 billion in the corresponding month of the previous financial year. In volume terms, India imported 2,213 MMSCM of LNG in April, down from 2,078 MMSCM in the corresponding month of the previous financial year. (Source:   more..


India mulls cutting import tax on solar panels
June 1, 2023: India may cut its import taxes on solar panels and is contemplating a rollback in goods and services taxes (GST) on the devices to address the shortfall in local output amid rising demand for renewable energy. The Ministry of New & Renewable Energy has conducted discussions with the Ministry   more..


Petchem expansion back on radar for India’s MRPL
June 1, 2023: Indian state-controlled refiner Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals (MRPL) is going ahead with plans to expand its petrochemical business, ONGC chairman Arun Kumar Singh said. State-controlled upstream firm ONGC is MRPL's main shareholder with a 72pc stake, followed by state-controlled   more..


Confidence Petroleum India Ltd commissions 16 new Auto LPG stations
June 1, 2023: Confidence Petroleum India Limited has commissioned 16 new Auto LPG Dispensing Stations (ALDS) to cater green fuel requirement of cars and auto rikshaws. With this 16 new locations the strength of our ALDS stations has reached to 235. Furthermore company's CNG retailing division in Bangalore   more..


India’s renewable energy capacity addition expected to improve to 20 GW in FY24: ICRA
June 1, 2023: India’s renewable energy capacity addition is expected to improve to 20 gigawatt (GW) in the financial year 2023-24 (FY24) from 15 GW in FY23, ratings agency ICRA said in its recent press release. It added that a scale-up in tendering activity and cost reflective tariffs will be key to   more..


Ajay Yadav, IAS appointed as Managing Director of SECI
June 1, 2023: Ajay Yadav, IAS has assumed the charge of Managing Director, Solar Energy Corporation of India Limited (SECI) from w.e.f 31st May 2023. (Source: PSU watch)    more..

Petropulse / Guest Column
Impact of Ukraine war on International LNG trade. Lessons for India
by Dr Bhamy Shenoy Bhamy ShenoyRussian-Ukraine war has brought about dramatic changes in international gas and oil sector because of the oil embargo by the west and gas more...

IOG Exclusive
Glut In US Crude Pushes Down Price : Indian Wrestling With Options.
On Friday oil prices went down by 5 per cent. WTI $67.50/barrel; Brent 76.40/barrel. This difference between WTI and Brent is confusing. Normally Brent should only be about $2 costlier at most. According to market experts, the lower WTI price has to do with a glut of production in the US and lack of more...

IOC steps into Oman with acquisition
Indian Oil Corp (IOC), the country's largest Oil Marketing Company (OMC), recently acquired global major’s Shell's stake (of 17 percent) in the Makhaizna oilfield in Oman for more...

Some good news for the Indian partners from Mozambique
The Mozambique project in which Indian firms ONGC Videsh Ltd (OVL) and Bharat Petro Resources Ltd (BPRL) have a stake has seen some positive news of late. Anadarko Petroleum’s, (the operator) plan to export LNG from Mozambique’s Rovuma Basin through its two trains moved closer to achieving the crucial Final more...

Visit of Iranian President opens a sliver of hope for Farzad-B deal?
The Indian side seems to be making one last concerted effort to revive the proposed Indian investment to develop the large Farzad-B field in Iran during the forthcoming visit of the Iranian President Hassan Rouhani to India. The field was discovered by the Indian consortium of ONGC Videsh (OVL), Oil India Ltd (OIL) and Indian more...

Indian PSUs to Aggressively Pursue EOR/IOR Projects
Faced with declining production from its ageing fields and encouraged by the scheme of incentives in the newly announced EOR (Enhanced Oil Recovery) policy, ONGC and Oil India Ltd (OIL) are preparing to enhance their investment in EOR projects. There has been no major commercial oil or gas discovery in India more...

Iran Announces Deals With Countries, No mention Of India
A senior Iranian oil official has indicated that his country was looking to sign big deals with companies from Russia, Europe, China etc- but there was no mention of India. Iran was also looking to sign large deals with Japanese, Chinese and Korean companies for upgrading some of its refineries. This development where India more...

ONGC’s Search For Producing Assets
In recent times, there has been considerable noise generated about the Government’s proposal to allow private sector firms to take equity stake in the blocks earlier given to the flagship PSU firms on a nomination basis. This was ostensibly to help increase production from these fields, as it was felt that the private more...

CERA Week sees plenty of action
There was plenty of action at the CERA Week held in New Delhi over the past few days. It was firstly in itself notable that this forum was held in India, being normally held in Houston. In fact, the Indian Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Dharmendra Pradhan emphasized as much and also felt that going forward, the conclave more...

Hydrocarbon Re-assessment Exercise Progressing As Scheduled
The multi-organisation team comprising Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC), Oil India Ltd (OIL) and Directorate General of Hydrocarbons (DGH) has been carrying out the exercise of reassessing hydrocarbon resources in the country. According to official sources, as on March 31, 2017, the team has completed more...

Special Reports
Can LNG replace Russian gas in Europe?
European LNG imports reached a record high in January 2022 and could go a little higher if Russian pipeline gas supply falls, or even stops completely. But the best-connected European LNG terminals are already running at high rates, and limits to cross-border pipeline gas capacity would restrict the wider benefit of higher imports into some... more...

Importance Of Offshore Wind Power
Offshore wind power market plays an important role in achieving the renewable target in most countries, but not in India. India needs a clear, time-bound, quantitative target for offshore wind development, and a roadmap of how to achieve it, says the Baroda-based Centre for Fuel Studies and Research, Click more...

Future Power Grid Vision - Grid Of Microgrids
The electric grid has been around for nearly 140 years, but it’s yet to overcome its biggest nemesis: the weather. Recent prolonged blackout in Texas (Snow storm) is showcasing that point as it suddenly rivals California (Forest wildfires) in proving the need for microgrids. Sustainable energy is the sustainable more...

Future of India’s transport story is renewable biogas
Vinod Paremalby Vinod Paremal | Biogas extracted from waste/bio-mass help India cut its dependency to import oil for meeting its needs. Petrol and diesel more...

Time for Introspection and redefining wealth and the basis for economic planning
Over emphasis on Gross Domestic Product (GDP) without taking into account the impact to Mother Earth’s Ecological systems (resource abuse) and consideration of equanimity for all has already shown the ill effects all around the world. And worse still is the fact that the sinner does not necessarily pay the price but more...

Views
Speech of Former Petroleum Secretary, T.S. Vijayaraghavan, on Indias Petroleum Sector
Demand & Growth: India's Crude Oil demand has risen from 0.65 Million Barrels a day in 1980 to 3.7 Million barrels and will reach 4 Million by 2016. Internal production is now less than 0.8 Million Barrels a day. It more...

The KG basin price hike socialises costs and privatises profits
Why the Rangarajan Committee's complex pricing formula will inflict heavy burdens on the power and fertiliser sectors and give a private gas producer windfall profits? The ministry of petroleum and natural gas has proposed to increase the price of natural gas from the Krishna Godavari (KG) more...

Fire From Ice: A Promising New Energy Source
Massive imports of oil and natural gas have exacerbated India’s big trade deficit, which is a hurdle to the acceleration of economic growth. Light at the end of the tunnel comes from a technological breakthrough last week by JOGMEC (Japan Oil Gas and Metals National Corporation). It succeeded in extracting natural gas more...

The Diesel Subsidy Hole
Under-recovery on diesel as per the Indian petroleum ministry website was . 10.94 a litre in February 2012 when the procurement price was . 37.80 per litre ($122.06 a barrel). The diesel under-recoveries are expected to exceed . 750 billion at average price of $95.66 a barrel while total annual shortfall due to fuel subsidies more...

Personalities
L&T Appoints Company Veteran S N Subrahmanyan As CMD
S.N. SubrahmanyanThe Board of Directors of Larsen & Toubro has appointed S N Subrahmanyan as Chairman and Managing Director with effect from October 1, 2023. He is currently the Chief Executive Officer and more...

AK Jain Appointed PNGRB Chairman
A.K. JainThe Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) has approved the appointment of A.K. Jain as the new chairman of the Petroleum & Natural Gas Regulatory Board (PNGRB). Jain has been appointed as the more...

GAIL Announces Appointment Of Govt Nominee Directors On Its Board
GAIL (India) Limited has announced the appointment of Praveen Mal Khanooja and Kushagra Mittal as Govt Nominee Directors on its board. They have been appointed on GAIL board with effect from May 16 for a period of three years on co-terminus basis or until further orders, whichever is earlier. Khanooja is serving as Additional more...

Govt. Names Ravneet Kaur As Chairperson Of Competition Commission Of India
Ravneet KaurThe government has named Ravneet Kaur as the Chairperson of antitrust body, Competition Commission of India (CCI). The appointment of Ravneet Kaur, a 1988 Punjab cadre IAS officer, will be for a period more...

Indian Petro Scene - In a Nutshell
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Petro Retailing: Private Players Fumble With Strategic Options
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Saudi-India relations: The winds of change
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Crude From Russia; Gas From The US
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Cry Freedom From Crazy, Cryogenic Ideas
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Foreign Investment
SC Appointed Committee Finds No Evidence Against TotalEnergies JV Partner
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Japan To Fund Renewable Energy Projects
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Overseas Investment
BPCL Agrees To Match Brazilian Companies’ Bids For Two Videocon Oil Assets
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ONGC, Oil India In Talks For 50% Stake In Kenya Oilfield
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Gas Scene
LPG Consumption Growth Looks Halted
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Sector-Wise Consumption Of Natural Gas Continued Same Pattern In FY 2022-23
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Unimpressive Domestic Natural Gas Scene Of FY 23
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LPG Consumption Growth Slows Down In FY ‘23
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Sectoral Consumption Of Natural Gas
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History of India’s Growing Gas Import Dependency
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Expanding CGD Infrastructure in India
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Sector-wise Consumption Of Natural Gas In February, April-February 2023
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Domestic Natural Gas Scene in February 2023
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Indian Oil Corporation Moves Towards Natural Gas
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Sectoral Consumption of Natural Gas In January 2023
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Unimpressive Domestic Natural Gas Production Scene
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Latest Liquefied Petroleum Gas Profile
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Natural Gas Price Trends: Global, Domestic
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The widening CGD Infrastructure
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Petroleum Products: Product-Wise Consumption In April 2023
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India’s Petroleum Products Import, Export Drop In April 2023
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OPEC Share In India’s Crude Oil Import Crashes To 48.6% In April
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Analysis Of Crude Oil Processed By Indian Refineries in April 2023
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Domestic Share In Petroleum Products Produced Touches A New Low In April
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India’s Crude Oil Import Bill Touches a New High
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Indian Oil Corporation’s Pipeline Network Expansion
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BPCL Remains Committed to Widen Its Upstream Global Spread
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Moderate Increase In Refinery Margins In Trading Hubs, Largest In Rotterdam
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Global Natural Gas Price Continues Its Journey In Reverse Gear
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How Prices Moved In Indian Crude Basket In April?
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Product-wise Consumption Trend Analysis In FY 2022-23
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Product-wise Consumption of Petroleum Products in March 2023
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India’s Petroleum Products Export Drops, Import Up in FY 2022-23
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Analysis Of Type Crude Oil Processed in India in FY 2022-23
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India’s Crude oil Import Bill $158.3 Billion in FY 23, OPEC Share Down, Russia’s shoots Up
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All Domestic Producers Fail To Achieve Crude Production Targets
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Share of Domestic Crude in Total Petroleum Products Consumed Touches A New Low
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Total Crude Processed Far Exceeds India’s Installed Refining Capacity
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Quantity of High Sulphur Crude Processed Reaches A New High
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Oil & Gas PSUs Exceed Capital Expenditure Target In FY 2022-23
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