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Clarity on gas pricing to emerge by September-end: Petroleum Ministry

23 Sep 2014 Evaluate

A complete clarity on the pricing issue for domestically produced gas is expected to emerge by end of September, according to an official of the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas. A four-member panel of secretaries appointed by the government, in the previous week, had submitted the much awaited report on a new gas pricing mechanism, which prescribed lower rate than the price approved by the previous United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government. Though contents of the report were not been disclosed, report suggested that price increase may be around 50%.

The report was discussed over the week-end and the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA), which is now ready to take it up, probably at its meeting scheduled for Wednesday.

Originally, the Rangarajan formula on gas pricing, approved by the UPA government, was to be implemented from April 1, 2014, but was deferred by three months as general elections were announced. The NDA government on June 25 postponed its implementation by a further three months pending a comprehensive review. It was only in August, the government constituted a committee comprising of secretaries of power, fertilizer and expenditure with additional secretary in the oil ministry as its member secretary, to make amendments to a formula notified in January that doubled the gas price to $8.4 per million British thermal units (Btu).

The four-member panel has reportedly managed to strike a balance between demands for a market linked rate by gas producers to make marginal and deep-sea fields economically viable, and consumers in the power and fertiliser sector, who have said they cannot afford any rate higher than $5.

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