Govt soon to bring in Uniform Gas Price Policy: Moily

28 Jan 2013 Evaluate

To ensure parity in the price of imported and locally-produced gas, the Union Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas will soon bring in a Uniform Gas Price Policy. The Union Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas M Veerappa Moily said 'I have worked out the policy, but don't know whether it has to go to the Cabinet or not. The proposed policy will ensure one price for gas that is imported and that is produced here as imported gas currently costs high'.

Moily said that the gas price depends on the country from where it is imported. In Qatar it is a little less ($18), other countries it is $21, while, shale gas may work out very cheap. He pointed out that India might achieve self-sufficiency in gas by 2016-17.

On New Exploration Licensing Policy (NELP), Moily said that 40 oil and gas blocks have been approved under the NELP and the contractors, including our own PSUs, have taken them. However, defence, environment and some other departments raised some objection and wanted the No-Objection Certificate withdrawn.

Nearly $13 billion has been invested in those projects and is left to the Cabinet to decide whether or not to clear them. By adding further, Moily said that the implementation of the NELP will help us to ease out the situation in which some of the projects are facing obstacles. He said 'may be in June, two MMSCMD (metric million standard cubic metres per day) gas of ONGC will be available.     

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