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Government making consultations on gas price hike

November 13th, 2009 - 10:36 pm ICT by IANS Tell a Friend -

New Delhi, Nov 13 (IANS) The petroleum ministry has started inter-ministerial consultations to hike the regulated price of gas sold by the state-run Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC) and Oil India Ltd.
According to sources, the petroleum ministry has referred to other ministries for their views the long-standing demand of ONGC and Oil India for raising gas price from the current $1.9 per million British thermal unit (mmBtu).

ONGC chief R.S. Sharma Friday told a business channel that there would be an increase of Rs.2,000 crore in the company’s revenues if the government approves a gas price hike of 31 percent.

“This should translate into a revenue gain of about Rs.2,000 crore on annualised basis,” Sharma told CNBC TV-18.

But, he cautioned that it was not yet a done deal. “To my understanding, that ministry has already taken a view on this to clear this price hike. Let’s see when it comes up for the final approval.”




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