India to see 6 GW of wind power auctioned in 5 months

Inox Wind Limited, the most aggressive player in bidding for new wind power projects, said it expects almost 6 GW of new wind power projects to be auctioned in India over the next five months. In comparison, the country added 5.4 GW of wind power capacity on the ground in the last financial year that […]

Surprisingly, Reliance Jio is already profitable at PAT level

Reliance Jio has reported revenue of Rs 7,213 cr, including GST, and an operating profit of Rs 261 cr for the second quarter of the financial year. However, after deducting costs related to the wear and tear of its machines, Reliance Jio reported a pretax loss of 414 cr. This means that on the bottom […]

Reliance Jio breaks even on opg level, 9.62 GB avg consumption per month

Reliance Jio has reported revenue of Rs 7,213 cr and an operating profit of Rs 261 cr for the second quarter of the financial year. Per capita data consumption was 9.62 GB per user per month. Average voice consumption was 626 minutes per month during the period, it added. This is the first quarter of […]

Reliance, Essar triple petrol outlets in 2 yr, continue to expand fast – India Ratings

Private players such as Reliance Industries and Essar — owned by Russia’s Rosneft — have tripled the number of petrol and diesel outlets in India in the last two years, and could double their market share by implementing their ongoing expansion plans, India Ratings said. From practically nothing in 2014, private players including Shell and […]

Reliance Infrastructure in talks to sell Mumbai power network to Adani

Reliance Infrastructure said it has entered exclusive negotiations with Adani Transmission Limited for the sale of its power distribution business in Mumbai. The deal involves its integrated business of generation, transmission and distribution of power for Mumbai City, the Anil Ambani company said. Just yesterday, it said its deal to sell its transmission assets under […]

Reliance Infrastructure says sale of transmission assets to Adani on track

Reliance Infrastructure Limited said it signed an agreement to transfer some of its transmission assets, under the Western Region System Strengthening Scheme (WRSSS), to two of its subsidiaries ahead of their sale to Adani Transmission Limited. In December 2016, RInfra has entered into Share Purchase Agreement with Adani Transmission Limited for sale of WRSSS valuing […]

Adani Enterprises to demerge and list solar business

Adani Enterprises Limited said it will demerge Adani Green Energy Ltd by cancelling the shares it holds in the subsidiary and issuing new shares directly to the shareholders of the parent company. Shareholders will get 761 shares of the new company for every 1,000 shares they hold in the parent company. They do not have […]

Reliance Industries sells Marcellus shale assets for $126 mln

Reliance Industries said it had signed agreements to sell all of its interest in certain upstream assets in north-eastern and central Pennsylvania, known as Marcellus shale. The assets, which are currently operated by Carrizo Oil & Gas, Inc., were sold to BKV Chelsea, LLC, an affiliate of Kalnin Ventures LLC, for consideration of $126 million, […]

Reliance Industries sells Marcellus shale assets for $126 mln

Reliance Industries said it had signed agreements to sell all of its interest in certain upstream assets in north-eastern and central Pennsylvania, known as Marcellus shale. The assets, which are currently operated by Carrizo Oil & Gas, Inc., were sold to BKV Chelsea, LLC, an affiliate of Kalnin Ventures LLC, for consideration of $126 million, […]

ONGC Videsh completes Namibia offshore block acquisition

ONGC Videsh Limited, the overseas subsidiary of ONGC, said it completed the acquisition of 30% interest in Namibia’s offshore block, as announced earlier. The acquisition involves blocks 2112A, 2012B and 2113B. The stake was purchased from Tullow Namibia Limited (Tullow), a wholly owned subsidiary of Tullow Oil plc. T Tullow with continue to be the […]

Natural gas price hike to boost margins at OIL, ONGC, GAIL – India Ratings

The recent gas price increase will improve the profitability of gas production operations of Oil India and ONGC, India Ratings said, while also benefiting transporter GAIL. “Although producers have been benefiting from lower rig and vessel rentals for renewed contracts due to soft crude prices, the operating cost remains close to realisations from its sale,” […]

Petrol, LPG consumption up 10% in India; diesel, kerosene sees sluggishness

The pace of growth in petroleum consumption slowed this year, but private retailers are getting ready to open more and more outlets, Fitch Ratings said. Consumption of petroleum products, such as diesel, petrol, LPG and kerosene, has been increasing at a rate of about 5% in India over the last three years, Fitch said. However, […]

Tata Power renewable generation up four times last year

Tata Power said it generated more four times as much power from renewable sources like solar and wind in the financial year ended March, compared to the year before. This was achieved partly due to an acquisition. During the year, its renewable arm Tata Power Renewable Energy Limited completed the acquisition of WREPL which had […]