Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited said it won its most valuable contract to set up a 765 kilovolt sub station. The Rs 350 cr contract was won from Powergrid as part of its Medinipur-Jeerat Transmission project. “This is the largest value 765kV Substation project order for BHEL so far. With this, the company has maintained its […]
Adani Power said it will set up a new 1,600 MW coal power plant at Godda Jharkhand to supply power to Bangladesh for a period of 25 years. It said the company has signed a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with the Bangladesh Power Development Board for the same. The plant will be of the ‘ultra-supercritical’ […]
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 […]
GAIL India Ltd said it has started supplying piped natural gas to the city of Bhubaneswar in Odisha. The first phase has started with 255 houses in NALCO Nagar, and will soon be extended to nearby Jeevan Bima Colony and Maitri Vihar Colony covering a total of 1,000 houses, it said. It also said it […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
India Ratings, a Fitch company, said it sees no chance for a revival in the fortunes of natural gas-based power generation plants in India. The country saw the setting up of several such plants, especially in Andhra Pradesh, at the turn of the century on expectations of a gas boom from the Krishna Godavari basin […]
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 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 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 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 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, […]
Inox Wind Limited, which manufacturers wind turbines and constructs wind power farms, said it intends to put up a 250 MW wind farm in Kutch in Gujarat in the next 12 months and will continue to bid aggressively in upcoming auctions. Inox Wind had won the project as part of the second round of bidding […]
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 […]
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,” […]
Indraprastha Gas Ltd, which sells CNG to the National Capital Region, said it has raised the price of CNG by 95 paise per kg in Delhi and by Rs 1.26 per kg in the consumer price of CNG in Noida, Greater Noida and Ghaziabad. In Rewari, the price will be increased by Rs 1 per […]
Oil minister Dharmendra Pradhan today said that the current spike in petrol and diesel price is ‘temporary’ and related to the impact of Hurricane Harvey in the US. “The prices have gone up because some of the refining capacity has been shut down (in the US). It is temporary,” Pradhan said today, in response to […]
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 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 […]
