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Nov 2021

As Adani races ahead of Mukesh Ambani, here is a status report on his flagship company, Reliance Industries Ltd
8It is still a buy but more because of a correction in the shares than an increase in intrinsic value.
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8There is speculation over petroleum secretary Tarun Kapur.
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8ThyssenKrupp has been got itself a Rs 100 crore plus PMC job
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8Get the average landed price in October in different demand centres across the world
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8Get a project-wise, company-wise capex plans of companies in the oil & gas sector in the North East
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8New director in GAIL has been cleared
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8This is ammonia-urea project that is going to be inaugurated by the Prime Minister in the first week of December
8But when is gas supply going to start?
This standard sized plant will consume a massive 2.4 mmscmd of gas Details
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8Procurement of uninterrupted power supply system for CGD project Details
8Satofin reactor valve and hydraulic system Details
8Procurement of Safety Appliances and Fire Safety Items Details
8Procurement of Hydrogenation Recycle Pumps, along with motor, erection/ commissioning and mandatory spares for each pump Details
8Annual Rate Contract for liquid nitrogen for two years Details
8Procurement of Arch thermocouple along with thermowell for furnaces Details
8Hiring of server for screening movies Details
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8Regulatory uncertainty tops shipping’s risk list Details
8China Gas and Vitol form JV Company for LNG market Details
8MAN ES: Methanol to become available for shipowners from 2024 Details
8McDermott completes net zero LNG construction study for shell Details
8Norway’s oil boom is only just beginning Details
8Biden’s blunder could send oil prices to $100 Details
8Omicron threatens oil demand recovery, already hit by Europe's rising COVID cases Details
8ONGC, BPCL, SPMCIL, ECGC pay Rs 5,155 crore dividend to govt Details
8Ethanol blending in petrol helped India save Rs 9,580 crore last one year Details
8Will issue order to make it mandatory for carmakers to introduce flex-fuel engines: Gadkari Details
8Air pollution: SC seeks responses from government on compliance Details
8Oil prices rise on bets OPEC+ will hold off output hik Details
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8Anil Agarwal's daugher Priya is handling the transition of the commodity giant to a greener paradigm. Click on Reports for more
8Find out how Delhi's pollution is adversely impacting businesses. Click on Reports for more
8Gautam Adani has surpassed Mukesh Ambani in wealth last week. Find out how he is now trying hard to salvage his Australian coal project. Click on Reports for more
8As prices go northwards, this CBM operator is all set to invest more money. Click on Reports for more
8OIL splashing Rs 250 crore in showcase office building.Click on Reports for more
8There is an electric motor show coming up and oil and gas executives must attend to see how much of a threat these cars are to their business model and what lies ahead. Click on Reports for more
8There was a collusion involving a product carrier off the coast of India. Meanwhile an Indian bulk carrier rendered disable off the coast of UK. Click on Reports for more
8UN shipping talks fail to speed up faster carbon exit. Click on Reports for more
8Hydrogen powered ships: Approval for construction in progress. Click on Reports for more
8Understand round-the-clock green energy tenders in India. Click on Reports for more
8A global renewable gas database has been launched, and price sensitive Indian analysts and companies get lot of information  there. Click on Reports for more
8Massive response to e-mobility tender. Click on Reports for more Details
What are the estimated prices of domestic gas when it is going to be revised in March and October, 2022?
8Meanwhile the outlook still looks gloomy for buyers of LNG out of India even as new LNG deals proliferate and LNG delivery capacities open up.
8The price sensitivity in the Indian market is evident from the sharp fall in LNG imports, thoguh thanfully a rise in domestic output has been able to fill in the gap to an extent
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Hardy Oil has picked up a bit of money from its sale of its Indian assets
8But it is not investing in oil & gas these days
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Well intervention technologies are undergoing sweeping changes
8But the business is booming, and it is likely to stay that way for the next decade
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City gas distribution companies are feeling the pitch resulting out of the dichotomies from the gas market.
8They are forced to use expensive LNG to meet CNG demand while the ability to switch fuels have hamstrung its marketing efforts with the industrial sector
8Efforts are on the mitigate these problems, but they are clearly not so easy to solve. Details
An interesting oil & gas posting in an important arm of the oil and gas ministry has come up
8It is a joint secretary level posting
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There is also another tender out for a 4500 Ground LKM (30 to 60 Fold) of 2D Seismic data over a 17,000 SQKM.
8And they are looking for internationally reputed service providers.
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8Big ONGC offshore seismic tender has caused much excitement among bidders.
8Find out who could be interested
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SSP-Sulphuric Acid & NPK Fertilizer Expansion Project
8Cost: 75 Cr.
8Project Event: The environmental clearance has been elicited in September 2019. Concern to establish has been approved.  RFQ for the local contractor is likely to be released in January 2022.
Ammonia Storage Tank Greenfield Project
8Cost: 100 Cr.
8Project Event: Toyo engineering is the single bidder for the 10000 MT double-wall supply with associated facilities on an LSTK basis. The purchase of equipment and services is still ongoing, construction is likely to start at the end of December 2021 whereas it was meant to start earlier in October, 2021. Details
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8CAMC for DHA Analyser and HT SIMDist at refinery Details
8Providing Security Intelligence and Ancillary Activities for Chennai Trichy Madurai pipeline Details
8Piling, civil, structural, UG piping and UG electrical works for refinery EPCM2 P25 Project Details
8Providing support services to Competent Authority for land acquisition and associated works for the pipeline laying activities Details
8Carrying out Central FMS Services 2022-25 Details
8Supply of Pony Drill Collars Details
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8The electric vehicle charging market could be worth as much as $1.6 trillion Details
8Oil nations are selling billions in green bonds Details
8Iraq doesn't have expectations about outcome of OPEC+ meeting Details
8ADNOC to export 1.437 mil b/d of Murban crude in Nov. 2022 Details
8Iran plans to boost oil output capacity to pre-sanctions levels by March 2022 Details
8Dehradun among 10 state districts set to receive piped natural gas lines next year Details
848 industries told to switch to green fuel, says HSPCB Details
8Oil minister Hardeep Puri says high crude oil prices to hurt global economic recovery Details
8UN agency shipping talks fail to speed up faster carbon exit Details
8IOC's Mathura oil refinery gets green nod for expansion project Details
8Congress to hold rally against high fuel prices on Dec 12 in Delhi Details
8Mahanagar Gas Ltd hikes gas prices for third time in six weeks Details
8Vedanta Ltd promoters pledge shares to raise Rs 6,000 crore Details
8India's gas consumption to jump more than 3 times by 2030: GAIL Director Details
8Mumbai: CNG costs Rs 61.5 per kg from today, third hike in 2 months Details
8Does India's EV market growth signal the end of petrol pumps? Not yet Details
8U.S. oil drilling review proposes higher fees, development curbs Details
8Merchant vessels collide near very sensitive marine diversity reserve in Gulf of Kutch Details
8Oil recoups losses from Friday, focusing on Omicron spread, Iran talks Details
8Help oil firms with funds to curb inflation, don't pressure public: Gehlot to Centre Details
8Petrol, diesel price to fall only on sustained drop in international oil prices Details
8OPINION: Doing nothing may be best path for OPEC+ to tame volatile crude oil Details
8Of bullock cart protests, fuel prices, pricing formula and TN parties Details
8Petrol, diesel prices kept unchanged by oil companies since Diwali Details
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8The term of an NFL director has been prematurely terminated by the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet.
8He wanted to go back to GAIL
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High prices are forcing LNG buyers to pool their cargoes.
8Here is an unusual pool of Adani, HPCL and Arcelor Mittal Nippon Steel getting a cargo of 149950 cubic metres via the vessel Soyo, reaching Dahej on December 2, 2021. Pooling is not unusual, but this particular combination seems unusual as per out records
8Also, one LNG cargo that was meant to reach Dahej on December 27, via vessel Golar Igloo has been cancelled.
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For reference purposes the website carries here the following tenders:
8Virtual Reality and Augmented-Mixed Reality Simulation enabled Training Details
8Route Survey for City Gas Distribution Project in UP and UK Cluster GA Details
8Supply of APH assembly 42FP01 Details
8Construction of 300 mtr long dust free Approach road Details
8Operation and Maintenance of Electrical Systems/ Electrical Installations Details
8ARC for Vibration Monitoring Services at GAIL Hazira Compressor Station Details
8ARC for Support Services for Technical Maintenance and Operational Services of Hydrogen Injection at CGS Details
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8United Oil & Gas receives offshore Jamaica license extension Details
8ONGC lets contract to Shelf Drilling for work offshore India Details
8Methanol’s growing traction as alternative shipping fuel Details
8Gazprom to go into Russian pilot hydrogen projects Details
8India's jet fuel demand revives after being decimated by COVID-19 Details
8US natural gas production nears prepandemic highs in fourth-quarter drive Details
8Japan refiners dust off fuel oil supply chains to meet rising utility demand Details
8Cheniere to sell U.S. LNG to China's Foran Group Details
8Ministry proposal to give Mumbai High field to pvt sector "systematic weakening" of ONGC: E A S Sarma Details
8Oil steadies as investors question reserve release Details
8Explained: Why India and US are releasing oil reserves to take on OPEC+ Details
8Govt sets up committee for stable gas price for power units: Oil Secretary Details
8IBA asks MNRE to continue waste to energy scheme with central assistance Details
8IEA urges OPEC to take 'necessary steps' to lower oil prices Details
8OPINION: Asia's crude oil imports to rebound in November amid SPR uncertainty Details
8Air pollution: Delhi's choked roads worsen India's toxic smog crisis Details
8India's gas consumption to jump more than 3 times by 2030: GAIL Director Details
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8ONGC's was meant to give out LOIs for Jack-Up rigs.
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DAP/NPK Greenfield Project
8Cost: 300 Cr.
8Project Event: The PDIL has been selected for the preparation of the Techno-Economic Feasibility Report. Based on the feasibility report of PDIL, future action shall be planned. RFQ for the EPC contractor is likely to be released in January 2022.
Single Super Phosphate Greenfield Project
8Cost: 10 Cr.
8Project Event: Evaluation is ongoing for environmental clearance, and it is likely to be granted in December 2021. A new committee has been formed for the project, the tender for a contractor is likely to be released in February 2022 Details
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8Global prices rise again. Click on Reports for more.
8Europe will see more tightness in gas supply this winter. Click on Reports
8Changing gas fortunes have prompted Abu Dhabi National Oil Co. (Adnoc) to consider building an LNG export plant in Fujairah. Click on Reports
8New gas player emerges in Kazakhstan. Click on Reports
8As the LNG industry jostles for a place at the transition table, Singapore LNG importer Pavilion Energy is spearheading efforts on carbon neutrality. Click on Reports
8RIL's regasification press note. Click on Reports
8Linde showcases cutting edge hydrogen technology. Click on Reports
8Kamdar group (KAG) is one of the oldest groups in the ship-breaking industry at Alang and has been successfully able to operate its business through various industry cycles. Know more about it
8There there is Panchvati Ship Breakers. Know more. click on Reports
8Eneroil Offshore Drilling is into manufacturing and export of oil well drilling equipment’s such as centralizers, stop collars, cement basket, cementing plugs and float equipment, etc. Know more about how it is doing. click on Reports
8LPG terminals face a massive backlog as demand spurts. Click on Reports for more Details
8Project Name: Surendranagar District City Gas Distribution
8Project Cost: Rs 300 crore
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8It looks like NRL's bio-refinery, using bamboo as feedstock, has reached production stage
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The green bug seems to have hit the refinery sector
8Some of them are now looking for 24-hour green electricity supply.
8Some companies like Greenko have accumulated considerable 24-hour green energy supply, this company claims up to 10 GW hour of supply, consisting of hydel power, wind, pumped storage and solar.
8Looks like the future is already here, but will there be a premium on green power supply?
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8Two sets of gas sale tenders are out
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There have been some clarification on the policy of buying oil and gas goods from the Chinese.
8A careful reading shows you can hire but can you buy?
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There is some confusion over the polypropylene bidders list for the Cuddalore plant of Haldia Petrochemicals
8One short listed bidder has reportedly backed out
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For reference purposes the website carries here the following tenders:
8ARC for operation and maintenance of pipelines Details
8Hiring of Catering Services Details
8Procurement of Servo Controlled Voltage Stabilizers at various Installations of KG Basin Details
8Providing of Security Care Taking and Loss Prevention Services along Pipeline Installation Details
8Civil and structural works for PP unit project Details
8EPCM Consultancy Services for 60 KTA Poly Propylene Unit Details
8Hiring of House Keeping Services for Chandigarh Zonal Office Details
8Hiring of services for O&M of Workshop Machines Details
8Civil, Electrical and Mechanical Jobs for development of new outlet as well as modernization of existing outlet under Gurgaon Retail Region Details
8Transportation of Packed LPG Cylinders by Road Ex Khapri LPG Bottling Plant Details
8Design, fabrication and supply of 30 KL Self Bunded Tank Refuelling facility with double wall for Aviation Details
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8The oil and gas industry is facing a $3.3 trillion stranded asset nightmare Details
8McDermott Nets EPFC Deal with Woodfibre LNG Details
8U.S. crude stockpiles rise, fuel draws down - EIA Details
8Shell lifts force majeure on Bonny Light crude exports after key pipeline restarts Details
8Long delays at Indian LPG terminals tie up VLGCs, freight hits 10-month high Details
8Upstream woes dent Southeast Asia's standing as long-term LNG supplier Details
8Offshore gas platform owner to test wind potential in north adriatic Details
8New three-year gig for Shelf Drilling’s rig in India Details
8Many environmentalists back Biden's move to tap oil reserve Details
8EVs, Ethanol and CNG to cut India's petrol, diesel demand growth to half Details
8Oil & Gas Secy Tarun Kapoor, Niti Aayog member V K Saraswat to open ETEnergyworld Annual Gas Conclave Details
8OPEC+ not in talks on pausing oil output increases -sources Details
8Kapil Sibal attacks govt over rise in prices of petrol and diesel Details
8Shell faces anger over takeover of Australian green energy retailer Details
8RIL to restructure, repurpose gasification assets Details
8Govt trying to boost domestic availability of natural gas: Petroleum Secy Tarun Kapoor Details
8India's crude oil production falls 2.15 pc in Oct, gas output rises Details
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Customize Blending Unit for NPK Fertilizer & Ammonia Storage Tank Greenfield Project 
8Cost:90 Cr.
8Project Event: The project is on hold due to the financial loss during Covid, the project is likely to be activated in February 2020. RFQ for the Contractor is likely to be released in February 2022.
Urea Expansion Project
8Cost: 52 Cr.
8Project Event: The proposal for the term of reference has been granted and a proposal for the environmental clearance has been submitted. RFQ for the LSTK contractor is likely to be released in January 2022 Details
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The margins are extremely low in the EPC business for EIL
8Consultancies are far more lucrative
8So, clearly, when going the EPC route, by bidding for the Koyali SRU project, EIL is taking the proverbial leap of faith.
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8McDermott wins contract for an LNG project. Click on Reports
8This major engine manufacturer is looking at turning out ammonia and methanol use engine by 2024. Click on Reports
8This global offshore rig company wins a deal in India. Click on Reports
8Find out why release of strategic reserves had little impact on prices. Click on Reports
8Cheniere Partners produces first LNG at Sabine Pass Train 6. Click on Reports
8Vedanta boss honoured. Click on Reports
8India's gasoline exports rose on the month in October despite an increase in motor fuels demand. Click on Reports
8Get some examples of green energy storage success stories here. Click on Reports
8Latest monthly crude oil production and processing report. Click on Reports
8Why shipowners are witnessing growing benefits of leasing by Chinese companies. Click on Reports
8While gas is being bandied as a sustainable fuel, LPG wants to take its place, find out more. Click on Reports
8This ship breaking company in India gets a pat on the back from its rating agency. Click on Reports
8Disrupted supply chains threaten global recovery, know why. Click on Reports
8Here are a hundreds stories on the shipping industry from around the world. Click on Reports  Details
8If you are looking at Oman E&P as a supplier of good and services, here is a long list of upcoming projects
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8The second ONGC well in the KG-DWN-98/2 in the U-1 field has got delayed
8When is the commission date? Details
Hydrogen is no doubt the future, and cost compatibility with competing fuels is just a few years away.
8What about the gas pipeline infrastructure then?
8Will they be able to transport hydrogen, and what kind of cost-economics are involved? Details
If RIL's Mukesh Ambani knows how to play the game in India, Saudi Aramco knows it too.
8The Saudi company has changed gears, and has already moved on to form other alliances.
8Interestingly, the Indian government is supporting Saudi Aramco, as a counter-play to RIL, and this means the Saudi giant will remain a disruptive force in the Indian downstream industry in times ahead.
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The intermittency of renewable power has put the focus back on electricity storage as the world progresses to a net zero solution
8Long duration utility scale energy storage is now the new buzz word and a fascinating array of new technologies are on the anvil, each more promising than the other
8There are now mechanical, thermal, chemical and electrochemical solutions available, and many solutions within these sub-categories.
8And the number of long duration storage projects is rising rapidly
8Further, all of this will have to be scaled up very rapidly over the next few years as costs decline
8The projection is that long duration storage will have comparable investment returns to other energy technologies within the next four years.
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The ethanol as vehicle fuel is now a global phenomena
8And here is an excellent report on the outcome of such usage
8It is a multi-country study, and India is included in it
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There was no cartelization in the award of a transport contract by HPCL for cylinders
8This is the ruling by the Competition Commission of India
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This fertilizer plant price tag was at Rs 6000 crore
8But the price tag has now gone up by a massive Rs 1200 crore, and this will have all round implications
8And the commissioning timeline has been shifted
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Sulphuric Acid Greenfield Project
8Cost: 50 Cr.
8Project Event: The review is still ongoing in the MoEF, clearance is likely to be elicited at the end of December 2021, RFQ for the local contractor as well as equipment supplier is likely to be released in January 2022. Details
8Project Name: Hazira District City Gas Distribution
8Project Cost: Rs 300 crore.
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8Only around 9 LNG cargoes, with just one each at Dabhol and Hazira and the rest in Dahej could be documented by us for arrival into India
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Oil companies are not willing to do piece meal E&P work anymore
8Integrated contract is the buzz word, where all services, equipment and material procurement are integrated under the contract for a period three years, extendable by one year.
8Here is an RFQ for a huge contract coming up ahead, involving multiple wells and multiple blocks
8For equipment and service providers, including rig suppliers, for these drilling contract, there will be a lot of work ahead, though major tools will be coming in only from a specified list of companies. Details
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