The government has set up a committee to work out measures needed to make natural gas available to power plants at “reasonably stable prices”, Oil Secretary Tarun Kapoor said. India has 24,900 megawatts of gas-based power generation capacity. But of this, 14,305 MW is stranded due to the non-availability of reasonably priced gas. “We have […]
The new LNG policy draft has recommended liquefied natural gas (LNG) as the fuel of the future for heavy transport as well. The policy targets to convert 10 per cent of long haul heavy duty trucks to ply on LNG. The timeline to achieve the target, however, has not been specified in the draft document. […]
The country’s second largest oil marketing firm Bharat Petroleum has upgraded its bunkering facility with five jetties that can now pump the oil into ships from the pipelines at the Marine Oil Terminal on the Butcher Island, off the east coast of the port city of Mumbai. BPCL is the largest supplier of bunkering oil with around 60 […]
