Brent crude oil prices have jumped above $90 per barrel, driven by heightened geopolitical tensions that threaten to disrupt global oil supplies, and this could rise further in coming months due to geopolitical developments, said a new report. This comes as the oil market was already heading into a large deficit in the fourth quarter […]
Amara Raja Batteries Ltd, India’s biggest manufacturer of lead acid batteries, reported a modest increase in revenue, and said it continued to face a demand slow down in its key markets of automobiles and telecom. “The automotive sector is facing challenges of demand uncertainty due to social, regulatory and technological changes,” said Vice Chairman and […]
Steel tubes and pipes manufacturing firm Ratnamani Metals and Tubes Ltd said it received a Rs 255 crore order from the oil and gas sector for the supply of coated carbon steel pipes. Carbon steel, also called mild steel, are used in oil and gas pipeline, plumbing and water supply systems. The order will be […]
Information technology firm Ducon Infratechnologies Ltd said it received an order to supply a pollution control system at the greenfield lead metal recycling and refining project of Chloride Metals Ltd, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Exide Industries Ltd and one of India’s largest secondary lead smelter and production company, at Haldia in West Bengal. The pollution […]
Steel and energy company Jindal Steel and Power Ltd reported its highest ever domestic quarterly steel production and sales in the fourth quarter of financial year 2018-19. The company registered crude steel production of 1.51 million tonnes during the January-March quarter of 2019, an increase of 23% from the 1.26 million tonnes produced in the […]
Renewable energy solution provider Suzlon Energy Ltd said that it has sold two of its solar farms — Shreyas and Aalok — to Ostro Energy Pvt Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of ReNew Power Services Ltd. “The company has received an aggregate consideration of Rs 10.13 crores on the sale of 26% of its existing […]
NTPC, India’s largest power producer by far, has invited expressions of interest worth thousands of crores of rupees for the supply of agricultural waste to 21 power plants across the country. NTPC will give a four-year assured off-take commitment. The proposals, invited on Dec 26, can potentially be a lucrative opportunity for entrepreneurs willing to […]
The coal ministry said that there has been a 14% decline in the import of thermal coal by power plants in India in April-June, contrary to reports that the country’s import of thermal coal — used to drive steam turbines — increased during the three months. Media reports quoting American Fuels & Natural Resources, a […]
Larsen & Toubro, India’s largest construction firm, said it has won what it called a “significant” order from HPCL- Mittal Energy to construct seven cracker furnaces at the Bathinda Refinery in Punjab. The seven furnaces are of “1200 KTPA Dual Feed Cracker Unit” and is a part of the Guru Gobind Singh Polymer Addition Project. […]
GAIL, the government-owned pipeline company, said it will spend Rs 755 cr to put in place a gas pipeline grid in Varanasi, Narendra Modi’s Lok Sabha constituency. The grid, which has been inaugurated, will cover an area of 1,535 sq km, it added. About 1 lakh households are likely to be covered in the project. […]
Maharashtra Navnirman Sena, the party floated by politician Raj Thackeray, has started selling petrol at select pumps in Mumbai at a discount of Rs 9.30 per liter as part of a protest against the high price of fuel. The actual price of petrol in Mumbai is Rs 84.26, while the MNS is selling petrol at […]
Within weeks of starting the first ever long-term LNG supply from the US, India opened up yet another source of natural gas with the arrival of the first LNG shipment from Russia. Russia is currently, world’s largest crude oil & second largest gas producer in the world. While, lndia is world’s 3rd largest energy consumer […]
India has withdrawn its decision to impose a duty of 7.5% (effectively around 10%) on imports of solar modules, and this could give a shot in the arm for the solar power industry, according to India Ratings. The move could also help achieve the government’s target of achieving total, grid-connected solar power capacity of 100 […]
Around 82.5% of the landowners at the site of the upcoming Jaitapur Nuclear Power Plant in Maharashtra have agreed to receive compensation under the project, the ministry of atomic energy said today. Out of 2,236 people whose land needs to be acquired for the mega project, 1,844 have accepted the compensation and 1,820 have received […]
Tata Power, which supplies power to much of Mumbai, is offering a 50% subsidy to its customers who want to buy a BLDC or ultra-low power fan. Instead of Rs 3,500 per unit, customers will be able to get four units of the fan at Rs 1,750 each, making the remote-controlled ‘smart fans’ cheaper than […]
Renewable energy player Inox Wind said it won orders to erect wind power turbines with a combined capacity of 200 MW in the third round of national auctions held two days ago. The third round was for a total capacity of 1,000 MW or 1 GW, and was the third of the national wind power […]
The Indian government has awarded all the contracts under the India-Myanmar-Thailand highway over the last three months and the highway is likely to be ready in three years, the external affairs ministry said. “Government of India is implementing two projects as part of Trilateral Highway between India, Myanmar and Thailand. These are construction of 69 […]
Mukesh Ambani, India’s richest man, said telecom was the first of his big bet, and he will now use his resources to solve problems in three other difficult areas — agriculture, education and healthcare. Speaking at the HT Leadership Summit, Ambani said his primary motivation was not to make money. “Money has never meant much […]
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 […]
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, […]
