The regulatory frameworks will be amended to help achieve the national target of 5 million metric tonnes per annum of hydrogen consumption ...

Jain, a 1986-batch Madhya Pradesh cadre IAS officer, has spent more than a decade formulating energy-sector policies at the petroleum and c...

Also, oil regulator PNGRB is working on a new regime for authorisation of gas pipelines that will make it more investor friendly.

Presently, the country has a network of 16,981-km of pipelines, with each having a different tariff. The present tariffs policy provides fo...

GAIL (India) Ltd owns and operates about 11,000-km of natural gas pipelines in the country. It sells around 60 per cent of natural gas in t...

The project will cover Amritsar, Jalandhar, Ludhiana, Bathinda, Mohali, Fatehgarh Sahib and Rupnagar in the first phase.

Only PNGRB is allowed to authorize laying of pipelines and issuing CNG distribution licenses, but the government has issued an authorizatio...

It is also proposed to supply gas under the Rs18,000 crore Hindustan Urvarak Rasayan projects that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has promise...

Govt's plan to expand gas distribution networks to 200 cities by 2015 is facing hurdles of uncertain policy framework, lack of cheap domest...

Indraprastha Gas Ltd has filed a petition in the HC against the oil regulator's order that slashed pipeline tariff and compression charges.

There should not have been any surprise about this order. This is one of the major statutory responsibilities of the regulator under the PN...

Three and a half years after the govt set up a regulator for the petroleum & natural gas sector, it still insists on fixing product prices.

Soaring prices of gas and increasing competition will eat into the profits of companies involved in the gas distribution business in cities.

Petroleum sector regulator L Mansingh has questioned the government on allocation of domestically produced natural gas on a priority basis.

That unity has its advantages seems to have dawned on the country’s regulators for telecom, energy and financial sectors.

To avoid a monopolistic situation in natural gas production, transportation and marketing activities, the government is considering unbundl...

The Planning Commission is at loggerheads with the ministry of petroleum and natural gas (MoPNG) over the Petroleum and Natural Gas Regulat...