India's state-run gas utility GAIL is seeking a one million tonne per year (t/y) liquefied natural gas (LNG) import deal for ten years starting 2023 to help meet the country's expanding demand for cleaner fuels amid increasing energy consumption, said the company’s chairman Manoj Jain earlier this week.
Sweltering heat and ongoing blackouts are forcing India’s liquefied natural gas (LNG) importers to top up with expensive shipments.
Gazprom has asked India's largest gas transmitter GAIL (India) to pay for gas imports in euros instead of dollars, two sources said, in a sign the Russian energy giant seeks to wean itself away from the US currency in the wake of the Ukraine conflict, reported Reuters.
Russia’s Gazprom (MCX:GAZP) said its Marshal Vasilevskiy vessel passed through the Northern Sea Route (NSR) with a cargo of liquefied natural gas (LNG) for the first time ever. The Russian LNG cargo was delivered under long-term contract to Indian company GAIL.
Liquefied natural gas (LNG) suppliers are limiting the volume they deliver under long-term contracts in favor of higher-priced spot sales, according to GAIL India Ltd., a major LNG buyer.
Despite the political and social turmoil in Myanmar, South Korea’s Posco International is sending a second deep-water drilling rig to the troubled Southeast Asian state to continue development work at the Shwe gas field.
India’s state-backed Oil & Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) is set to boost deep-water gas production from the Krishna Godavari (KG) basin to between 2.5 million and 3 million cubic meters per day (cm/d) by May this year.
There is a high risk that political turmoil in Myanmar will negatively affect the energy sector, however, Chinese companies look set to benefit from the tumultuous environment, according to Fitch Solutions Country Risk & Industry Research.