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Oil And Gas | July 27, 2013
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Moily says gas price hike key for tapping new reserves

Union Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas Marpadi Veerappa Moily has said that due to the increase in gas price, new hydrocarbon blocks in Tripura and Cauvery basin will become commercially viable. Even the Directorate General of Hydrocarbons has said that a price of more than $4.2 per million British thermal unit (mBtu) was required to make some of the gas discoveries commercially viable. These reserves are currently lying untapped due to the current gas price of $4.20 per million British thermal units, the Minister said in Mumbai on July 26.    

He was participating in an oil and gas convention organised by India-Tech Foundation. If we don’t increase gas prices, then global oil companies with advanced technologies will not come to India for oil exploration. The country will come to a grinding halt due to lack of energy resources. Either we increase the domestic gas prices or import gas at $18 per mBtu, such is the situation, Moily said.    

He said that the Government cannot afford to take timid decisions for the petroleum sector. It cannot be intimidated by the ghosts of the 2G scam, Central Bureau of Investigation and CAG, while taking decisions, he said.    

The recent decision of the Petroleum Ministry to increase gas price has not gone well among sections of the industry and civil society. The Communist Party of India MP Gurudas Dasgupta, along with former Union Power Secretary E.A.S. Sarma, has filed a public interest litigation in the Supreme Court, seeking a rethink on the Government’s decision, which is based on the Rangarajan committee’s recommendation.    

On Gurudas Dasgupta approaching the court with a PIL, Moily said that, He has a right to approach the court as a citizen and as a parliamentarian. We are happy to face the court. All the decisions have been taken in a transparent manner, he said.

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