RIL gas begins to flow from KG D-6 basin

October 5th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Uttarakhand Chief Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal today said that the state has sought rupees 10,000 crore annually for development-related projects and for the maintenance of Ganga and forests. "We have urged the Centre to give 1,000 mw of power free of cost to us and also sought Rs 10,000 crore annually for the state's development, maintaining the Ganga and our forests as Uttarakhand has 65 per cent forest cover," he said after he attended the first meeting of the Ganga River Basin Authority (GRBA) here.

October 5th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Environment and Forest Minister Jairam Ramesh on Monday said that India is soon expected to get an aid of 3 billion dollar from the World Bank for preparing projects to clean the river Ganga. Ramesh said this after attending the first meeting of National Ganga River Basin Authority (NGRBA), which was chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in the national capital on Monday.

October 5th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The first meeting of the National Ganga River Basin Authority (NGRBA) has asked Union Environment and Forest, and Power ministries to jointly study the issue of hydro electric projects in the upper reaches of Bhagirathi and submit the report to the authority by 60 days. There are three power projects are proposed by the Uttarakhand Government in Loharinag Pala , Pala Maneri and Bhairon Ghati.

October 5th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh here on Monday chaired a meeting of the newly formed Ganga River Basin Authority (GRBA).

October 5th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh will chair the first meeting of the Ganga River Basin Authority (GRBA) here today.

August 11th, 2009 OR judge request for another month for salmon planPORTLAND, Ore. —A federal judge has given the Obama administration another month before informing him of its plans for improving salmon restoration efforts in the Columbia Basin.

August 8th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) said on Saturday that it is in the process of auditing government's gas contract with Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Industries Limited (RIL), but has not been able to access the books of the contractor for about two years. According to the sources the audit of the capital expenditure of Rs 45,000 crore by RIL in its Krishna-Godavari Basin gas fields, has gone into a limbo.

August 3rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - The government will do everything to protect public interest which is its legal obligation, Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas Murli Deora told Lok Sabha in a statement over the distribution of gas from Krishna-Godavari Basin by Reliance Industries Limited. "We have nothing to do with the private dispute of companies or individuals," Deora said Monday in a statement, amidst protests from the opposition benches.

August 2nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Left parties' parliamentarians Sunday asked the government to take over the marketing and distribution of the gas produced by the Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Industries from the Krishna-Godavari (KG) basin. Referring to the dispute between the Ambani brothers over KG basin gas, around 30 MPs from Left parties in a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said that a "national asset" like gas should not be appropriated as "family property".

July 20th, 2009 HYDERABAD - Even as the two Ambani brothers are locked in a legal battle over supply and price of gas from the Krishna-Godavari basin, the Andhra Pradesh government has sought its "due share" of the hydrocarbon asset. In a meeting here with members of 13th Finance Commission, Chief Minister Y.S.

July 17th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Union Government filed an affidavit in connection with the Reliance Gas distribution case on Friday. The Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) led by Mukesh Ambani and the Reliance Natural Resources Limited (RNRL) of Anil Ambani are at loggerheads over the ownership of gas field in the Krishna - Godavari Basin in Andhra Pradesh.

July 6th, 2009 GANDHINAGAR - The state-owned Gujarat State Petroleum Corporation (GSPC) has acquired environmental clearance for 16 of its additional wells to be drilled in its Deendayal gas field in the Krishna-Godavari (KG) basin on the eastern coast of India, a state official said here Monday. The industry department official said the 16 additional wells in the Block KG-OSN-2001/3 received clearance from the environment and forests ministry for exploration after the firm submitted a pre-feasibility report a month back.

July 6th, 2009 HYDERABAD - The national gas grid proposed in the union budget by Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee Monday triggered fears in the Andhra Pradesh industry that the gas found in the Krishna-Godavari (KG) basin might go out of the state, starving the local units. An industry leader urged the state government to ensure the requirements of the local industry were met while building a national gas grid.

June 16th, 2009 Bill Barrett buys Piceance Basic lease for $60MDENVER — Natural gas and oil producer Bill Barrett Corp. on Monday said it closed a $60 million deal on a leasehold in western Colorado.

February 21st, 2009 NEW DELHI - A 77-year-old former Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) professor ended his fast-unto-death here Friday after the central government accepted his demand to suspend work on a hydroelectric project on the Ganga river in Uttarakhand. G.D. Agrawal, a former dean of IIT-Kanpur, was sitting on a fast for over a month - it began Jan 14 - near Birla temple in the capital, protesting the construction of the Lohari Nag Pala hydro-electric project in the Uttarkashi region.