Steel majors eye Afghan mines
Leading private and state-run steel firms including Tata Group, Essar and SAIL are among the 14 Indian companies that have shown interest in developing the Hajigak mines in Afghanistan.
Leading private and state-run steel firms including Tata Group, Essar and SAIL are among the 14 Indian companies that have shown interest in developing the Hajigak mines in Afghanistan.
The steel ministry has decided to broadbase the mandate of International Coal Ventures (ICVL) by allowing it to buy iron ore mines also overseas.
Private oil companies, which have been pushed out of the fuel retail market because of cheap sales by state-run rivals, are having the last laugh as diesel demand has risen so rapidly that public-sector
NEW DELHI: The government has invoked special powers under the Electricity Act and directed the central and state regulators to implement a long-pending reform to allow industrial consumers to buy cheaper
Coal secretary also said that since the IMG on coal blocks will be required to assess the situation with regard to grant of FC within a reasonable time period, it is considered necessary to co-opt a representative of MoEF on the panel The coal ministry has asked the environment ministry to assess the feasibility of grant of forest clearances (stage II) with regard to 10 coal blocks allocated to companies like Hindalco, JSPL, Tata Steel and Essar Power and send its comments by this week.
NEW DELHI: The Petroleum and Natural Gas Ministry has asked Reliance Industries Ltd. (RIL) to sell natural gas from its eastern offshore KG-D6 fields to steel firms like Essar and Ispat. The order directing RIL to sell 3.75 million standard cubic metres of gas a day (mscmd) to Essar Steel, Ispat Steel and Vikram Ispat was issued on Monday.
Essar Oil, on Tuesday, said it has commissioned a unit that would produce Euro-V grade diesel at its Vadinar refinery in Gujarat. The 4-million tonnes a year diesel hydrotreater unit-I (DHDT-I) “will upgrade diesel quality by treating the sour diesel streams and achieving reduction in sulphur as well as an improvement in the cetane index,” the company said in a statement.
Delays and denials for forest clearances may prove to be roadblocks for 26 developers including GMR, Monnet Ispat, MB Power, SKS Power, Visa Power, Essar Power, Adhunik Power, for transmitting electricity
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Sarbeswar Mishra & Anr. Vs Union of India & Ors. dated 16/01/2014 on the use of water from the river Baiterani in Orissa by the industry and also regarding
Green clearance to coal blocks allocated to ultra mega power projects of companies such as Reliance Power, Essar and Adani are likely to be taken up by the ministerial panel on March 1. Private power
RPG Industries, Hindalco, SAIL, Jindal Steel, Monnet Ispat, GVK Power and Jaiprakash Associates among companies summoned for review The coal ministry has threatened to cancel allocations of reserves held by six companies, including Essar Power, Rungta Mines and the state utilities of Madhya Pradesh and Jharkhand, as part of its ongoing drive against defaulting captive coal miners.
Steel industry worried, points to implications on downstream investment plans, taxation. With no sign of abatement in the ongoing mining crisis that has snapped iron ore supply to key infrastructure
Read this special report in Down To Earth on how government bent all rules to ensure that Mahan forest in Madhya Pradesh goes to Essar and Hindalco for mining coal.
Lack of iron ore linkages impeding steel projects in Odisha The Union steel ministry is pursuing the case of revalidation of environment clearance for the Posco project with the ministry of environment & forests (MoEF) in a bid to help expedite construction work for the project.
The consortium of Indian companies, which has bid for the Hajigak iron ore mine in Afghanistan, has appealed to the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) for financial assistance in executing the ambitious project.
Steel companies are planning to raise product prices by around . 1,000 a tonne, driven by the sharp rise in input costs and recent production cuts. The price hike, likely to be made early next week, would
Essar Steel is facing serious environmental challenges in its bid to construct $1.2 billion steel plant in Central Trinidad. Members of the Pranz Village Development Community are protesting the
Essar Power said it had invested over Rs 500 crore on the power project in addition to the acquisition cost of Rs 230 cr The Odisha government has stalled the process of land acquisition for a 2250 Mw coal-fired power plant proposed by Nava Bharat Power Ltd amid ongoing probe by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).
Essar Energy plc has said that it will be signing an agreement to sell one-fourth of the 1,200-MW power to be generated from its Tori station to Bihar. “A power purchase agreement (PPA) with the Bihar
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