Demand for gas from power, fertilizers to rise 28pc

By admin August 13, 2009 11:45 am IST

The Centre recently announced that demand for gas from power and fertilizer plants will go up by 28 per cent to 202.83 million cubic meters per day in three years. Minister of State for Petroleum & Natural Gas, Jitin Prasada, said demand from power plants will rise to 126.57 mmscmd by 2011-12 from 102.7 mmscmd during the current year. The same from fertilizer plants would rise to 76.26 mmscmd from 55.9 mmscmd in 2009-10.
 
To meet the growing deficit, an Empowered Group of Ministers had decided to allocate most of the initial 40 mmscmd output from Reliance Industries eastern offshore KG-D6 fields to urea plants and existing gas-based power plants.

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