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Rajdhani Express will make a halt in Dhenkanal railway station, Rs 130 billion will be invested for the revival of the Talcher fertiliser plant in Angul district and city gas scheme will be rolled out in 13 districts, informed Dharmendra Pradhan, Union Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister, during Modi’s visit to Talcher.

The government will be signing Open Acreage Licensing Policy (OALP) round-1 contracts for 55 oil and gas exploitation areas.

Ludhiana will get the facility of Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) by the end of the year for industrial, residential and vehicular use, confirmed Kahan Singh Pannu, Director, Mission Tandrust Punjab.

In order to boost its capacity by 50 per cent in the coming three years, GAIL India plans on adding 5,500 km gas pipelines.

Earlier, the government had considered of regulating the fuel prices and imposing a subsidy burden on the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC), if the crude oil breached a certain level.

In the recent global LNG outlook 2018 report, Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) stated that Asia will dominant the global demand for Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) in the decades to come.

In a time when the government is betting big on alternative fuel and is pushing Electric Vehicles (EVs), Coal India (CIL) has aimed to produce 0.67 million tonne of methanol per annum to boost clean energy initiatives. Recently,

Ramesh Pasarija, former Chairman, Technical Committee, Indian Diesel Engine Manufacturers Association feels that an increase in the battery life will be a major challenge for diesel gensets.