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Govt cuts domestic natural gas price by 26% for first half of FY21

The rate for gas produced from difficult fields will be $5.61 mBtu on gross calorific value basis.

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For the October-March period, the price for difficult field was at $8.41 per mBtu. Earlier the lowest price is the last six years was $2.48 a mBtu for the period of April-September 2017.

Shine Jacob New Delhi
The government on Tuesday cut the domestic natural gas price for the April-September period to $2.39 per million British thermal unit (mBtu), the lowest in six years since the Narendra Modi government introduced the new pricing formula in November 2014.
 
The rate for gas produced from difficult fields will be $5.61 mBtu on gross calorific value basis. This ceiling price will be applicable for deepwater, ultra-deepwater, and high pressure-high temperature areas, including the under-development fields of Reliance Industries in KG-D6 block in Eastern Offshore.
 
On the other hand, the price of the majority of natural gas produced in the country,