The Supreme Court has upheld an award for piped gas distribution network in Chennai and Tiruvallur districts in Tamil Nadu to a Gujarat-based firm by the Petroleum and Natural Gas Regulatory Board (PNGRB). A bench of Justices D Y Chandrachud and Hemant Gupta dismissed the appeal filed by Adani Gas Limited and others and justified the action of PNGRB saying that calling the bidders with the highest composite scores cannot be faulted. The Board had granted the award for piped gas distribution network in Puducherry to AG & P LNG, in Chennai and Tiruvallur districts to Torrent Gas Private Limited and to SKN Haryana in Kanchipuram district in 2018. The top court said there is no merit in the submission that there was a breach of the principles of "natural justice" in calling only the bidders with the highest composite score to explain the reasonableness of their bids. "In the present situation, when the Board decided to call the bidders with the highest composite score in order to ...
The company clarified it had responded to regulators concerned and that there was no question of a penalty.
Banking counters were leading the charge from the front with ICICI Bank becoming the biggest contributor toward's today's gain, ahead of its December quarter results tomorrow
Other Adani Group stocks also declined in intra-day trade today. Adani Enterprises (down 5 per cent to Rs 219), Adani Green Energy (down 5 per cent to Rs 183), Adani power (down 1 per cent)
The proposed combination represents an investment opportunity for Total along with its subsidiaries and affiliates given the future of natural gas business in India
Essar Steel, Adani Group and state-owned GAIL have bought majority of natural gas from Reliance Industries' newer fields in the KG-D6 block at an indicative price of $5.04 - 5.16 per unit, industry so
Consolidated net profit in July-September was at Rs 120.06 crore, or Rs 1.09 per share, compared with Rs 50.66 crore, or Rs 0.46 per share, profit after tax (PAT) in the same period a year back
As the company continues to trade at a price higher that its peers in the same business, analysts call the offer an attractive one
The deal will be the largest foreign direct investment in India's city gas distribution
Adani and TOTAL have signed definitive agreements to deepen their existing partnership and commitment for developing multi-energy offerings to the Indian energy market.
The deal will give Total access to India's natural gas market and support its drive to become one of the world's top LNG players
The company has one fully operational MDO; two more MDOs have started and another seven are under development
The company also looks to advance work on the Gujarat and Rajasthan geographical areas
The stock surged 14% to Rs 88.70, its highest level since listing on November 5, 2018, on the back of heavy volumes on the BSE.
The stock is locked in upper circuit of 5% at Rs 73.70 on debut on the BSE on Monday.