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India, Australia form panel for LNG supply to power plants
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SME Times News Bureau | 09 Feb, 2016
India and Australia on Monday decided to form a sub-group, comprising
senior officials of government and industry from both sides, to prepare a
roadmap to help provide cheap liquefied natural gas (LNG) for Indian
power plants.
"I have now formed a sub-group, which will be under
the Working Group on the India-Australia energy dialogue," Power
Minister Piyush Goyal told reporters on the sidelines of the
India-Australia Energy Security Dialogue here.
"After my
discussions with the industry on LNG, some representatives told me that
the Indian government will have to take concrete steps to help encourage
trade relations," he said.
"After the energy dialogues with the
US and Japan, working groups were formed to concentrate on issues that
needed to be resolved at the government level," he added.
The
sub-group will submit a detailed report in about two months on what
needs to be done and the requirements to get cheap LNG from Australia,
Goyal said.
It will include officials from India's ministries of
petroleum and external affairs as well as representatives from National
Thermal Power Corporation Limited, GAIL, Petronet LNG and shipping
companies, he added.
"From their side, Austrade, the Australian
government's trade commission, senior officials of energy ministry as
well as its High Commission in India looking after energy and
representatives from the private sector will be part of the sub-group,"
Goyal said.
The move will lead to an assured supply to LNG
gas-based power plants in India otherwise operating below capacity owing
to lack of gas.
Earlier, at the energy dialogue here with
Australia, Goyal called for investment in India by Australian mining and
energy companies.
"We're going to expand and mine coal for many
years to come. There's no larger market for you than India now," Goyal
said while addressing a round table with representatives of Australian
energy companies like Glencore, Rio Tinto, Geo Gas and Carbon Energy,
members of the Queensland Resources Council and the Trade and
Investment authority of Queensland.
"We need clean coal
technologies and learn best practices in mining from Australian
companies which are well versed in the business," the union minister
said.
He assured Australian investors a corruption-free
environment and quick approvals for their investment proposals, asking
those present to be candid in their views on investing in India.
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