Price gas at consumers' rate: Reliance
Reliance Industries today demanded freeing of natural gas pricing saying that the scarce fuel should be priced at the rates which consumers are willing to pay.
"The value of a good is determined by how much you are able to pay. It is not determined by how much I am going to sell at," RIL President and COO (Business) B Ganguly said at the World Energy Policy Summit here.
Reliance Industries gets USD 4.2 per million British thermal unit for the gas produced from its KG-D6 fields in the Bay of Bengal. This rate is lower than USD 4.30 per mmBtu that Cairn India gets in the neighbouring Ravva Satellite field in the same basin and USD 5.73 per mmBtu price of UK's BG Group-operated Panna/Mukta and Tapti fields in western offshore.
The company has been pitching for a market determined price for KG-D6 gas after the current rates expire in March 31, 2014.
"Unless that freedom is there for the consumers to choose value, I don't think the market is integrated," he said pitching for freeing the market.
Ganguly who refused to be drawn into the pricing of KG-D6 gas, said "market should be free" and integrated.
Cairn India CEO P Elango said clarity on gas pricing was essential as the sector involves huge investment risks.
State-owned gas utility GAIL India Chairman and Managing Director B C Tripathi too agreed that pricing clarity was a must for both upstream exploration and production sector as well as downstream consumers like power and fertiliser.
Recently, RIL in a
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