Reliance strikes 'gold' in K-G basin

Reliance strikes 'gold' in K-G basin
RIL to supply 40% of India's gas, oil! - another article
40% of India's gas, oil from RIL!

Mukesh Ambani, Chairman and Managing Director of Reliance Industries, does little in half measures.
He had not interacted with the media for at least two years, yet the Chairman of the country’s largest private sector company made up for the hiatus by spending most of Sunday with scores of journalists from across the country.

Ambani was profusely apologetic for spoiling their Sunday. He had thought he would use the interaction to announce to world the first flow of oil from the company’s oil and gas field in the Krishna-Godavari basin, but he was pre-empted by a leak of that news a couple of days ago. So, he was left to explain the significance of the “historic day” for India. He did so with the same passion and commitment that has brought the first commercial quantities of oil flowing from a field just six years after gas was first discovered.

He claimed it was the fastest exploration and production effort in any deep water basin in the world. The global average is about nine years, he said, quoting a Goldman Sachs study.
There is a huge factory set up on the sea bed 7,000-8,000 feet under water, at temperatures close to freezing, run entirely with robots.

It was “world class expertise that Reliance had developed from scratch,” he said.
He said the production of oil and gas from the Krishna basin meant a lot for India’s energy security. He explained that within the next year-and-a-half, his company would be producing the equivalent of 550,000 barrels of oil a day increasing the domestic petroleum output of 1.3 million barrels a day by over 40 per cent, thereby reducing the need to import oil.

The country paid $56 billion last year for imported oil. Ambani said preliminary studies had indicated that the Cauvery and the Mahanadi basins also bore immense potential.
“We are more blessed with gas than oil,” he said. “That is a huge advantage because gas is the fuel of the 21st century, it being environment friendly.”
Alluding to the telecom model that he said had empowered the country, he said that in a matter of months, natural gas can be piped into millions of homes as cooking fuel. It would obviate the need for cylinders to be carried around, and it would be cheaper for consumers, the equivalent of Rs 116 a cylinder. The current price ranges from Rs 304 to 352.

From 5,000 barrels to 5.5 lakh barrels
Commercial production of gas from the D6 block in the KG basin would start from January-March quarter, said Mukesh Ambani.
Ambani said the crude, which started flowing on September 17, is now stabilised at 5,000 barrels a day, and would be scaled up to 5.5 lakh barrels of oil equivalent a day over the next four to six quarters. This would account for 40 per cent of domestic output. Gas would account for 90 per cent of production from the D6 block, and crude the rest.
Gas production would start with 15 mscmd (million standard cubic metres a day) and later be ramped up to 40 mscmd in a few months’ time.
The gas would be sufficient to feed 100-120 million households, power 50 million two-wheelers, 5 million cars and 10 million trucks, as well as supply fuel for 25,000 MW of power.

$20 billion saving per annum
Ambani said production from RIL’s fields will have an enormous impact on “the fortunes of India and Reliance”, contributing to foreign exchange and import bill savings of $20 billion a year.
Reliance owns 90 per cent of the D6 block, and Canada’s Niko Resources owns the rest.
Since RIL faces no scarcity of either capital, technology or talent, a third partner is not under consideration currently, but a good value proposition might change that. If someone were to give RIL a share in an equally productive asset in other parts of the world, the possibility of a partnership cannot be ruled out.

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RIL to supply 40% of India's gas, oil!

September 22, 2008
Indian petrochemicals giant Reliance Industries Ltd will account for about 40 per cent of the country's energy production in the next 18 to 24 months, putting the company on track to earn a quarter of its profit from oil and gas production, from 5 per cent now.
The total hydrocarbon output from the Dhirubhai 6 (D6) block in the Krishna-Godavari basin, the field that is expected to more than double India's gas output, will rise to 550,000 barrels of oil equivalent a day (boed) by March 2010, RIL chairman and managing director Mukesh Ambani said in his first media meet in five years.
Text: Business Standard

In monetary terms, it is Rs 86,000 crore (Rs 860 billion) a year, Ambani said, adding the D6 block in the KG basin will transform the country's energy landscape.
Speaking at the sprawling Reliance Corporate Park in Navi Mumbai, Ambani termed the start of oil production at the D6 basin three days ago as a historic occasion not only for the company but for the entire country. The initial production from the block was 5,000 boed.

"From nowhere in 2002 as far as oil production is concerned, we are now set to be among the top 20 integrated energy companies in the world. In fact, RIL will be one of the world's largest deep-water oil well developers," a beaming Ambani said, as his wife Nita Ambani, who was sitting next to him, nodded.
"Around 40 years after Bombay High was discovered, this is India's major victory in the battle for energy security. RIL has managed to produce oil in two years - a time other companies would take just to map out their exploration nitty-gritty," Ambani said, looking appreciatively at his top team led by PMS Prasad, president & CEO (oil & gas).

Ambani is investing $5.2 billion to develop the KG basin. This oil production, Ambani said, will not only benefit customers but also reduce subsidies and thus release huge financial resources that the government can spend on development.
The company will start pumping natural gas from the KG basin in the January-March quarter, which is within the broad target of the company but later than the government's forecast that production would begin by November.

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Sensex ends 47 pts down

Sensex

Market loses steam, ends lower on profit booking /Markets end choppy session lower

Short build up trims Sep premium, Nifty support at 3900

The Sensex opened with a positive gap of 173 points but struggled right through the session today as investors remained wary of building up positions. Though the mood was positive at the start thanks to a firm trend on the Asian bourses, not many blue chip stocks were seen attracting sustained attention today. The weak start in European markets rendered the afternoon session extremely choppy.
Stockometer
Select FMCG and metal stocks had a good outing today. Realty stocks opened well but gradually lost their way and drifted lower as the session progressed. Capital goods stocks met with a similar fate but losses recorded them turned out to be more pronounced.
Top gainers
Bank and pharma stocks bounced back a bit and regained some lost ground. Oil and IT stocks remained subdued. Auto and power stocks also drifted lower. After a good show early on, midcap and smallcap stocks wilted under pressure.
Worst losers
While the Sensex, which plunged to a low of 13,917.48, ended the day at 13,994.96 with a loss of 47.36 points or 0.34%, the Nifty closed at 4223.05 with a loss of 22.20 points or 0.52%. In intra-day trades today, the Nifty touched a high of 4303.25 and a low of 4202.40.
Scrip Scan
ACC (3.25%), Tata Steel (2.95%), ITC (2.15%) and Hindustan Unilever (1.7%) closed on a firm note. Bharti Airtel, Grasim Industries and ICICI Bank moved up by 1% - 1.25%. HDFC notched up a modest gain of 0.8%. Infosys Technologies and State Bank of India closed with marginal gains.
Experts' Talk
Satyam Computer Services lost 4.65% today. Jaiprakash Associates (down 3.8%), Maruti Suzuki (down 3.15%), Ranbaxy Laboratories (down 2.7%), Hindalco (down 2.65%) and Larsen & Toubro (down 2.6%) also declined sharply.
Tata Motors, Reliance Infrastructure, Sterlite Industries, BHEL, DLF, ONGC and Reliance Communications also ended with sharp losses. NTPC, Reliance Industries, Tata Power and Wipro lost 0.6% - 0.75%.

Suzlon Energy (down 6.35% to Rs 198.60) was the biggest loser in the Nifty index. Siemens lost over 3.5%.SAIL, BPCL, Reliance Power, Power Grid, Cipla, Zee Entertainment and Punjab National Bank also ended with sharp losses.

Unitech, Sun Pharmaceuticals, HCL Technologies, Tata Communications, Reliance Petroleum and Idea Cellular closed with sharp to moderate gains.

Gujarat Minerals recorded a hefty gain of 14.1% and was the star performer among BSE 'A' Group stocks today. Sesa Goa (13.15%) shot up on strong buying support. Sintex Industries vaulted 10.65%. Gujarat NRE Coke zoomed 7.25%.Phoenix Mills and Gujarat Petronet gained 6.55% and 5.5% respectively.

NMDC, Colgate Palmolive, Bajaj Financial Services, Crompton Greaves, United Breweries, Glenmark Pharmaceuticals, Aditya Birla Nuvo, Deccan Chronicle Holdings, GE Shipping, Akruti City, Sun TV Network and Dabur India gained 2% - 5%.

Midcap stock Moser Baer ended with a huge gain of 18.95% at Rs 133.55. Tulip Telecom surged 13.4% on a big order win. Ashapura Minechemicals, Tanla Solutions, Asian Hotels, Ess Dee Aluminium, Bharat Bijli, Apollo Tyre, EID Parry, Gujarat Alkalies, BF Utilities, HEG and Torrent Pharma were some of the prominent gainers in the midcap space.

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The market breadth was marginally negative when trade ended today. Out of 2666 stocks traded on BSE, 1234 stocks closed with gains. 1354 stocks ended on a negative note and 78 stocks ended flat.

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IRDA seeks status report from Tata, AIG

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RBI steps in to cool financial markets
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Why Lehman went bust and what it means for you

Why Lehman went bust & what it means for you

Lehman Brothers is no more. Merrill Lynch has gone down the Bank of America maw. AIG too could go belly up. With a doubt, these developments in America are the most shocking events to have hit global financial markets. So where did it all begin? And what does it mean for the Indian stock markets? Find out. . .
What is (or was) Lehman Brothers?
America's fourth-largest investment bank Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc has filed the biggest bankruptcy petition known to mankind.
The 158-year-old firm was founded by brothers Henry, Emanuel and Mayer Lehman, Jewish immigrants to the US from Germany, in 1850. Henry set up a general store in Alabama in 1844 and was later joined by his brothers. In 1850 they set up the merchant bank in New York after having made money in railway bonds. So what went wrong?

Lehman Bros, which till June 2008 had not reported a quarterly loss even once, had earlier survived many an economic crises, like railroad bankruptcies of the 1800s, the Great Depression in the 1930s, and the collapse of Long-Term Capital Management in the 1990s.
Thus the collapse of the giant investment bank came as a major shock for the entire world markets that plunged after Lehman filed a Chapter 11 petition with US Bankruptcy Court in Manhattan.
The $613 billion (some estimates put the size at $639 billion) bankruptcy thus throws up the question: why did the Wall Street giant go bust? Here's why. . .

Why did Lehman Brothers go bankrupt?
The giant investment bank succumbed to the sub-prime mortgage crisis that has rocked the United States and the global economy. Lehman was strangled by a massive credit crisis and fast plummeting real estate prices.
The gargantuan $60 billion loss in bad real estate loans forced the bank to file for bankruptcy.
However, the fall of the 158-year-year institution that started cotton trade in US before the American Civil War and financed the railroad that built a nation, got hit by a large dose of bad luck, pride, arrogance and greed. Primarily, the pride of its chief executive office Richard Fuld.
But there were more reason. Check out what they were. . .

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Lehman falls, Merrill sold, AIG tottering. What next?

series of events in United States, including Bank of America agreeing to buy Merrill Lynch for $44 billion and Lehman Brothers' move to file a bankruptcy protection, has shaken up the global financial markets.
About 10 major banks, comprising Citigroup and Credit Suisse Group, reached an agreement to create a $70 billion borrowing facility committing their own money, which could be used to tide over the financial crisis.
Lehman Brothers thought of bankruptcy after it failed to find a buyer and financial media reports said that AIG could survive for only a few days without infusion of the capital.
The giants of financial markets have been shaken up by losses of hundreds of billions of dollars in bad mortgages in the housing markets.
Lehman Brothers began considering bankruptcy after Barclays and Bank of America, the top suitors, walked away apparently following Federal authorities declining to provide financial backup to them, declaring bankruptcy would allow Lehman's subsidiaries to continue to function as the company itself is wound down.
"The stunning series of events culminated a weekend of frantic around-the-clock negotiations, as Wall Street bankers huddled in meetings at the behest of Bush administration officials to try to avoid a downward spiral in the markets stemming from a crisis of confidence," the New York Times said.

Though the Federal Reserve steered clear of bailout of Lehman, the Wall Street Journal said it is expected to take new steps to stabilise the broader financial system.
These steps, expected to be temporary, would make it easier for banks and securities firms to borrow from the central bank by using a wider range of collateral.
Bankers say these financial institutions might need short-term funds as they unwind their many trading positions with Lehman.
Merrill has some 60,000 employees and Lehman 25,000. It was not clear how the moves would affect them. AIG executives were reported to be trying to raise funds by selling assets or infusion of capital from private equity firms.
But late Sunday night, the New York Times reported quoting a person briefed on the matter that the insurance giant was seeking a $40 billion bridge loan from the Federal Reserve as a potential downgrade of its credit rating could spell doom.
Ratings agencies threatened to downgrade the insurance giant's credit rating by Monday morning, allowing counter-parties to withdraw capital from their contracts with the company, the paper said.

more @ http://specials.rediff.com/money/2008/sep/15slide2.htm

Source:Rediff.com

Nifty ends 5-day losing streak; RIL, SBI, HDFC Bk surge

Sensex won't see old highs for 2-3 yrs: Shankar Sharma

Shankar Sharma, VC and Joint MD of First Global rues that the bull market will not be back in a hurry and does not see the Sensex re-conquering its previous highs in the next two or three years. He estimates a moderate downside and sees the Sensex falling to the 10000-11000 levels. He also sees no recovery of a number of stocks on the Index to its previous highs. He feels the international financial crisis is not over and there are still a few struggling names in Europe and the US. He said he has no sympathy for investors of investment banks all over the world. He said that the rupee is intrinsically weak and would add to the concern of capital outflows.

Excerpts from CNBC-TV18’s exclusive interview with Shankar Sharma:
Sensex won't see old highs for 2-3 yrs: Shankar Sharma

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Sources said Tata Steel has paid Rs 300 crore as compared to Rs 350 crore, year-on-year. Tata Motors paid Rs 75 crore as against Rs 190 crore YoY, while Tata Consultancy Services paid Rs 115 crore versus Rs 20 crore YoY.

Among banking companies, Bank of India paid Rs 191 crore as compared to Rs 150 crore YoY, sources said. Union Bank paid Rs 130 crore as against Rs 100 crore YoY, while ICICI Bank paid Rs 250 crore versus Rs 185 crore YoY.

Mahindra & Mahindra paid Rs 116 crore as compared to Rs 83 crore YoY, while L&T paid Rs 170 crore versus Rs 80 crore YoY, sources added.

State Bank of India, or SBI, has paid Rs 1,560 crore as advance tax for the September quarter as against Rs 1,060 crore year-on-year, reports CNBC-TV18, quoting sources. Videocon paid Rs 25 crore as against Rs 20 crore YoY. HDFC and Reliance Industries paid Rs 290 crore and Rs 680 crore respectively for the September quarter. RIL had paid Rs 650 crore in the same period last year.

CNBC-TV18 Disclaimer:This information is source-based and has not been provided to the stock exchanges.
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ICICI Bank UK holds Lehman bonds
Advance tax nos not correlated with profitablity: Macquarie
US stocks extend slide on AIG worries

Finacial crisis: World Central banks pump $300 bn
Rupee posts biggest fall in a decade
Fed set to hold rates steady, may signal cuts
Goldman Sachs Q3 net plunges 70%
The journey of Lehman Brothers

Cause of Lehman bankruptcy Fallout threatens recession
Fate of 2,500 employees? Souvenirs command premium
Rel Cap to invest in insurance
Special: Pink slips back at IT cos
London stock mkt slides to 3-year low

Re falls to weakest since July 2006
ICICI Bank has Rs 375-cr exposure in Lehman Brothers
R-Cap to invest Rs 2,000 cr in insurance biz in next 3-5 yrs
Rel Infra eyes Rs 15,000 crore share in PSU steel projects
Short covering, value buying aid market recovery

Source:ET, BS,BL, UTVi

India Inc pays higher advance tax for Q2FY09, Dow Slides below 11k

India Inc pays higher advance tax

India Inc has payed higher advance tax for the second quarter ending September 30, 2008, according to data available with UTVi.
State Bank of India (SBI) has paid advance tax of Rs 1,560 crore when compared with Rs 1,054 crore paid for the quarter ended September 30, 2007.
Reliance has paid Rs 680-690 crore as against Rs 650 crore paid in September 2007. While ICICI Bank has paid Rs 575 crore vs Rs 450 crore in the year-ago period, HDFC has paid Rs 290 crore. Videcon has paid Rs 25 crore vs Rs 20 crore in September 2007.

Advance Tax Nos. (Rs in cr)
Sept 2008 Sept 2007
RIL 683 650
ICICI Bank 575 450
SBI 1560 1050
HDFC 290 180 - 200
Ambuja Cements 175 200
IDBI 20 3
Videocon 25 20
IPCA 3.74 3.29
Wockhardt 2.5 10
Reliance Capital 12 Not Available
Deepak Fertilisers 20 Not Available
SIDBI 90 Not Available
ECGC 90 Not Available
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Dow slides +4%, ends below 11,000

NEW YORK: Stocks took a late day turn for the worse on Monday, with the Dow's loss ballooning to nearly 500 points, amid increased fear about a collapse of AIG and the stability of the US financial system.In the final minutes of trading, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell below the key 11000 mark and the S&P 500 dropped below 1200.The Dow ended down 504.48 points, or 4.42%, at 10,917.51. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index ended down 58.17 points, or 4.65%, at 1,193.53. The Nasdaq Composite Index was down 81.36 points, or 3.60%, at 2,179.91.Following Lehman Brothers bankruptcy filing, attention turned to American International Group, once the world's largest insurer, whose stock fell more than 53% on concern that it may need to raise capital to cover mortgage-related losses.That pushed shares of financial services companies down sharply, deepening the decline in the three major indices.Updated at 2010 hrs (IST): Stocks slid on Monday as the bankruptcy filing by investment bank Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc and cascading fears about the stability of other major financial institutions spooked global markets.Shares of financial services companies, including insurer American International Group, led the slide amid mounting fears about the impact of the year-long credit crisis on the economy and the profit outlook.AIG, an insurer, and savings and loan company Washington Mutual are among other major companies investors fear are threatened by the credit maelstrom and may have to step up efforts to raise capital to shore up their balance sheets.
The concerns about the stability of other firms followed the US government's decision not to provide guarantees for any deal to help Lehman avert bankruptcy."Investors are uncertain about what it means for the US Treasury and the Federal Reserve to have drawn the line in the sand now and reintroduced the concept of moral hazard," said Phil Orlando, chief equity market strategist, at Federated Investors in New York. "Those who have said we're at the bottom a thousand points ago are probably smoking dope."AIG shares tumbled 42% to $7 on the New York Stock Exchange, while those of Lehman plummeted 94% to 22 cents in composite trading. Washington Mutual dropped 13.9% to $2.35.Dow Jones industrial average fell 299.22 points (2.62%) to 11,122.77. The Nasdaq Composite Index fell 40.18 points (1.78%) to 2,221.09.Merrill shares climbed 27.6% to $21.75, but Bank of America shares dropped 13.9% to $29.05.

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'It’s panic sale, expect bounceback'
Wall St seen losing 30,000 jobs

Lehman, Merrill staffs' future dark
Moody’s, Fitch slash Lehman ratings
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Merrill prunes its stake in blue chips
Wall St model shattered by crisis
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Japan PM, ministers to discuss Lehman fallout

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Lehman effect: Indian cos lose Rs 2K-cr

Lehman effect: Indian cos lose Rs 2K-cr
Lehman-invested Indian firms lose over Rs 2,000 cr

Lehman Brothers' move to file for bankruptcy today wiped off more than Rs 2,000 crore from the market valuation of those Indian companies in which the US financial major has made equity investments. Lehman itself recorded a loss of more than Rs 50 crore today on its investments in India, which is nearly 10 per cent of its current holding worth an estimated over Rs 500 crore. The loss would have been much higher if Lehman had not started offloading its equity holding in Indian companies late last month. In a major selling spree that started on August 21, Lehman has sold shares worth close to Rs 400 crore in nearly 10 companies, including NIIT Ltd, Cranes Software, Amtek Auto, Amtek India, Fedders Llyod, Northgate, Mastek, Triveni Engg and Prajay Engg.

Prior to this sell-off, Lehman's Indian equity portfolio is estimated to have been worth more than Rs 1,000 crore, which has now nearly halved to about Rs 500 crore. Most of the shares offloaded by Lehman in India, including those in NIIT, Cranes, Amtek Auto, Amtek India and Northgate, has been purchased by Deutsche Bank, according to the bulk and block deal data available with the bourses. Besides the 10 companies where Lehman has offloaded its shares, Lehman had equity holding in about two dozen firms at the end of June quarter. These firms include Spice Communications, Spice Mobile, Anant Raj Industries, Edelweiss Cap, IVRCL Infra, Tulip Telecom, Consolidated Construction, PSL, Orbit Corp, Development Credit Bank, Champagne Indage, Godawari Power, KPIT Cummins, West Coast Paper, IOL Netcom, Dhampur Sugar, Prithvi Info, Golden Tobacco, Emkay Global, Vijay Shanti Builders and Pioneer Embroidery.

Source:ET,BL

Mkt,Biz Headlines

Stocks end sharply lower
Reliance ADAG eyes steel foray; lines up Rs 40,000 cr for Jharkhand plant
BoA sees India growth opportunities
Thousands lose jobs in UK as Lehman Brothers collapses
Rupee hits 2-year lows as stocks fall weighs

Satyam Computers to axe 4,500 employees
Financial turmoil: AIG looks at liquidating assets
Rel Infra eyes share in PSU projects
Oil prices plunge to $92.11 a barrel
AIG shares fall 52 pc, debt costs jump

India Inc's crorepati directors' list gets bigger
Lehman-invested Indian firms lose over Rs 2,000 cr
PowerGrid to buy 26% in IL&FS power SPV
Dr Reddy's eyes brand buys in US
Reliance Comm adds 1.75 mn users in Aug

Sensex forms bearish head and shoulder pattern
Merrill Lynch reiterats its 'underperform' rating on M&M
BNP Paribas assigns 'reduce' rating to Reliance Power
Edelweiss maintains 'accumulate' rating on Amtek Auto

HSBC assigns 'overweight' rating to Dabur India
Citigroup recommends 'buy' on Everest Kanto Cylinder
Morgan Stanley downgrads Arvind to 'equal-weight'
PINC puts buy on Cosmo Films; target Rs 125

Rupee ends at 45.95/96
Lehman to file for bankruptcy; BankAm buys Merrill
Maha govt asks Reliance to increase compensation package
Post-waiver, power output at N-plants may double

Sensex down 469 points on heavy sell-off
Lehman to file for bankruptcy, subsidiaries kept out
Bank of America to buy Merrill Lynch
Inflation to come down to 10% by December: Rangarajan
Emami sweetens open offer for Zandu
Bharti Airtel to foray into IT

Source: ET,BL,BS etc