ONGC, weighed down by the government-directed acquisition of HPCL in 2018, is piling up further agony.
The Tariff Authority for Major Ports (TAMP) has approved a proposal brought by the Mumbai Port Trust to levy a special way leave fee on ONGC pipelines passing through port limits and rent for a land parcel, including arrears of over Rs. 220 crore.
TAMP, the rate regulator for the 11 major port trusts, had separately ordered ONGC in October 2018 to pay arrears of Rs. 173.69 crore to Mumbai Port Trust as wharfage compensation for transportation of crude oil and gas from the Mumbai High field to the Uran terminal through pipelines it had laid within the limits of the state-run port. ONGC laid the pipelines for crude oil and gas evacuation from Mumbai High to the Uran plant in 1978. About 19.5 km of these pipelines pass through the limits of Mumbai Port Trust.
