{"id":276533,"date":"2019-05-29T06:26:37","date_gmt":"2019-05-29T06:26:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=276533"},"modified":"2019-05-29T06:26:37","modified_gmt":"2019-05-29T06:26:37","slug":"non-oil-companies-may-get-into-fuel-retailing-govt-invites-public-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/non-oil-companies-may-get-into-fuel-retailing-govt-invites-public-comments\/","title":{"rendered":"Non-oil companies may get into fuel retailing, govt invites public comments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Consumers in India may soon be able to buy petrol and diesel from, say, an Ikea outlet, an H&amp;M store or other general retail outlets. The ministry of petroleum and natural gas on Tuesday invited public comments on a proposal to allow firms other than oil companies to retail fuels subject to a minimum net worth criterion.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, a report submitted by an expert committee had suggested doing away with the conditions that require a company own and operate refineries with an investment of at least Rs 2,000 crore, or an exploration and production company to have at least three million tonne of crude oil production annually to be authorised to operate retail fuel outlets or sell aviation turbine fuel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Consumers in India may soon be able to buy petrol and diesel from, say, an Ikea outlet, an H&amp;M store or other general retail outlets. The ministry of petroleum and natural gas on Tuesday invited public comments on a proposal to allow firms other than oil companies to retail fuels subject to a minimum net worth criterion. Earlier, a report submitted by an expert committee had suggested doing away with the conditions that require a company own and operate refineries with an investment of at least Rs 2,000 crore, or an exploration and production company to have at least three [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,195,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-276533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}