{"id":307743,"date":"2019-12-30T11:30:16","date_gmt":"2019-12-30T06:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=307743"},"modified":"2019-12-30T11:39:15","modified_gmt":"2019-12-30T06:09:15","slug":"oil-regulator-ropes-in-icf-for-gas-demand-infra-assessment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-regulator-ropes-in-icf-for-gas-demand-infra-assessment\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil regulator ropes in ICF for gas demand, infra assessment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Oil and gas regulator PNGRB has hired global consultancy ICF to carry out an assessment of India&#8217;s natural gas demand and the infrastructure needed to unleash the country&#8217;s massive pent-up requirement, its Chairman Dinesh K Sarraf said.<\/p>\n<p>Natural gas &#8212; which has far lower emissions compared to alternate liquid fuels such as petrol and diesel used in automobiles and naphtha and coal burned in factories &#8212; makes up for just 6.2 per cent of all forms of energy consumed in the country. This compares to a global average of 24 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>One reason for the low use of the environment-friendly fuel is inadequate domestic gas production and the lack of infrastructure, particularly pipelines to carry the fuel to end users.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Oil and gas regulator PNGRB has hired global consultancy ICF to carry out an assessment of India&#8217;s natural gas demand and the infrastructure needed to unleash the country&#8217;s massive pent-up requirement, its Chairman Dinesh K Sarraf said. Natural gas &#8212; which has far lower emissions compared to alternate liquid fuels such as petrol and diesel used in automobiles and naphtha and coal burned in factories &#8212; makes up for just 6.2 per cent of all forms of energy consumed in the country. This compares to a global average of 24 per cent. One reason for the low use [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,191,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-307743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307743","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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307743\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}