{"id":376245,"date":"2020-10-01T10:47:58","date_gmt":"2020-10-01T05:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=376245"},"modified":"2020-10-01T10:47:58","modified_gmt":"2020-10-01T05:17:58","slug":"govt-cuts-gas-price-by-25-to-lowest-on-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/govt-cuts-gas-price-by-25-to-lowest-on-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt cuts gas price by 25% to lowest on record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI : Natural gas price in India touched the lowest rate on record after the government on Wednesday slashed the price by 25% to $1.79, denting revenues of producers like ONGC.<\/p>\n<p>The price of gas, which is used to generate electricity, make fertiliser and CNG for automobiles, has been cut to $1.79 per million British thermal unit for six months beginning October 1 from the current $2.39, an order of the Oil Ministry&#8217;s Petroleum Planning and Analysis Cell (PPAC) said.<\/p>\n<p>This is the third straight reduction in rate in one year. The price was cut by a steep 26% to $2.39 in April.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI : Natural gas price in India touched the lowest rate on record after the government on Wednesday slashed the price by 25% to $1.79, denting revenues of producers like ONGC. The price of gas, which is used to generate electricity, make fertiliser and CNG for automobiles, has been cut to $1.79 per million British thermal unit for six months beginning October 1 from the current $2.39, an order of the Oil Ministry&#8217;s Petroleum Planning and Analysis Cell (PPAC) said. This is the third straight reduction in rate in one year. The price was cut by a steep 26% [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[139,130,187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-376245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376245","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}