{"id":546125,"date":"2023-01-04T11:43:15","date_gmt":"2023-01-04T06:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=546125"},"modified":"2023-01-04T11:43:15","modified_gmt":"2023-01-04T06:13:15","slug":"explainer-gas-sector-needs-sound-regulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/explainer-gas-sector-needs-sound-regulation\/","title":{"rendered":"Explainer: Gas sector needs sound regulation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s gas economy is facing severe constraints owing to stagnant domestic output. While a high-level panel recently backed pricing freedom, issues relating to regulation of pipeline networks also need addressing. Against this backdrop, there are plans to amend the PNGRB Act. Rajat Mishra takes a look at the gas-economy norms.<\/p>\n<p>Regulation of the gas sector <\/p>\n<p>The directorate General of Hydrocarbons monitors upstream operations. It enforces production\/revenue-sharing contracts with private operators. In the downstream sector, the Petroleum and Natural Gas Regulatory Board (PNGRB), set up under the PNGRB Act, 2006, regulates the laying\/expanding of transmission pipelines for gas and petroleum and city\/local gas-distribution networks. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s gas economy is facing severe constraints owing to stagnant domestic output. While a high-level panel recently backed pricing freedom, issues relating to regulation of pipeline networks also need addressing. Against this backdrop, there are plans to amend the PNGRB Act. Rajat Mishra takes a look at the gas-economy norms. Regulation of the gas sector The directorate General of Hydrocarbons monitors upstream operations. It enforces production\/revenue-sharing contracts with private operators. In the downstream sector, the Petroleum and Natural Gas Regulatory Board (PNGRB), set up under the PNGRB Act, 2006, regulates the laying\/expanding of transmission pipelines for gas and petroleum and [&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":[130,195,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-546125","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\/546125","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=546125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}