Supply of APM gas to non-APM customers: Latest prices

The petroleum ministry has informed the national upstream oil companies, namely ONGC, OIL and GAIL, of a revision in the non-APM price of natural gas produced from their fields in nominated blocks. It may be noted that as per the government's directives, while the national oil companies receive a price of $4.2 per MMBTU for selling APM gas to non-APM customers, such customers would be paying different prices as per their region and the price difference would go to Gas Pool Account. The following are the prices to be paid by non-APM customers for receiving APM gas: 

• $5.25 per MMBTU: Western and northern zone. This will include the states of Maharashtra, Gujarat and other states covered by GAIL's Hazira-Vijaipur-Jagdishpur (HVJ) and Dahej-Vijaipur pipeline (DVPL), such as Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana and Delhi
• $5 per MMBTU: Rajasthan, South Gujarat and isolated customers in Gujarat which are getting gas from identified onshore fields 
• $4.75 per MMBTU: Southern Zone- Cauvery basin
• $4.5 per MMBTU: Southern Zone- Krishna Godavari basin
• $4.2 per MMBTU: North-East region