IOC, Adani Total JV top bids for city gas licences
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State-owned Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) and a joint venture of billionaire Gautam Adani’s gas arm and Total of France — Adani Total Gas Ltd. — have bid for the maximum number of licenses to retail CNG to automobiles and piped cooking gas to households in the latest city gas bidding round.
IOC bid for 53 out of 61 geographical areas or GAs that saw bids in the 11th city gas licensing round that closed on December 15, according to bid details made public by the sector regulator — Petroleum and Natural Gas Regulatory Board (PNGRB). Adani Total Gas Ltd. bid for 52 GAs.
Adani group had originally ventured into city gas business in a joint venture with IOC but it later tied up with France’s Total.
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