INTRODUCTION - Goel Agencies Pvt. Ltd.

We are pleased to introduce ourselves as Goel Agencies Pvt. Ltd. (GAPL) a privately held company (headquartered in New Delhi) that has been associated with the coal and mining industries for the last four decades. It started with trading in steel wire ropes, coal cutting machines, haulages and ventilation fans for mines and other accessories, but with the nationalization of mines in 1971, the group diversified into civil and mining related construction, office buildings, airstrip, and site preparation works for washeries and mines. Infact, the promoters of GAPL built the first Beehive Hardcoke manufacturing unit of 0.24 million tonnes per year of low ash metallurgical coke with 350 beehive coke ovens for Tata Iron & Steel Co. Ltd. at Dhanbad. This construction was achieved in a record time of less than 18 months. 

GAPL and its associated companies under the same promoters has executed and managed various jobs and made exceptional strides in transportation of coal and other minerals handling more than 1.5 million tonnes of coal a year and are one of the principle contractors for Tata Steel Ltd., a leader in the manufacture of iron and steel, for their mining activities for over 40 years. GAPL is a key resource for mining site preparation, earth-moving and over burden removal for open cast mines, transporting, Conversion Services, supply of low ash metallurgical coke etc. 

GAPL furthers its base with actual mining to the reclamation of coal from slurry ponds. Being associated with the Tata Steel Ltd. (TSL) at their mines, the group gained immense knowledge of eco-friendly measures adopted for mining and are well conversant and acclimatized to eco-friendly mining. GAPL is reputed to move enormous quantities of coal in a day to both short and long haul end-users. Heavy earth-moving machinery has been deployed to move and sell over 1.2 million tonnes of slurry from ponds (washery bye-products used in brick-making plants, sponge-iron plants, etc), and fulfill various transportation contracts with TSL from time to time. GAPL has an excellent retail network to sell coal products and residuals of washed coal. 

GAPL has undertaken production of over 1.5 million tonnes of low ash metallurgical coke cumulatively for TSL’s blast furnaces. The group has also been involved in various heavy earth-moving jobs, evacuation jobs, plant and site leveling works, embankments, airfields, etc. for over four decades. GAPL has also carried out transportation for Tata Power Ltd. a power producer for their plant at Jamshedpur. 

GAPL is an established trading and mining organization with good financial strengths and has continuing contracts in various sectors ranging from mining to civil works. It has a manpower pool of over 150 people.

Looking at the growth prospects and market demand, the promoters have started a development plan to get into steel industry. Resources are actively being collected, and joint-ventures being negotiated, to enter into larger mining projects including leasing a mine for private-mining. Additionally, to keep pace with the growing demand of coal, contracts are being pursued to venture into coal imports. The company has added to its fleet of trucks and adding to its transport capacity and capabilities by getting into large and sustained transportation nationwide.Further the group has also diversified into power generation and has completed the commissioning of its windmills of 2.50 MW in Maharashtra. All these efforts should yield in GAPL becoming a major player in the industry in the next five years.

Promoters
Mr. Satish Goel, Chairman & Managing Director of GAPL, aged 65 years, started his career early with trading in mining accessories before diversifying into actual mining and transportation. He then diversified further into construction of office buildings, a hostel, airstrip, other civil works and hardcoke manufacturing units. A commerce graduate, he manages new business development efforts, existing business, vendor and customer maintenance, along with the sales & marketing efforts of the company. 

Mr. Anil Goel, Executive Director of GAPL, aged 61 years, is the group’s operational head. Primarily responsible for the production processes of the coke units, he has been instrumental in the diversification and growth of the group’s foray into transportation activities among other mining and excavation activities. He also addresses the budgetary requirements of the group in addition to assisting in matters of finance and taxation. 

Mr. Sanjay Goel, Executive Director, aged 41 years manages the finance activities of the group companies including administrative works. He is an Economics major who is also responsible for the group’s marketing efforts. He has been instrumental in setting up a coal distribution network for the Tata Steel Ltd. for sale of their excess coal. His financial planning has helped achieve positive cash flows year-on-year while establishing the group as a financial powerhouse. 

Mr. Sachin Goel, Executive Director, aged 36 years, is primarily responsible for business development and management practices of the group. An MBA with a specialization in finance and management processes, he works in the area of finance and investment activities of the group. He has created new investment opportunities for the group by diversifying into new businesses. 

Mr. Sumeet Goel, Director aged 35 years is primarily responsible for the marketing and sales of coal and coke by-products of the group. He has been instrumental is developing new markets for the material both within the eastern and northern regions of the country and is well conversant with the technical of coal and its derivatives.

Jharkhand SSI units facing acute coal shortage

A sizeable number of SSIs in Jharkhand are either facing acute shortage of coal or are forced to buy from open market because the State mines department did not initiate the process of the renewal of nodal agency for supply of coal at the appropriate time. According to the policies of the Central Government, an SSI, which has a requirement of up to 4,200 tonne of coal a year, is supplied coal at subsidised rates from the nodal agency chosen by the mines department of the State. The Jharkhand State Mineral Development Corporation (JSMDC) had been acting as the nodal agency for the purpose for the last several years. However, the mines department of the State needs to renew the agreement between the State and the nodal agency at the end of every financial year.
Source : Jharkhand SSI units facing acute coal shortage

Reliance Power to Renegotiate Commercial Issues in Gas Accord


May 11 (Bloomberg) -- Reliance Power Ltd., controlled by billionaire Anil Ambani, will renegotiate commercial terms to buy gas from Reliance Industries Ltd., which won backing from India’s top court to sell the fuel at state-set prices.
“There are 40 to 50 commercial issues,” Jayarama Chalasani, chief executive officer, said in a telephone interview yesterday, without elaborating. “Now there is clarity on how each issue needs to be resolved in line with the Supreme Court judgment.”
India’s Supreme Court said May 7 Reliance Industries, controlled by Mukesh Ambani, Asia’s richest man, should negotiate gas sales afresh with brother Anil’s Reliance Natural Resources Ltd., which sought to buy the fuel at a discount to a state-set price in accordance with a family agreement.
“This particular negotiation will obviously be highly difficult,” said Abhineet Anand, a Mumbai-based analyst with Antique Stock Broking Ltd. “The key will be the volume of gas. Lower amounts could be a big negative.”
Reliance Natural procures fuel for the Anil Ambani group, which is building 35,000 megawatts of power generating capacity. Of that, 10,000 megawatts is gas-based including a planned plant at Dadri in north India.
Gas from the Reliance Industries-operated KG-D6 field, India’s biggest, is not restricted to the plant at Dadri, about 50 kilometers (31 miles) east of New Delhi, Chalasani said. Projects other than the 7,480 megawatt Dadri plant can use the gas, he said, without being more specific.
“As soon as the gas is made available, we can start construction” of plants, Chalasani said. “Irrespective of whether Dadri is available or not, we can start using the gas in 24 to 36 months.”
Dadri Finances
Reliance Power shares gained 6.1 percent in Mumbai yesterday, rising for the first day in seven. Reliance Natural declined 4.8 percent and Reliance Industries rose 5.2 percent compared with a 3.4 percent increase in the benchmark Sensitive Index.
An agreement with Reliance Industries on supply of gas will help Reliance Power raise finances for the Dadri plant, Chalasani said.
Reliance Industries should start renegotiations with Reliance Natural within six weeks, according to the Supreme Court’s judgment. A revised agreement should be submitted to the company court within eight weeks of the talks starting, the court said.
The government’s gas utilization policy and national interests can’t be violated during the renegotiations and the family agreement, though not legally binding, should be taken into account, the court ruled.
Gas Allocation
The Ambani brothers will renegotiate volumes and tenure of gas to be supplied to Reliance Natural, Alok Deshpande, an analyst with Elara Capital Ltd., said in a report yesterday. Anil Ambani said he had an agreement with Mukesh to buy 28 million cubic meters a day of gas at $2.34 per million British thermal units for 17 years.
The Indian government fixed the price of gas to be sold from the KG-D6 field in September 2007 at $4.2 per million British thermal units for five years. The government has allocated the field’s current output of around 63 million cubic meters a day to priority customers, including power stations and fertilizer plants.
“The higher gas price will raise electricity prices,” Chalasani said. “For us, it is a pass-through.” He didn’t say how much electricity prices would rise.
India plans to add 78,000 megawatts of power generating capacity in the five years ending March 2012 and 100,000 megawatts in the next five years to reduce blackouts in Asia’s third-biggest energy consumer.
The court’s verdict will not affect Reliance Power’s plans to add 25,000 megawatts of generation capacity using coal and water, Chalasani said.
Source : Reliance Power to Renegotiate Commercial Issues in Gas Accord - BusinessWeek

Inter-Ministerial task Force on coal

An Inter-Ministerial Task Force would be set up to undertake a comprehensive review of existing coal sources and rationalization of these sources with a view to optimize transportation cost given various technical constraints. The Task Force will consider all the cases in power, cement and steel/sponge iron sectors where the consumers are already getting coal. The Task Force will its report within 3 months of its constitution and it would have members from major nodal ministries like power, steel, department of industrial policy and promotion, Railways and PSUs.
Source : Inter-Ministerial task Force on coal

Tata Steel to raise Rs 10,000 crore for expansion


Tata Steel plans to raise Rs 10,000 crore of debt to finance expansion of its Jamshedpur plant and to part-pay debt at Corus Plc, its UK-based business. The company will invest a total of Rs 13,000 crore to expand its steel production capacity from 6.8 million tonnes to 10 million tonnes by September 2011. The company also plans to use Rs 2,200 crore to reduce debt at Corus.
The debt will be raised in two tranches — of Rs 4,000 crore and Rs 6,000 crore over the next two months.The first tranche of Rs 4,000 crore will be raised through a 15-year bond with an annualised coupon of 10.5
Source : Tata Steel to raise Rs 10,000 crore for expansion

Coal blocks allocated to Public and Private Sector


The Government has identified 229 coal blocks for captive end use. Out of this, a total of 208 coal blocks (including 61 coal blocks allocated to Central and State PSUs under government dispensation) with geological reserves of 48.82 billion tonnes have been allocated to various public and private sector companies. The year-wise details of coal blocks allocated to public and private sector companies for captive use is given below:-
Year
Public Sector/State PSUs
Private Sector
Till 2003
14
24
2004
03
0
2005
05
16
2006
06
21
2007
04
18
2008
01
20
2009
-
14
Total
34
113
The coal blocks are allocated for captive use and the Central Government does not earn any revenue out of the allocations made.
At present, allocation of coal blocks is done through the mechanism of an inter-Ministerial inter-Governmental body called the Screening Committee. The Screening Committee is chaired by the Secretary (Coal) and has representation from Ministry of Steel, Ministry of Power, Ministry of Industry and Commerce, Ministry of Railways, Ministry of Environment & Forests, Coal India Limited (CIL), Central Mine Planning & Design Institute Ltd. (CMPDIL) and the concerned State Governments. The application is received from the applicant in the Ministry of Coal along with its enclosures and is then sent to the concerned administrative Ministry as well as to the State Governments for their scrutiny and recommendations. It is also sent to CIL/CMPDIL for their scrutiny and recommendations. In the Screening Committee, the applicant is given an opportunity to present his case before the Screening Committee. Allocation of coal block is decided on merits through consultation/discussions in the Screening Committee. Guidelines for allocation of coal blocks both for the use of the Screening Committee and guidance to the applicants have been framed and necessary changes are made in the same from time to time based on the experience gained and the suggestions of the Screening Committee. The same are displayed on the website of the Ministry of Coal.
As on date, 26 coal blocks have come into production.
Allocation of coal blocks is an on-going process and as and when the coal blocks are identified and earmarked for allocation, the same are considered for allocation.
This information was given by the Minister of State for Coal (Independent Charge) Shri SriprakashJaiswal, in a written reply to a question the Rajya Sabha on May 3, 2010.
Source : Energetica-India : International Magazine on Renewable & Conventional Power Generation | Transmission | Distribution

Bidding for Coal Blocks

With a view to bringing in more transparency in the bidding for coal blocks, it is proposed to introduce auction through competitive bidding as a selection process in place of the captive dispensation through Screening Committee route for allocation of coal blocks for captive mining. For this purpose, the Mines and Minerals (Development & Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2008 was introduced in the Rajya Sabha. It was referred to the Standing Committee on Steel and Coal for detailed examination. The Standing Committee submitted its report on 19.02.2009 to the Parliament and made certain recommendations and suggested having further consultations with the stakeholders and State Governments. Minister of State (I/C) (Coal) held a meeting on 10th August, 2009 with the State Ministers of Mining and Geology of coal and lignite bearing States. During the meeting, the State representatives supported the proposed arrangement in the Amendment Bill. Based on these inputs, the Action Taken Note to the recommendations of the Standing Committee in the form of a Cabinet Note was placed before the Cabinet for passage of the Bill. The Cabinet approved the Note on 28.01.2010. The Minister of Mines has moved the motion on 18.02.2010 for passage of the Mines and Minerals (Development & Regulation) (Amendment) Bill, 2008 in the Budget Session of Parliament, 2010.

The system of competitive bidding shall be adopted only for the blocks to be allocated to private companies for captive use. The allocation of coal blocks to Government companies under the Government company dispensation or to power projects awarded through tariff based bidding process would not fall under the purview of new system of competitive bidding and as such there will be no adverse implications for Government owned steel and power companies.

This information was given by the Minister of State for Coal (Independent Charge) Shri Sriprakash Jaiswal, in a written reply to a question the Rajya Sabha on May 3, 2010.
Source : Energetica-India : International Magazine on Renewable & Conventional Power Generation | Transmission | Distribution

Coal ministry may two linkages to power projects


The Union coal ministry may cancel the Letters of Assurances (LoAs) for coal linkages issued to two proposed power projects in Orissa as these plans failed to achieve financial closure within six months of the issue of LoAs as per the terms and conditions of the LoAs.
These two power projects include GMR’s 1000 MW Kamalanga power project at Kamalanga in Dhenkanal district and Ind Barath Energy Utkal's 750 MW (3x250) project at Sahajbahal in Jharsuguda.
A notice will be soon issued to these project developers who have not achieved financial closure. These developers then need to respond to this notice within 15 days, explaining as to why the LoA issued to them should not be cancelled as they have failed to achieve financial closure within six months.
Source : Coal ministry may two linkages to power projects

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