Yogesh Patil · Dolat Capital
partialWhy no CNG price hike despite APM allocation cut below 50%?
we have not increased the price yet, for three reasons. One is, as I said, we believe that there is a responsibility cast upon us to do a little more deep dive, to see what we could do, our self-improvements in our... It pushes us certainly, to now see what layer of OpEx we could optimize.
Yogesh Patil · Dolat Capital
directPricing terms of new well gas: 20% premium to $6.5 or $7.48?
currently, what new well gas we are purchasing through the process which GAIL is running, we are buying at 20% of the basket average price, which is earlier used to be 10%, now it's twelve percent. They are not applying the ceiling currently.
Yogesh Patil · Dolat Capital
evasiveWill new well gas have a price cap if crude spikes?
hypothetically, we cannot look at it, but, you have seen whenever the situation has arisen, on anything of this nature, I think we have seen the intervention. We saw that Kirit Parikh was one of the intervention which we saw to protect the interest of end consumer.
Yogesh Patil · Dolat Capital
evasiveAny talks on excise duty reduction for CGD?
Industry always keep continuing its, you know, issues, which is, which can work well for the industrial growth, business growth. So all that which you stated, and many more things, which are always part of a larger engagement by the industry with various stakeholders.
Sabri Hazarika · Emkay Global Financial Services Ltd
directHow is new well intervention gas allocated among CGDs?
GAIL has been in discussions and in formal written communication with all the CGD companies... understanding what is the requirement of the CGD entities with regard to priority segments. And based on that requirement, the new well gas has been allocated.
Sabri Hazarika · Emkay Global Financial Services Ltd
directDid the new well gas fully replace the 15% APM cut?
We got almost that amount we got.
Sabri Hazarika · Emkay Global Financial Services Ltd
directWhat is the volume mix of CNG vs PNG and domestic share?
two-thirds is CNG, one-third is PNG for the quarter. Within that one-third of PNG, your answer on what is domestic comprising of the PNG component, it's about 23%.
Sabri Hazarika · Emkay Global Financial Services Ltd
partialEBITDA margin guidance over next 2-3 years?
our current EBITDA for SCM for this half year is closer towards INR 13. And while, you know, certainly so, as APM allocation has gone down, it will have its own impact as far as EBITDA realization for SCM is concerned.
Kirtan Mehta · BOB Capital Markets
evasiveWhat spread between CNG and diesel/petrol is needed to sustain demand?
It may not be a one generic number which we could give you. ... we always see both MS as well as diesel. Sometimes we are depending upon the pricing of a state, being the VAT, et cetera.
Kirtan Mehta · BOB Capital Markets
partialWhere can cost savings be achieved in OpEx and gas sourcing?
we are at actually about INR 6 per SCM in terms of our OpEx, which, if you see in the first half of this year, we've actually brought it down from INR 8.
Ravi · Avendus Spark
directWhat is the current gas sourcing mix for CNG?
about 48% is APM, and now it's sort of very recently gone down by a few percent. And we've got HPHT gas, which is to the tune of almost about 30%. The balance is about, is R-LNG.
Ravi · Avendus Spark
directWill HPHT gas availability increase or decrease?
We actually see HPHT going up, or the availability going up for us specifically, and there are two reasons for that.