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Oil & Natural Gas Corp shut down gas processing units at Uran, Hazira and Gandhar stopping natural gas supplies from the country's largest Mumbai High and western offshore fields. , thereby forcing a shutdown of GAIL India Ltd's Hazira-Bijaipur-Jagdishpur gas pipeline.
"Gas supply pressure from ONGC fields started reducing from 0230 hrs and came to a grinding halt at 0600 hrs, forcing us to cut supplies on HBJ," GAIL Chairman UD Choubey said.
The ONGC shutdown also stopped most of the gas supplies from privately operated Panna/Mukta and Tapti fields as the fuel from these passes through its processing units and pipelines. Only 1.5 million standard cubic meters per day out of 18 MSCMD was being supplied.
Sources said that fertiliser plants along the HBJ had been closed or were in the process of closing while power plants getting gas from the same pipeline had brought down the plant load to one-third. "By evening, these would have shut down fully," they said.
Operations at four refineries were also hit with Haldia unit going off while Panipat, Mathura and Koyali refineries under a cooling down process. This would affect the petroleum products availability after a lag as processed products stored at refineries' large tanks would be available for retail outlets for some time.
However, aviation services and fuel supplies continue to be normal despite the strike that began at 0600 hours. "Aviation services are working normally. Our petrol pumps are also operating normally," Indian Oil Corp Chairman Sarthak Behuria, whose company accounts half of market sales, said.
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I wanna know when the pay revision will ocuur with the ministers taking a lot of time to solve this issue and the elections are coming in april.The oil sector officers have been humiliated like any thing during the strike for genuine demand of a compensation package. Morale has been murdered by the media, which shall take a decade to heal. I hope the group of ministers consider the salary package of other oil sectors globally and finalise a honorable package. I would request they should see the salary survey data of SPE and Rigzone and decide how poorly we are paid.
Pay revision was due wef 01/01/2007. pay revision proposed by govt is not even upto Justice Rao Comitee appointed by the govt for the same. The situation came to this stage only due to improper handling and misinformation by govt.
I wanna know when the pay revision will ocuur with the ministers taking a lot of time to solve this issue and the elections are coming in april.The oil sector officers have been humiliated like any thing during the strike for genuine demand of a compensation package. Morale has been murdered by the media, which shall take a decade to heal. I hope the group of ministers consider the salary package of other oil sectors globally and finalise a honorable package. I would request they should see the salary survey data of SPE and Rigzone and decide how poorly we are paid.
Dear readers (specially you Mr Guha), Officers who have gone on strike are not babus.What the oil psu staff are asking for is their own hard earned money.It has nothing to do with the common taxpayer. Petroleum ministry is treating oil psu management staff like bandhua majdoors and itself acting like the 20th century zamindaar, adamant to keep paying less than the market rate
dear guha,pl go through the abc of working of oil producing companies before making any loose sweeping statements. the success of ongc is due to sweat and hard work of its employees. so kindly refrain from abusing their contribution towards the progress of the country due to the psu employees.
I have earlier worked in a major oil sector PSU and can confidently claim that the hard work, dedication and competence of the technical people are at least on par with that of their counterparts in private sectors. The demand for salary revision and increase in perks in line with the industry standard is a valid demand. I would blame the oil ministry / government who only promised to deceive ... and the situation has aggravated to an extent where the executives have gone on a strike! Let us sincerely hope that the standstill will be amicably solved to save the country for loosing millions of rupees every day ....
Firstly ,Salary Revision of Oil PSU's is being done after 10 years instead of normal 5 years.Secondly ,the huge employee turnover from PSU oil(ONGC,IOCL,BPCL,HPCL) majors to Private Oil Cos in last 2-3 years at more than 200% of their last salary in PSU suggests the market value of the OIL PSU Potential.Thirdly ,the Petroleum Minister had also shown concern of huge employee turnover.Forthly , Strike demands from OIl PSUs were called of 3 times in last 2 years on Assurances from Our very own Petroleum Minister and also our Honourable Prime Minister .But assurances remained assurances and were never converted into decisions.Fifthly ,if a fact based study is done in comparing the Salary Package of Oil PSU with Private sector,it will become evident that the Oil PSUs compensation is not even 50 % of the Private sector.Hence teh NOn-Revision of Compensation to Market Rates will lead in Quality Manpower leaving the Oil PSU's in large Numbers and joining Private sector which will be a greater loss to the Oil PSU.Facts .Even after the demands of the Oil Officers is accepted by The Govt in Total ,that will still be lesser than teh Market vaue.
Dear Sir, Before 6th CPC the salary of CPSU officer were more than their counter part in CDA since the DA of IDA pattern always remain less and PSU officers are having more accountibility than CDA officer. But after revesion of 2nd pay recommendation of CPSU, the IDA officer are far behind from CDA officer. This case also to be taken. We are heartly with you.
Surely the ompensation of oil psu employees is a matter of concern, but so is the matter of country coming to a standstill because of this strike. think of it, this is the peak of RABi, and farmers of ten states are dependent on urea from fertiliser plants along HBJ pipeline. what will happen to them if urea manufacturing is stalled?? you have no right to play with the food security of the country just because your salary is low!!. and I am talking about only one consequence of this strike, there are bound to be a lot more.
The present situation in the country is such that the people of India have to call strike through out the nation to solve the terrorist problem. Because only thro strike the governments understand the pain of the citizens. Pl gear up for such a strike.
Mr Abhijit Guha, do you know the working conditions, challenging problems of OIL FIELD? Pl remember that those babus are also paying TAX on their income.
Mr Guha. Are you not aware of US great Private companies going bankrupt? Public sector cannot hold public ransom. only Private sector can hold public ransom by monopoly sir.
No Actually Mr. Abhijit Guha is just a good for nothing communist who doesn't know the actual facts and just yaps while wasting his time in adda baji
The Government must immediately start the privatisation process of the oil PSUs. This is the perfect medicine to tame the babus who hold the country to ransom by going on strikes. Enough is enough. Why should the tax payer pay from his pocket extra money so that a lucky oil PSU employed babu shall have an extravagent life-style. Let the babus strike. The Government should never increase their salaries by even 1 paisa. Let them leave the company if they are not satisfied with their current compensation. The tax payer will not pay for your life-style.
I agree with Mr. Guha regarding the privatisation of oil sector PSUs. That is the only way to counter the strike threat by its employees. Mr. Arun Shourie did a great service to the nation by privatising IPCL. If only he has been successful in privatising IBP
I absolutely agree with Mr. Guha. The Government must privatise all PSUs. Arun Shourie did the right thing by privatising IPCL (an oil sector PSU). So employees of IPCL cant't terrorise the Government any more now. Thus privatisation of PSUs is good for the country.
Guhaji, How many days in your entire life worked to earn? Why don't you clean the mess in your sphere of governance where babus and politcos dominate and mismanage the money meant for poors. We earn through our own earnings and we are demanding at par the others getting in the industry. Better, you work voluntarily at any site in North East, Mumbai High or Oil refinery for a fortnight...do some study there at least. You will certainly be able to understand the meaning of 1 paisa increase...
Guhaji,I too have same feeling on every body when they go on strike. But Govt should have some control on some perticular itmes like energy sector. For your kind information oil sector also partly in the hands of private people only. If it is in hands of them fully, slowly you, me and everybody should dance as they want. Hence be cool and think of actual problem of OIL PSU employees.
why not? it seems our agent of private sector seems all hell bent on killing the cash cow of nation which is served by its dedicated employees who leave their families and live away from their homes, being milked to their convenience by the politican for their petty gains. Babus in the ministry who use their funds for their private luxury. and for ur information its not only luck but u have to spend sleepless nights of hard preparation to get into a PSU. Anyway who is holding the country to ransom, can't u see it is the bloody politicians and their sycophant bureaucrats. Moreover, its not the taxpayer's money but our own companies' hard earned profits.
Recently the President's salary was increased to three times...the MPs increase their own salary several folds each time and the beaurecracy has pay comission after pay commission fattening their wallets...this is oe part...Have you worked for an oil company ...do you know the working conditions...apart from that do you know the terms of the settlement that is being pushed down the throats of oil officers...read that and then comment. otherwise you sound like the empty pot politicians of this country...ram
Dear Mr Guha,i think u r totally misinformed about the lifestyle and working conditions of oil PSU executives.They are not demanding any extra money but redressal of their genuine grievances which have not been done by this pay revision.This strike was unfortunately the last thing to which oil PSU's had to resort to make the government listen to their demands.And for ur kind information these officers are also tax payers like u.You also seem to be unaware of the impact which the privatisation of oil PSU's will have on the nation as they are the only ones who carry the subsidy burden to the tune of thousand of crores of rupees.
The general public, including Mr Guha should know that due to our Efficiency
Mr. Guha please correct yourself, now a days there are no babus in the PSUs, there are people who work on shop floors, run plants, carry out maintenance jobs. Few people are there in administrative jobs to look over operations, finance and HR functions.
satyam was a nice private company with no babus and good incompetent persons like u in it
I have worked for one of the power sector giants in india and now in an MNC..I must tell that i have never come across such intelligent guys together at one place i have seen in that PSU. All the engineer trainees were class apart. In the private companies the corruption is more, people give jobs to the clients relatives in order to win big projects bribe officials, resign to get needless promotion etc etc.. PSU speciall IOCL,NTPC, HPCL,ONGC deserve better compensations than any other firm in india coz they are less corrupt, better performers
Hello Mr. Guha, I think you does not know anything about the working and pay structure of OIL PSUs.An OIL PSU officer works harder than his private counter part and then even earns a less salary. The days of Babus are over, now working style of all OIL PSUs have changed and i dont understand which extavagent lifestyle you are talking about, that kind of lifestyle is enjoyed in private sector not in a PSU and please dont forget that 4 out of top 6 companies of India in Fortune 500 are OIL PSUs.
@ Mr Abhijit1.PSU employees are among the highest tax-payers. 2.Plz go n check out the salaries of Central/State Govt employees or the real "babus".You are not aware of happenings.3.Never call oil PSU employee lucky coz they are there bcoz of their talent and skills.Go through the rigorous selection procedure and then post views.4. How do u describe the life style of employees of other sectors? As rightly said by Sh choudhuri, first be apprised of the service conditions before publicizing your views.
Do you know service conditions of Oil PSU Officers? It is better that you learn and then write on such sensitive issues. My god are you an agent provocateur?
Sh. Guha,You are not knowing the business dynamics of oil sector, without which your comments childish. Govt. gets most of the profit earned by highly efficient Oil Companies. The work force of any sector, if not provided compensation as per industry standards/ parity, will suffer brain drain, as oil companies are already facing. The govt. should understand the challenge of retaining the best talent in the oil sector through better revisions, as the revisions proposed in Rao committee are inadequate.
hello Mr. Guha are you aware about oil PSUs selection procedure,working conditions and performance of employees.first know about above and comment on the sensitive issues.the working timings are not like babus/soft ware engineers/white collar jobs.employees of OIL PSUs do work round the clock with high risk factor.
its all about market dynamics.... if govt. privitize PSU, The profit making People will get double of the salaries they get, check the pay packages essar, shell and reliance is offering, and govt. will also lose the hold on market price... then .. we gonna be screaming for anti public campain.. Privatizin profit making gaints... think before u act... those babus are also smart.. thtz y they are those 55000 from 1,15,00,00,000 people in india
The problem needs to be discussed across the table with both govt and executives of OIL sectors appreciating each other's view points and come to conclusion acceptable to both. Our country is not in position to afford strikes and disruptions. It is understood that govt has been inviting executives for discussions having no response OSOA.
If you deserve more pay then resign and search then you know how useless you are.In my view whoever is in strike should be shacked.
HA Ha Ha !!!! People like you who don't even know correct English.... are deciding who should be sacked and who should resign...The country is going to Dogs..........
Mr. Patel first i will like to know with which sector u are presently associated with. I m of the view that u dont have any knowledge of the hazardous conditions in which oil PSU employees are working. Yes definitely they deserve more than they have got and whether they r useful or useless can be gauged from the fact that there has been continuos brain drain from the oil sector and all the big giants are there to grab them whenever they wish.If oil sector executives resign then i m abolutely confident that people like u willbring this hard working oil sector to shambles.This is the truth and it is requested of u to enhance your knowledge base before posting such comments about oil PSU executives.This strike was the last thing to which they had to unfortunately resort after several rounds of unfruitful discussions with government to make it pay heed to their demands.
YES WE ARE GOING TO RESIGN AND IF THEY PRIVATISE PSU THEM YOUR MOTHER HAS TO PAY EXTRA 500 RUPEES ON LPG AND YOU HAVE TO PAY EXTRA 10 RUPEES ON PETROL,
Oil sector is already privatised with entry of Reliance and Essar, these Pvt cos closed all their pumps day they start loosing.It is easy to advocate Pvt but how many will buy gas cylinder for rs 600/- .Bailout for Pvt and arrest for PSU staff?
Mr.Swarup, if OIL Sector officers reisgn then there will be no one as talented to take their positions in such meagre salary and it will ultimately lead to end of all OIL PSUs. And i will like to bring your notice that an oil sector officer gets the highest pay in any private firm if he reisigns..