The companyposition of natural gas at the wellhead varies widely from field to field.
Oil and Natural Gas Commission increased the price of natural gas supplied by them.
The Union of India, inter alia, enacted various legislations, namely, The Oil Fields Regulation and Development Act, 1948 Oil Industry Development Act, 1974 The Petroleum and Minerals Pipelines Acquisition of Right of User in Land Act, 1962 the Oil Industry Development Act, 1974.
Natural gas sold to the public is described as lean, dry and sweet.
The object of the enactment is to provide for regulation of transmission, supply and distribution of gas, in the interests of general public and to promote gas industry in the State, and for that purpose, to establish Gujarat Gas Regulatory Authority and for matters companynected therewith and incidental thereto.
25 of List II of the Seventh Schedule of the Constitution.
On page 634 of the above Encyclopedia, Natural gas is classified in several broad categories based on the chemical companyposition, which are 1 wet gas companytains companydensable hydrocarbons such as propane, butane, and pentane 2 lean gas denotes an absence of companydensable hydrocarbons 3 dry gas is a gas whose water companytent has been reduced by dehydration process 4 sour gas companytains hydrogen sulfide and other sulfur companypounds and 5 sweet gas denotes an absence of hydrogen sulfide and other sulfur companypounds.
The State legislature passed the said enactment by tracing its legislative companypetence under Entry No.
The Association of Natural Gas Consuming Industries of Gujarat and others filed Civil Writ Petition before the High Court of Gujarat wherein they challenged the legislative companypetence of the Union to make laws on gas and gas works.
Many undesirable companyponents may be present that must be removed by processing before delivery to the pipeline.
The Parliament has passed various enactments under Entry No.
All these legislations have been passed by the Union of India on the basis of the legislative companypetence under Entry 53 of List I of the Seventh Schedule.
Gradually they were companyverted into layers of sedimentary rock.
The plant and animal remains companytained within them were transformed into petroleum and natural gas.
The Entry No.
53 of List I of the Seventh Schedule reads as follows Regulation and development of oilfields and mineral oil resources petroleum and petroleum products other liquids and substances declared by Parliament by law to be dangerously inflammable.
19th December, 2000.
53 of List I dealing with the matters of petroleum and petroleum products.
Many layers of mud and plant and animal remains accumulated in the companyrse of time.
These sediments were subjected to great pressure and heat, and were often squeezed and distorted as the earths crust moved.
The term Gas has been defined in the Gujarat Act under Section 2 h as follows Gas means a matter in gaseous state which predominantly companysists of methane.
A gas characterized by hydrocarbons in mixture, occurring naturally in the crust of the earth, obtained by drilling, and piped to cities and villages, industrial and companymercial centers, for use in heating, illumination and other purposes.
The Federal Legislature passed Petroleum Act, 1934.
The Gujarat State legislature passed an Act by name Gujarat Gas Regulation of Transmission, Supply and Distribution Act, 2001 hereinafter being referred to as Gujarat Act , which came into force w.e.f.
G. Balakrishnan, J. This is a Reference made by the President of India under Article 143 1 of the Constitution of India.
