Natural gas and petroleum Kakinada is the base for Oil and Natural Gas Corporation 's Eastern

Offshore Asset. Several oil companies have Kakinada as a transit point for oil and gas shipments. Baker Hughes and Schlumberger [15] are examples of the field development companies working on natural gas fields offshore the city. The Krishna Godavari Basin is considered to be the largest natural gas basin in India [16] and significant discoveries of oil and natural gas were made by Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC), Gujarat State Petroleum Corporation and Reliance, which has been producing aroun d 60 mmscd of gas for the past two years from its prolific KG D6 block off the Kakinada coast. Reliance has an onshore terminal at Gadimoga village abou t 25 km from Kakinada to process and distribute gas to other parts of the country. Gujarat State Petroleum Corporation is also working o n setting up a similar facility near Mallavaram village south of Kakinada. GMR is currently working on setting up an oil refinery in Kakinada SEZ. Reliance Gas Transportation Infrast ructure Ltd (RGTIL) has built a 1,440 km pipeline from Kakinada to Bharuch (Gujarat) to transport 120 million cubic meters per day (mcmd ) of natural gas from Krishna -Godavari fields owned by Reliance Industries [17] across India to the west coast. In 2010, the Petroleum and Natural Gas Regulatory Board awarded the City Gas Distribution project for Kakinada city to Bhagyanagar Gas Limited, a consortium of GAIL and Hindustan Petroleum. [18] The construction work is underway to supply gas to Kakinada city and the surrounding towns of Samalkot, Peddapuram and Pithapuram, thus making Kakinada the first city in Andhra Pradesh to get piped gas supply for domestic, commercial and industrial purposes along with Hyderabad and Vijayawada. [edit] Edible oil refineries and biofuel plants In 2002 several edible oil refineries established themselves in Kakinada and the refining capacity has touched 3000 tons per day. Kakinada port is facilitating the imports of crude palm oil, crude soyabean oil. Kakinada has an edible oil refining capacity of more than 3000 MTS per day. Major refineries are Acalmar Oils & Fats Limited (now, taken over by Adani Wilmar Ltd.), Ruchi Infrastructure, Nikhi l Refineries Ltd, etc. [19] The Vakalapudi Industrial park in Kakinada has attracted investments worth over US$ 10 million from bio -diesel companies such as Reliance Industries, Naturol Bioenergy [20] and Universal Bio Fuel. [21][9] Andhra Pradesh has entered into a formal agreement with Reliance Industries for Jatropha planting. The company has selected 200 acres (0.81 km2) of land at Kakinada to grow jatropha for high quality biodiesel fuel. [22][23] [edit] Power generation

There are several small and large power plants in and around Kakinada. Spectrum Power Generation Ltd. has a 208MW power plant at Kakinada. In fact, it was one of the first Independent Power Producer in the country. The company is planning to expand the capacity to 1350 MW in phases. Tenders for the first phase of expansion to the tune of 350 MW have been called for recently. [24] GMR Energy has erected a 220 MW barge mounted FPP (floating power plant), towed from its earlier location, Mangalore due to the abundant availability of Natural Gas in this region. A 220 MW Power Station (currently being scaled upwards to 2400 MW at a cost of Rs 10000 Cr) owned by Reliance Energy Limited, [25] and a 464 MW Combined Cycle Power Plant by GVK group are under operation at Samalkota (Kakinada Rural). [26] All these private power plants supply electricity to the state's transmission utility, AP TRANSCO, under a Power Purchase Agreement.

Indian 3PL Market Forecasts To Grow

Wednesday, December 08, 2010 Logistics Insight Asia - Technology & Market Trends Research and Markets has added the "3rd Party Logistics Market in India" report to their offering. In this era of globalization, India is witnessing an increasing demand for the 3PL (third party logistics) business, with com panies now concentrating on managing their supply chain mechanisms in a better way as well as to deepen their market penetration. Continuous improvement in logistic infrastructure and increasing awareness about efficient logistic practices have led 3PL se rvices to be perceived as a far better way of cont rolling both internal and external logistic processes. Unfortunately, Indian 3PL services market is nowhere in comparison to the developed markets of the US and Japan, where use of 3PL services account for over 50 percent of the total logistic cost. Desp ite this, the Indian market is full of opportunities compared to these developed markets, because of the infrastructural development such as ports, highways, bridges as well as increasing connecti vity and rising significance of logistic services in the country.

In line with this, Research and Markets expects that improving infrastructure and rising focus on core business operations wi ll lead the future growth of the Indian 3PL market. The market is projected to witness a CAGR of around 26 percent during t he forecast period (20112013), harvesting total revenue of nearly US$4.6 billion by 2013.