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RIL (TP Rs1,320, BUY): Gas pricing policy a dampener,
however risk reward remains favourable
The cabinet has made an exception for D1-D3 fields where a pricing
arbitration is underway. The D1-D3 fields, which are producing 7
mmscmd, will continue to receive a price of US$4.2/mmbtu until the
arbitration is completed. RILs MA fields (producing 5 mmscmd) will
receive the new gas price.
On the new discoveries that RIL is developing (R-Cluster, Satellite
fields, MJ-1), GoI is planning to provide a premium over and above the
existing gas price (of US$6.2/mmbtu) to all the discoveries from here
on. It remains unclear whether RILs discoveries would be eligible for
the premium and if so, is the premium remunerative enough for RIL to
develop them.
We had assumed an increase in gas price on the entire KG D6
production effective Nov 1
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2014. However, in the event of with D1-
D3 not getting the higher gas price there will be a negative
impact on our FY15/16 EPS estimate by 1.2%/2.2%. Further,
if RIL does not get a remunerative gas price and decides not to
develop these fields, our SOTP value would fall by Rs80/share, from
Rs1,320 to 1,240/share.
On the positive side, with diesel being deregulated, RIL could enter
into fuel retailing. The material upside could accrue by FY17-18
when the company could retail 12mmt of diesel annually in the
domestic market after complete deregulation of the fuel. This will
accrete $400-500m (5%) per annum to its Ebitda.
We believe new capacities coming up in refining and petrochemicals
will almost double its EPS over FY14-18ii. This will help ROE recover
to 14% from 11.8% currently. RIL is trading at its 10-year average
one-year forward P/B, indicating that the strong revival in its
earnings and ROE are not factored into the current price.
Impact on CGD Companies
IGL (BUY): 11-12% increase in CNG prices required to maintain
margins, see low risk to IGLs earnings:
CNG is estimated to account for 75% of the IGLs FY15 gas volumes.
APM gas accounts for 75-80% of the CNG volumes. A 50% increase
in domestic APM gas price from US$4.2/mmbtu to US$6.2/mmbtu
will require IGL to increase CNG prices by 11-12% (Rs4-4.5/kg) to
maintain its margins (CNG retail price in Delhi to increase from
Rs38/kg to Rs42-42.5/kg).
Similarly, domestic PNG (5% of total volumes) would require a 10-
12% increase in end-consumer prices for IGL to maintain its
margins.
The new prices would be effective from 1
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November 2014. In the
meanwhile, GoI is also looking for a possible reduction in tax rates
on CNG sales to reduce the overall burden on end consumers. Any
partial or gradual price increase would affect IGLs margins and in
turn its profitability. A Re1/kg change in gross spread in the CNG
segment would affect IGLs FY16 EPS by 12-13%.
We note, in FY10 when wellhead price of APM gas was doubled to
US$4.2/mmbtu, IGLs input price increased ~55%. To offset this,
IGL increased CNG prices by 26% within two weeks and maintained
its profitability. This time too, we expect IGL to pass on the higher
input cost (based on past precedents) and maintain its margins.
Note that, even at revised CNG and liquid fuel (petrol and diesel)
prices, CNG offers a ~55% saving vs. petrol and 35% saving vs.
diesel in running cost per km.
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Figure5: Historically,IGLhasalwayspassedongascostsandmaintaineditsmargins
Source:Company,IIFLResearch
Figure6: CNGstilloffershugesavingsvs.liquidfuels
Source:Industry,IIFLResearch
Gujarat Gas (BUY) 5-6% hike in CNG prices required low risk
to margins:
As against IGL, for Gujarat Gas (GGAS), CNG comprises just 18% of
volumes and 6-7% consists of domestic PNG. Thus, on overall
company basis, GGAS would have limited impact of APM gas price
increase since APM gas accounts for only ~20% of total gas basket.
The balance requirement is met through other domestic sources
such as PMT + Cairn (for which prices have not been changed) and
R-LNG.
Assuming 80% of the APM gas is consumed in GGAS CNG operations
(~18% of the volumes or 0.4mmscmd), the price increase required
in CNG would be ~5% to neutralize the impact of higher gas cost.
Impact on Power companies:
Power cost to increase 25-30% to Rs5/unit:
India has a total installed gas-based generation capacity of 22.5GW
(10% of all India installed capacity ex-renewable energy). The PLF
of the gas-based stations declined 4500bps to 22% over FY11-
1HFY15 (see figure 7) due to: 1) lower domestic gas availability;
and 2) lower off-take from SEBs of expensive power based on R-
LNG.
A 50% increase in APM gas price is estimated to increase the cost of
generation by 25-30% from Rs3.9/unit to Rs4.8-5/unit. This would
further lower offtake from SEBs and impact plant utilization (PLF).
Further, at the new APM price, the variable cost of generation is
Rs3.1/unit (see figure 6). On back-calculating, the coal equivalent
cost works out to be US$93/MT (low GCV imported coal) this is 2x
of the prevailing market price of imported coal.
22GW of operational project and 5GW of under-construction
project at risk:
Given the weak financial health of SEBs, we see low demand for
such expensive power, placing 22GW of operational and 5GW of
under-construction capacity at risk of being stranded.
Most of the operational capacity operates on vanilla ROE basis,
which allows utilities to recover fixed costs based on plant
availability (irrespective of the actual generation). However, going
forward, we see: 1) SEBs challenging such contracts in the relevant
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regulatory commissions; and 2) generators facing challenges while
recovering cash from discoms.
Torrent Power, GVK Power, and Lanco Infras gas units are among
the worst affected operational IPPs and among under-construction
capacity R-Powers 2.4GW unit is at risk (see figure 8 for key project
on gas).
Limited options available to revive gas based projects:
Pooling of gas prices as proposed (only for part capacity of 10GW)
may no longer be effective given that difference between the cost of
generation on revised APM price and R-LNG price has narrowed. This
would also require a higher subsidy payment from by GoI than the
earlier envisaged one of Rs57bn. The Cabinet Committee of
Economic Affairs (CCEA) is likely to take a final call on the proposal.
In our view, to revive these gas-based projects, GoI may come up
with: 1) differential regulated return policy for peaking power
stations for gas based projects or/and; 2) an open access policy
allowing IPPs to sell power directly to end-consumers. In this regard,
the judgment by APERC to allow gas based projects to procure
imported gas and sell to industrial consumers holds significance and
looks the most acceptable way out to revive gas-based projects.
Figure7: Powercostwouldincreaseby2530%duetodoublingofdomesticgasprices
Fuel OldAPMGas NewDomesticAPMGas RLNG
Plantcapacity(MW) 1,000 1,000 1,000
Capitalcost(Rsm) 50,000 50,000 50,000
LandedpriceofGas(US$/mmbtu) 5.0 7.2 15.0
Gascosts(Rs/unit) 2.1 3.1 6.5
Annualfixedcosts(Rs/unit) 1.7 1.7 1.7
TotalCostofGeneration(Rs/unit) 3.9 4.8 8.2
Source:Company,IIFLResearch
Figure8: PLFofthegasbasedstationhasdeclinedby4500bpsoverFY111hFY15given
highercostofgenerationresultinginlowerofftakefromSEBs
Source:CEA,IIFLResearch
Figure9: Keygasbasedpowerprojects
Developer Plant State Capacity
(MW)
GMREnergy VemagiriCcpp AndhraPradesh 370
GMREnergy Kakinada AndhraPradesh 220
GMREnergy VemagiriPowerExpansion AndhraPradesh 768
GVKPower GautamiCcpp AndhraPradesh 464
GVKPower JegurupaduCcpp AndhraPradesh 455
LancoInfra KondapalliExtnCcpp. AndhraPradesh 366
LancoInfra KondapalliCcpp AndhraPradesh 350
LancoInfra KondapalliIII AndhraPradesh 742
NTPC Multipleprojects 4,100
ReliancePower Samalkot AndhraPradesh 2,400
TorrentPower SugenCcpp Gujarat 1,148
TorrentPower UnosugenCcpp Gujarat 383
TorrentPower DGEN Gujarat 1,200
Source:CEA,Company,IIFLResearch
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18 Jan 2012 524 600 ADD
28 May 2012 731 770 ADD
20 Jun 2012 751 865 BUY
06 Sep 2012 345 420 BUY
29 Nov 2012 328 410 BUY
04 Feb 2013 421 540 BUY
12 Jun 2014 522 660 BUY
20 Jun 2014 564 760 BUY
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25 Oct 2011 426 421 REDUCE
07 Dec 2011 400 372 REDUCE
31 Jul 2012 356 370 REDUCE
15 Feb 2013 335 550 REDUCE
29 May 2013 327 320 REDUCE
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15 Nov 2011 1290 1570 BUY
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29 May 2012 450 520 ADD
20 Dec 2012 457 560 BUY
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14 Aug 2013 475 560 BUY
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08 Nov 2011 277 330 BUY
09 Feb 2012 283 275 ADD
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27 Nov 2012 250 260 ADD
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13 Aug 2013 278 320 ADD
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Price TP/Recochangeddate
(Rs)
RelianceIndustries:3yearpriceandratinghistory
Date Close price
(Rs)
Target price
(Rs)
Rating
17 Oct 2011 867 1000 BUY
03 Jan 2012 707 960 BUY
23 Jan 2012 793 760 REDUCE
24 Feb 2012 833 740 REDUCE
15 May 2012 681 730 REDUCE
22 Jun 2012 719 665 REDUCE
23 Jul 2012 723 680 REDUCE
16 Oct 2012 823 740 REDUCE
21 Jan 2013 900 805 REDUCE
15 May 2013 798 830 REDUCE
22 Jul 2013 924 840 REDUCE
21 Apr 2014 957 880 REDUCE
Date
Close price
(Rs)
Target price
(Rs)
Rating
21 Jul 2014 977 1200 BUY
01 Sep 2014 999 1320 BUY