Oil and Gas Exploration: Abhishek Rohit Gunjan Isha Shah Anupam Kumari
Oil and Gas Exploration: Abhishek Rohit Gunjan Isha Shah Anupam Kumari
Oil and Gas Exploration: Abhishek Rohit Gunjan Isha Shah Anupam Kumari
Abhishek
Rohit Gunjan
Isha Shah
Anupam kumari
OIL & GAS EXPLORATION
Size
Oil & Gas provide 45% of India’s primary energy
requirements.
Crude oil demand is currently about 146 MMT
while the domestic production of crude is only 34
MMT.
India’s crude oil import dependency is likely to
increase to 90% by 2025
Natural gas demand is currently about 179
MMSCMD while the domestic supply is only 80
MMSCMD .
STRUCTURE
Oil and Natural Gas Commission (ONGC) and Oil
India Limited (OIL), both public sector companies,
are the largest with about 82% share of the total
domestic oil and gas production.
The Exploration and Production (E&P) sector is
witnessing increasing private sector participation,
both domestic and foreign.
– In the last 2 years, private sector/JV companies have
made 17 significant hydrocarbon discoveries.
– The world’s largest gas discovery in 2002 (about 10
trillion cubic feet) was made by Reliance Industries Ltd.
Quick outlook about oil and gas
Crude oil demand is likely to increase to about
235 MMT by 2012.
Gas demand is expected to reach 279
MMSCMD by 2012.
A CAGR of 12% for the next 5 years.
Potential
The government is actively promoting the creation of
strategic oil and gas reserves through partnerships with
the private sector.
22% of the Indian sedimentary area is unexplored –
discovery of oil fields by investors such as Cairn Energy
and “giant” gas fields by Reliance, ONGC, etc. indicate a
large potential for profitable investment in exploration.
An investment need of US$40 billion is expected in
exploration and production by 2012.
Reliance alone plans to spend over US$10 billion in oil
& gas exploration and production over the next 3 years.
Oil in India:-History
India has significant amounts of oil and natural gas, and four of
India's top six revenue-generating companies are in the oil and
natural gas business.
The Oil and Natural Gas Commission was established in 1954 as
a department of the Geological Survey of India, but a 1959 act of
Parliament made it, in effect, the country's national oil company.
The Oil and Natural Gas Commission discovered oil in Gujarat in
1959 and opened other fields in the 1960s and 1970s.
Oil production in India amounted to 200,000 tons in 1950 and
400,000 tons in 1960.
In FY 1989, oil production peaked at 34 million tons, of which
Bombay High accounted for 22 million tons.
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India has thirty-five major fields onshore (primarily in Assam and
Gujarat) and four major offshore oil fields (near Bombay, south of
Pondicherry, and in the Palk Strait)
In the mid-1990s, a 1,700-kilometer trans-India pipeline was being
built; the pipeline will link the facilities near Bombay and Kandla to a
series of gas-based fertilizer plants and power stations.
India's need for oil and petroleum-based products--about 40 million
tons per year--far exceeded its domestic production capabilities of 28
million tons per year in the early 1990s.
In February 1994, contracts were awarded for three offshore fields in
the Arabian Sea to an Indian-United States consortium and one in the
Bay of Bengal to an Indian-Australian-Japanese consortium.
In June 1995, an agreement was reached to set a joint-venture
company to construct the first leg of the pipeline, from Iran to
Pakistan. - India oil natural gas 1995 loc data.
Oil and Gas:-
India has total reserves of 775 million metric tonnes
(MMT) of crude oil and 1074 billion cubic metres (BCM)
of natural gas as on April 1, 2009.
Petroleum exports during 2008-09 were US$ 26.2 billion.
In the eighth round of the NELP (NELP-VIII), 1.62 sq km
area will be covered comprising 70 blocks. Out of 70
blocks, 36 have been awarded under NELP-VIII, according
to the Economic Survey 2009-10.
The ninth round of New Exploration Licensing Policy
(NELP) is likely to be launched in the third quarter of 2010.
The government is planning its first ever offer of shale gas
exploration in 2012.
Production:- Oil
By the end of the Eleventh Plan, the refinery capacity is expected
to reach 240.96 million metric tonnes per annum (MMTPA).
During April-May 2010, crude oil production went up to 5.82
MMT, a 5.5 per cent increase over the corresponding period in
2009
During April-May 2010, 26.89 MMT of crude oil was refined, an
increase of 8 per cent over the corresponding period in 2009
During April-May 2010, the actual natural gas production was 9.1
BCM, an increase of 43.5 per cent over the corresponding period
in 2009