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Essar to speed up CBM plans; to raise output to 5 mmscmd in 3-4 years

Essar Oil and Gas Exploration & Production Ltd is speeding up capital expenditure plans to explore and produce unconventional hydrocarbons that will help raise gas output at its flagship block to about 5 million standard cubic meters per day from less than 1 mmscmd now, its CEO said. EOGEPL is India's largest producer of Coal-Bed Methane (CBM) which just like conventional gas can be used as CNG in automobiles or as feedstock in industries. Buoyed by investor-friendly upstream policy reforms in recent years, including providing marketing and pricing freedom for CBM, the firm is drilling more wells, including horizontal ones, that will help tap into wider resources lying below coal seam in its Raniganj East block in West Bengal, EOGEPL CEO Pankaj Kalra told reporters on the sidelines of the India Energy Week. The firm currently produces 0.9 mmscmd of gas or 1 per cent of India's total gas output. "Our drilling campaign will see production rise to 2.3-2.4 mmscmd in the next 14-15 ...

Woodside in talks with Santos to form $52 billion Australian gas giant

Santos says it's exploring a range of alternative structural options

ONGC to start oil production from $5bn deep-water project this month

State-controlled Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) will kick off oil production from its much-delayed flagship deepsea project in Krishna Godavari basin in Bay of Bengal this month, helping reverse years of decline in output, a senior company official said. "We plan to start producing from the Cluster-2 project in KG-DWN-98/2 block this month and slowly ramp up," ONGC Director (Production) Pankaj Kumar told PTI here. A floating production unit, called FPSO, which will be used to produce oil, is already in the block. After several missed deadlines, ONGC has told Shapoorji Pallonji Oil & Gas (SPOG) that its floating production, storage and offloading vessel (FPSO) Armada Sterling-V should prepare to receive the first oil this month. Oil production from Cluster-2 should have begun by November 2021, but was delayed because of the pandemic. Kumar said ONGC plans to start producing from 3 to 4 wells initially and slowly connect others. "Initial production could be 8,000 to 9,000 ...

Biggest-ever round of oil and gas blocks may be open for bidding in Nov

The 26 blocks earmarked by the Directorate General of Hydrocarbons (DGH) for exploration and development of oil and gas under OALP IX, constitutes the largest-ever area offered by the government

Here is why China is drilling another 10,000-metre hole in the Earth

The project comes after China National Petroleum Corp. began drilling a well in Xinjiang in May, which was described as the deepest in China at that time

7 people including 2 children killed by gas explosion in van in Pakistan

A fire in a passenger van in eastern Pakistan Saturday killed seven people, including two children, a government official said. The dead included four members of the same family a woman, her daughter and her two granddaughters. Eight passengers received burn injuries of various degrees. Official Nabeel Bhatti said the incident occurred in the Sargodha district of Punjab province after a liquefied petroleum gas cylinder fitted in the vehicle leaked and exploded. The van was immediately engulfed in flames. Five passengers died at the scene, while two others succumbed to their injuries at the hospital. Three of the bodies were charred beyond recognition. Punjab Interim Chief Minister Mohsin Naqvi ordered an investigation into the incident.

Essar Oil partners Sensia for digitalisation of oil, gas field operations

Essar Oil and Gas Exploration and Production Ltd (EOGEPL), India's leading pioneering unconventional hydrocarbon player, on Thursday announced its collaboration with Sensia for the digitalisation of oil and gas field operations to enhance operational efficiencies. "This strategic partnership aims to unify measurement systems, optimise decision-making and enable remote control of critical parameters across EOGEPL's wells, facilities and customer interface," it said in a statement. EOGEPL, which produces gas from coal seams (called coal-bed methane), will deploy Sensia's Avalon digital platform interface. "Sensia's Avalon platform offers a comprehensive interface that simplifies the capture, analysis and digitisation of well-related activities, facility-related activities and customer end operations," it said. The platform enables real-time data acquisition of essential parameters, such as mechanical, electrical, gas and water flow, pressure, and power backup device data, among other

Proposed change to forest law will boost oil, gas exploration, says report

The Centre can speed up the granting of exploration permits for oil and gas resources by easing seismic surveys in forest lands

Essar Oil & Gas invests in microbial eCBM technology to boost CBM output

Essar Oil and Gas Exploration and Production Ltd (EOGEPL) on Monday announced an investment in microbial eCBM technology to boost coal-bed methane (CBM) production from its CBM block in West Bengal. The company, which has so far invested Rs 5,000 crore in finding and producing gas from coal seams, called CBM, plans to invest an additional Rs 2,000 crore to enhance its reserve base and ramp up CBM production to contribute at least 5 per cent to India's total gas production, EOGEPL said in a statement. It has drilled about 350 wells on its Raniganj Block in West Bengal and is currently producing nearly 0.9 million cubic meters of gas per day. Investment in microbial eCBM technology will help raise the output by raising the recovery rate. "EOGEPL has collaborated with The Energy & Resources Institute (TERI) and ONGC Energy Centre (OEC) to establish the potential of eCBM microbial technology in the Raniganj-East Block of the company. "The feasibility test of the technique has been ...

ONGC signs MoU with France's TotalEnergies for deep-water exploration

The MoU seeks to provide technical help for ONGC's push to explore and reduce green house emissions in development of deep-water blocks especially in Mahanadi and Andamans, off India's east coast

Budget 2023: Higher crude exploration drives non-tax revenue goal

The government lists receipts from licence fees for the right of exploration of oil and gas, as well as royalty on off-shore crude oil and gas production

Govt offers 42 hydrocarbon blocks for exploration and development

As many as 26 mainly offshore oil and gas blocks and 16 coal bed methane blocks have been notified for international bidding as India aims to quickly increase the area under exploration

UK offers licensing round for North Sea oil & gas exploration despite oppn

The British government opened a new licensing round for North Sea oil and gas exploration Friday despite criticism from environmentalists and scientists who say the move undermines the country's commitment to fighting climate change. The Conservative government argues that extracting more fossil fuels from the North Sea will create jobs and strengthen UK energy security, and is less environmentally harmful than importing gas and oil from abroad. I know it sounds contradictory but it's actually good for the environment, Climate Minister Graham Stuart said. When we burn our own gas, it's got lower emissions around its production than foreign gas as well as supporting British jobs, he told the BBC. Russia's invasion of Ukraine has pushed gas and electricity prices higher and squeezed energy supplies across Europe, prompting countries to focus urgently on securing new sources. The organisation that oversees the UK's electricity grid has said that planned blackouts might be needed th

Going with the flow: Oil and gas exploration in India

By 2025, tiny Guyana could be producing more oil than the whole of India. This fact alone points to what we have missed out on by driving away international investment through policy hostility

Centre to relax rules, fast-track new measures for oil & gas exploration

More processes to be brought under the self-certification framework while clearance portal is being upgraded

RIL sees gas prices rising in Oct; says revenue grew 3.5 times in FY21-22

It is anticipated that the price of gas from old fields of state-owned ONGC will be hiked to about USD 9 per mmBtu and the cap for difficult fields will rise to double digits

India to double down on oil, gas exploration: Hardeep Singh Puri

The world's third-largest energy consumer will continue to rely on hydrocarbons to meet its growing energy needs in the foreseeable future, he said

Essar Oil strengthens board with experts, experienced hydrocarbon execs

New members include Jonathan R Kelafant of Advanced Resources International, Inc, and Charles Boyer of Schlumberger

These lesser-known firms set to make a mark in India's oil and gas sector

Nippon Power, South Asia Consultancy, PFH (Poddar Family Holdings) Resources and Chennai-based Adbhoot Estates could be the first ones to start production from blocks awarded during DSF-1 auctions

Oil and gas production continues to elude discovered small fields

Officials from many new entrants to India's upstream oil and gas exploration sector point fingers towards delays in clearances and faulty data