ONGC plans to acquire much larger acreage via open acreage licensing policy
OVL and its partners had offered to invest up to $11 billion for development of the discovery, which was later named Farzad-B
Farzad-B, which was discovered by OVL in the Farsi block about 10 years ago, had in-place gas reserve of 21.7 trillion cubic feet, of which 12.5 Tcf is believed to be recoverable
The CCEA, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, approved the additional investment for the Shwe oil and gas project in Myanmar blocks
OVL said in Brazil, well Moita Bonita-2 encountered natural gas reserves at water depth of 2.6 kilometers
The overseas investment arm of ONGC showed a turnover rise to 40.5 per cent to Rs 14,632 crore
The government had on previous occasions looked at hiving off the highly successful OVL from its parent and monetising it by listing the firm on domestic or international bourses
The government had last month asked ONGC to list its overseas investment arm OVL on stock exchanges and transfer proceeds to it in the form of a special dividend
OVL had last year made its 'best' offer to spend USD 11 billion in developing the Farzad-B field as well as in building the infrastructure to export the gas
The fresh acquisition would strengthen its partnership with Tullow and its other partners and would mark the consolidation of interest in Namibian offshore.
Gas output rose 17.6 per cent to 2.2 billion cubic meters