{"id":82352,"date":"2023-05-14T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-14T14:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/noticias\/indias-state-owned-company-ongc-announced-a-key-offshore-oil-and-gas-discovery\/"},"modified":"2023-07-18T14:32:54","modified_gmt":"2023-07-18T19:02:54","slug":"indias-state-owned-company-ongc-announced-a-key-offshore-oil-and-gas-discovery","status":"publish","type":"noticias","link":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/news\/indias-state-owned-company-ongc-announced-a-key-offshore-oil-and-gas-discovery\/","title":{"rendered":"India&#8217;s state-owned company ONGC announced a key offshore oil and gas discovery"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Inspenet, May 14, 2023<\/p>\n\n<p>India&#8217;s state-owned exploration and production company ONGC has made what it describes as a key oil and gas discovery in the country&#8217;s western offshore basin.<\/p>\n\n<p>ONGC has discovered exploration wells MBS171HAA-1, named Amrit, and MBS182HDA-1, named Monga, in block MB-OSHP-2017\/1, in the Mumbai offshore region, in the Arabian Sea.<\/p>\n\n<p>Details of the reservations have not yet been released. &#8220;A detailed evaluation of the discoveries is underway,&#8221; ONGC stated on May 11.<\/p>\n\n<p>The block was awarded to the company under the Indian Open Area Licensing Policy (OALP). OALP was introduced in 2017 to attract major oil and gas companies to develop India&#8217;s upstream sector.<\/p>\n\n<p>ONGC previously made a key gas discovery in the MBS171HAA-1 exploration well in the Mumbai offshore region, with a gas flow rate of 145,093 m\u00b3\/d from the Panna Formation.<\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.inspenet.com\/1806-ONGC-India-descubre-petroleo-y-gas-shutterstock_interna.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-91874\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.inspenet.com\/1806-ONGC-India-descubre-petroleo-y-gas-shutterstock_interna.webp 1000w, https:\/\/cdn.inspenet.com\/1806-ONGC-India-descubre-petroleo-y-gas-shutterstock_interna-300x225.webp 300w, https:\/\/cdn.inspenet.com\/1806-ONGC-India-descubre-petroleo-y-gas-shutterstock_interna-768x576.webp 768w, https:\/\/cdn.inspenet.com\/1806-ONGC-India-descubre-petroleo-y-gas-shutterstock_interna-624x468.webp 624w, https:\/\/cdn.inspenet.com\/1806-ONGC-India-descubre-petroleo-y-gas-shutterstock_interna-600x450.webp 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>ONGC discovery is the deepest recorded in the sector<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n<p>This discovery is so far the deepest recorded in the sector, at a depth of 3,800 m, as stated by ONGC in February.<\/p>\n\n<p>These discoveries could give a boost to Indian domestic production at a time when the country struggles to meet production targets and reduce its reliance on oil and gas imports.<\/p>\n\n<p>India&#8217;s crude and condensate production of 586,000 b\/d for fiscal April 2022-March 2023 was around 9pc below its 641,000 b\/d target for the year on imports of 4.67mn b\/ d meet 87pc of demand, Oil Ministry data show. India produced 34 billion m\u00b3 of natural gas in 2022-23, 2% more than the previous year but well below its consumption of 60.3 billion m\u00b3.<\/p>\n\n<p>State-controlled ONGC produced 390,000 b\/d of crude and condensate during 2022-23, below its target of about 424,000 b\/d but stable from a year earlier. ONGC produces 70% of India&#8217;s natural gas and 60% of its oil.<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong> : <a href=\"https:\/\/www.capitalmarket.com\/news\/hot-pursuit\/ONGC-discovers-oil-and-gas-reserves-at-two-blocks-on-Arabian-Sea;-stock-hits-52-week-high\/1417130\" target=\"_blank\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.capitalmarket.com\/news\/hot-pursuit\/ONGC-discovers-oil-and-gas-reserves-at-two-blocks-on-Arabian-Sea;-stock-hits-52-week-high\/1417130\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Capital Market<\/a> <\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Photo<\/strong>: ShutterStock<\/p>\n\n<p>Don&#8217;t miss the <strong>Inspenet News<\/strong> at: <a href=\"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/inspenet-tv\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/inspenet.com\/inspenet-tv\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inspenet, May 14, 2023<br \/>\nIndia&#8217;s state-owned exploration and production company ONGC has made what it describes as a key oil and gas discovery in the country&#8217;s western offshore basin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7047,"featured_media":82202,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categoria_noticias":[13026,13036],"etiqueta_noticias":[],"class_list":["post-82352","noticias","type-noticias","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","categoria_noticias-energy","categoria_noticias-oil-and-gas"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/noticias\/82352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/noticias"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/noticias"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7047"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/noticias\/82352\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"categoria_noticias","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categoria_noticias?post=82352"},{"taxonomy":"etiqueta_noticias","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/etiqueta_noticias?post=82352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}