ONGC sees peak gas output from Krishna Godavari block in 2024
Published by Nicholas Woodroof,
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India, the world’s fourth biggest importer of LNG, wants to boost local gas output as Prime Minister Narendra Modi has set a target to raise the share of the cleaner fuel in the country’s energy mix to 15% by 2030 from the current 6%.
Most of the future gas production is expected from the Krishna Godavari Basin, where ONGC and Reliance Industries operate blocks. Reliance aims to produce 30 million m3/d of gas by 2023 from its assets in the basin.
ONGC will ramp up production from its Krishna Godavari Basin block to about 3-3.5 million m3/d from May, which will be further raised to 8.5 million m3/d in 2022/23 before hitting peak rate in 2024, the company's head of finance Subhash Kumar said.
Combined output of Reliance and ONGC will be about 60% of the average 77 million m3/d Indian companies produced in April-December 2020.
To make its gas business profitable ONGC has floated a new subsidiary and expects government to raise local prices.
Current local gas prices of US$1.79/million British thermal units (mmBtu) have hit ONGC’s revenue. The company’s production cost is US$3.5-US$3.7/mmBtu, he said.
The company will spin-off its entire gas business into the new subsidiary. ONGC holds stake in downstream gas assets and overseas gas blocks either directly or through its subsidiaries.
Kumar said the new subsidiary will bid for gas produced by ONGC for use in the group’s refining and petrochemical plans.
“As far as coming years are concerned the story of gas is going to unfold which is going to be critical for the sustained positive performance of the company,” Kumar said.
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