Lok Sabha Question No. 2426 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2017-07-31
Subject: Monitoring of Oil/Gas Fields
Ministry: PETROLEUM AND NATURAL GAS
Asked by: KAMAL NATH, JYOTIRADITYA MADHAVRAO SCINDIA

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF PETROLEUM AND NATURAL GAS

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 2426 TO BE ANSWERED ON 31 st  July, 2017 Monitoring of Oil/Gas Fields

## 2426. SHRI KAMAL NATH: SHRI JYOTIRADITYA M. SCINDIA:

## Will  the  Minister  of  PETROLEUM  AND  NATURAL  GAS  be  pleased  to state:

(a) whether the Government has intensified monitoring of oil and gas fields given to State-owned firms like Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited to avoid slippages in the domestic output and if so, the details thereof;

(b) whether the country's import dependence of oil and gas in the past few years has increased  and  the  State-owned  firms  in  exploration  could  not  show  the  desired results of domestic output; and

(c) if so, the details thereof along with the steps taken/proposed to be taken by the Government  to  spruce  up  the  functioning  of  State-owned  oil  and  gas  exploration companies?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER  OF  STATE  (I/C)  IN  THE  MINISTRY  OF  PETROLEUM  &  NATURAL GAS (SHRI DHARAMENDRA PRADHAN)

(a). Ministry  of  Petroleum  and  Natural  Gas  vide  letter  dated  25 th November, 2016 has directed Directorate General of Hydrocarbons (DGH) to monitor the production of  oil  and  gas  from  the  fields  given  to  the  National  oil  companies  on  nomination basis. In pursuance of same DGH has undertaken a number of steps for monitoring the oil & gas fields including the following-

- i)   Monthly  production  monitoring,  asset  wise  through  software  based  PDMS (Production Data Monitoring System).
2. ii)   Quarterly Asset level monitoring of production performance.
3. iii)   Monitoring of Reservoir performance
4. iv)    Monitoring of discoveries.
- v)   Constituted  Review  Committees  to  look  into  various  aspects  of  National Oil Companies (NOCs) operations.

This  is  in  addition  to  the  monitoring  of  blocks  given  as  part  of  production  sharing contract  which  are  monitored  as  per  the  provisions  contained  in  the  Production Sharing Contracts (PSCs).

## (b) & (c). Domestic import of Crude oil and gas for last three years is given below:-

|                        |   2014-15 |   2015-16 |   2016-17 |
|------------------------|-----------|-----------|-----------|
| Crude Oil Import (MMT) |    189.4  |    202.9  |    213.9  |
| LNG Import (MMSCMD)    |     50.78 |     58.22 |     67.63 |

Production figures of National Oil Companies i.e. ONGC and OIL for last three years are given below:-

|      |             |   2014-15 |   2015-16 |   2016-17 |
|------|-------------|-----------|-----------|-----------|
| ONGC | Oil (MMT)   |    25.943 |    25.927 |    25.534 |
|      | Gas (BCM)   |    23.524 |    22.53  |    23.27  |
| OIL  | Oil (MMT)   |     3.44  |     3.247 |     3.277 |
| OIL  | Gas (MMSCM) |  2722.21  |  2837.94  |  2936.56  |

Some of the decisions taken by the Government in recent years to enhance exploration and production activities are as under :-

- i. Policy for Relaxations, Extensions and clarifications under Production Sharing Contract (PSC) regime for early monetization of hydrocarbon Discoveries.
- ii. Policy on Testing Requirements.
- iii. Discovered Small Field Policy.
- iv. Policy for exploration in Mining Lease Area.
- v. Hydrocarbon Exploration and Licensing Policy.
- vi. Policy for Extension of Production Sharing Contracts.
- vii. Shale Gas Policy etc.
- viii. Setting up of National Data Repository.
- ix. Appraisal of Unappraised area in Sedimentary Basin.
- x. Re-assessment of Hydrocarbon Resources.
- xi. Policy for early monetization of Coal Bed Methane (CBM)

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