Lok Sabha Question No. 4254 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2016-12-12
Subject: National Seismic Programme
Ministry: PETROLEUM AND NATURAL GAS
Asked by: PARVESH SAHIB SINGH, BALKA SUMAN

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO.4254

## TO BE ANSWERED ON 12 TH  December, 2016

## NATIONAL SEISMIC PROGRAMME

## 4254.  SHRI PARVESH SAHIB SINGH: SHRI SUMAN BALKA

पेट्रोलियम और प्राक ृ लिक गैस मंत्री

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

- (a)  whether  the  Government  has  recently  launched  a  'National  Seismic  Programme  to understand the hydrocarbon potential of the country and if so, the details thereof along with estimated financial outlay earmarked for the programme;
- (b) whether the Government had earlier conducted any such surveys in this regard and if so, the details thereof;
- (c) whether the Government proposes to develop and set up a National Data Repository in the country; and
- (d) if so, the salient features of the same along with its benefits likely to be extended to oil exploration and production

## ANSWER

पेट्रोलियम और प्राक ृ लिक गैस मंत्रािय में राज्य मंत्री ( प्राार रन्त्िवत्र ( ) प्रााप्र ामेवध ीी )

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

(a) Government of India has started the National Seismic Programme (NSP) which aims to undertake a fresh appraisal of sedimentary basins across India, especially where no/scanty data is available in order  to have a better understanding of the hydrocarbon prsopectivity. Under this programme Oil & Natural Gas Corporation Limited (ONGC) has been entrusted to carry out 40835 LKM of 2D seismic data acquisition, processing & interpretation (API) in 22 onland Indian Sedimentary basins in 18 States and Union Territories. Oil India Limited (OIL) has  been  entrusted  to  carry  out 7408  LKM of  2D  seismic  data  acquisition,  processing  & interpretation  (API)  in  the  North-Eastern  States.  Year  wise  financial  outlay  of  the  plan  is given below:

| Year    |    ONGC |    OIL |   Total |
|---------|---------|--------|---------|
| 2016-17 |  517.45 |  89.01 |  606.46 |
| 2017-18 |  828.03 | 324.95 | 1152.98 |
| 2018-19 |  733.59 | 297.48 | 1031.07 |
| 2019-20 |   80.37 |  62.11 |  142.48 |
| Total   | 2159.44 | 773.55 | 2932.99 |

(b)Under Nomination and Production Sharing Contract (PSC) regime,  13,02,924 LKM of  2D Survey and  4,12,451 SKM of 3D Survey has been conducted by  Public Sector Undertaking and  Private  and  Joint  Venture  companies  in  their  awarded  acreages  upto  2015-16.  In addition,  Directorate  General  of  Hydrocarbon  (DGH)    on  its  own  has  conducted      28,279 LKM of  2D Survey through Government of India funding, 12,235 LKM of  2D Survey under Joint  Venture    mode  and  36,  655  LKM  of    2D  Survey    under  Non-  Government  Funding mode.

c) & d) Government has set up a National Data Repository (NDR) at DGH, Noida. NDR will provide a world-class data storage and retrieval infrastructure for all E  & P activities.  The Salient features of NDR include:

-  Preserves and disseminates oil & gas information data
-  Promotes and regulates exploration and development activities for hydrocarbons in India
-  Will help in implementing OALP wherein acreages can be chosen by the E&P companies on the basis of assessed prospectivity as seen from the data available through NDR.

There are many perceived benefits likely to extended to oil exploration and production from NDR:

-  Cost savings from the elimination of redundancy
-  Secure storage and disaster recovery
-  Common standards for data submission and delivery
-  Simplified data transfer to operators
-  Instantaneous data distributions/sharing

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