Lok Sabha Question No. 4632 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2020-03-23
Subject: Import of Natural Gas
Ministry: PETROLEUM AND NATURAL GAS
Asked by: Meenakashi Lekhi

## Import of Natural Gas

## 4632. SHRIMATI MEENAKASHI LEKHI:

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

- (a) the  details  of  the  steps  taken  to  realize  the  untapped  potential  of  natural  gas  in  the country and reduce the reliance on imports;
- (b) the percentage of import out of the total natural gas consumption and the cost incurred on such imports during the last three years, year-wise; and
- (c) whether the tenders have been invited from private companies to set up CNG pumps in the country, if so, State-wise and UT-wise details thereof?

## ANSWER

## पेट्रोल ियम एवं प्राक ृ तिक गैस मंत्री ( धमेन्द्र प्रधान ) MINISTER OF PETROLEUM& NATURAL GAS (SHRI DHARMENDRA PRADHAN)

(a)  The policy initiatives taken by the Government to increase domestic production of oil and gas include:-

- i. Policy for Relaxations, Extensions and Clarifications under Production Sharing Contract (PSC) regime for early monetization of hydrocarbon discoveries
- ii. Discovered Small Field Policy
- iii. Hydrocarbon Exploration and Licensing Policy
- iv. Policy for Extension of Production Sharing Contracts
- v. Policy for early monetization of Coal Bed Methane
- vi. Setting up of National Data Repository
- vii. Appraisal of Unappraised areas in Sedimentary Basins
- viii. Re-assessment of Hydrocarbon Resources
- ix. Policy framework to streamline the working of Production Sharing Contracts in Pre-NELP and NELP Blocks
- x. Policy to Promote and Incentivize Enhanced Recovery Methods for Oil and Gas
- xi. Policy framework for exploration and exploitation of Unconventional Hydrocarbons under existing Production Sharing Contracts, Coal Bed Methane contracts and Nomination fields

The Government in February, 2019 approved major reforms in exploration and licensing policy to enhance exploration activities, attract domestic and foreign investment in unexplored/unallocated areas  of  sedimentary  basins  and  accelerate  domestic  production  of  oil  and  gas  from  existing fields. The policy reforms inter alia aims to  boost exploration activities with greater weightage to work  programme,  simplified  fiscal  and  contractual  terms,  bidding  of  exploration  blocks  under Category II and III sedimentary basins without any production or revenue sharing to Government, early monetization of discoveries by extending fiscal incentives, incentivizing  gas production including marketing and pricing freedom, induction of latest technology and capital, more  functional  freedom  to  National  Oil  Companies  for  collaboration  and  private  sector

participation  for  production  enhancement  methods  in  nomination  fields,  streamlining  approval processes and promoting ease of doing business including electronic single window mechanism.

- (b) The percentage of import out of the total natural gas consumption and the cost incurred on such imports during the last three years is as under:-

| Financial year   |   Total Natural Gas consumed (MMSCM) | LNG import Qty. (MMSCM) (%)   |   Amount (in million US$) |
|------------------|--------------------------------------|-------------------------------|---------------------------|
| 2016-17          |                                55697 | 24849 (44.6%)                 |                      6128 |
| 2017-18          |                                59170 | 27439 (46.4%)                 |                      8051 |
| 2018-19          |                                60798 | 28740 (47.3%)                 |                     10253 |

(source - Petroleum Planning & Analysis Cell)

(* MMSCM - Million Metric Standard Cubic Metre)

(c) Petroleum & Natural Gas  Regulatory Board (PNGRB)  is the authority to grant authorization  to  the  entities  for  the  development  of  City  Gas  Distribution  (CGD)  network    in Geographical  Areas  (GAs),  as  per  PNGRB  Act,  2006.  Setting  up  of  CNG  pumps  is  part  of development  of  CGD  network  and  the  same  is  carried  out  by  the  entities  viz  Public  Sector Undertaking (PSU) / subsidiary of PSU / Joint Venture (JV) of PSUs / Private Company / JV of PSU and Private Company, authorized by PNGRB based on techno-commercial viability of area. So far PNGRB has authorized 230 GAs for development of CGD network across the country up to 10 th CGD Bidding Round covering more than 400 districts in the country in 27 States/UTs as in Annexure.

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## ANNEXURE REFERRED IN REPLY TO PART (c) OF LOK SABHA UNSTARRD QUESTION NO. 4632 TO BE ANSWERED ON 23.03.2020 REGARDING 'Import of Natural Gas'

## List of Geographical Areas covered till 10th CGD bidding round .

|   Sl No. | State/UT                                      | Geographical Areas                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         |
|----------|-----------------------------------------------|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|        1 | Andhra Pradesh                                | Kakinada, East Godavari District (excluding areas already authorized), West Godavari district, Krishna district (excluding areas already authorized), Vijaiwada, Srikakulam, Visakhapatnam & Vizianagaram Districts; Anantapur and YSR (Kadapa) Districts; Sri Potti Sriramulu Nellore District                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            |
|        2 | Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka &Tamil Nadu         | Chittoor, Kolar and Vellore Districts                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      |
|        3 | Assam                                         | Upper Assam, Cachar, Hailakandi & Karimganj Districts; Kamrup & Kamrup Metropolitan Districts                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              |
|        4 | Bihar                                         | Patna district, Aurangabad, Kaimur & Rohtas Districts; Begusarai District; Gaya& Nalanda Districts; Araria, Purnia, Katihar and Kishanganj Districts; Arwal, Jehanabad, Bhojpur and Buxar Districts; Khagaria, Saharsa and Madhepura Districts; Lakhisarai, Munger and Bhagalpur Districts; Muzaffarpur, Vaishali, Saran and Samastipur Districts                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          |
|        5 | Bihar & Jharkhand                             | Nawada and Koderma Districts; Sheikhpura, Jamui and Deoghar Districts                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      |
|        6 | Daman &Diu and Gujarat                        | UT of Daman, Diu& Gir Somnath Districts                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    |
|        7 | Gujarat                                       | Bhavnagar, Jamnagar, Kutch (West), Kutch (East), Amreli district, Patan district, Dahej, Vagra Taluka, Dahod district, Banaskantha district, Anand district (excluding areas already authorized), Panchmahal district, Gandhinagar, Mehsana, Sabarkantha, Vadodara, Surat, Bharuch, Ankleshwar, Nadiad, Navsari (part) district, Rajkot, Surrendernagar (part) district, Ahmedabad City and Daskroi area, Hazira, Valsad (part) district, Anand area including Kanjari and Badtal villages (in Kheda district), Surendranagar District (Except areas already authorized); Barwala & RanpurTalukas; Navsari District (Except areas already authorized), Surat District (Except areas already authorized); Tapi District (Except areas already authorized) & the Dangs District; Junagadh District, Kheda District (Except areas already authorized), Morbi District (Except areas already authorized) & Mahisagar District; Narmada (Rajpipla) District, Porbandar District |
|        8 | Chandigarh, Haryana, Punjab& Himachal Pradesh | Chandigarh(UT) and Panchkula (Part), SAS Nagar(Part) & Solan (Part) districts                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              |
|        9 | Haryana &Himachal Pradesh                     | Panchkula District (Except areas already authorized), Sirmaur, Shimla & Solan (Except areas already authorized) Districts                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  |
|       10 | Haryana &Punjab                               | Sirsa, Fatehabad and Mansa (Punjab) Districts                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              |
|       11 | Haryana                                       | Sonipat (part) district, Panipat district, Yamuna Nagar district, Rewari district, Rohtak district, Karnal district, Ambala & Kurukshetra district, Bhiwani, Charkhi Dadri & Mahendragarh Districts; Hisar District; Jhajjar District; Sonipat District (Except areas already authorized) & Jind District; Nuh& Palwal Districts; Kaithal District, Gurugram, Faridabad.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   |

|   12 | Himachal Pradesh              | Bilaspur, Hamirpur& Una Districts                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         |
|------|-------------------------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|   13 | Jharkhand                     | East Singhbhum district, Ranchi district, Bokaro, Hazaribagh & Ramgarh Districts; Giridih & Dhanbad Districts; Chatra and Palamu Districts; Seraikela-Kharsawan District; West Singhbhum District                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         |
|   14 | Karnataka                     | Bengaluru (Rural and Urban) districts, Tumkur district, Dharwad district, Belgaum district, Chitradurga & Davanagere Districts; Udupi District; Ballari & Gadag Districts; Bidar District; Dakshina Kannada District; Ramanagara District; Bagalkot, Koppal and Raichur Districts; Chikkamagaluru, Hassan and Kodagu Districts; Kalaburagi and Vijayapura Districts; Mysuru, Mandya and Chamarajanagar Districts; Uttara Kannada, Haveri and Shivamogga Districts                                                                                         |
|   15 | Kerala                        | Ernakulam district, Kozhikode & Wayanad Districts; Malappuram District; Palakkad & Thrissur Districts; Alapuzzha, Kollam and Thiruvananthapuram Districts                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 |
|   16 | Kerala &Puducherry            | Kannur, Kasaragod &Mahe Districts                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         |
|   17 | Madhya Pradesh                | Dewas (part) district, Dhar district, Indore including Ujjain city (Part) district, Gwalior (part) district, Bhopal & Rajgarh Districts; Guna District; Rewa District; Satna & Shadol Districts; Ashoknagar District; Gwalior (Except already authorized) District and Sheopur District; Morena District; Raisen, Shajapur and Sehore Districts; Shivpuri District; Sidhi and Singrauli Districts; Ujjain (Except area already authorized) District, Dewas (Except area already authorized) District and Indore (Except area already authorized) District |
|   18 | Madhya Pradesh & Chattisgargh | Anuppur, Bilaspur and Korba Districts                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     |
|   19 | Madhya Pradesh& Rajasthan     | Jhabua, Banswara, Ratlam and Dungarpur Districts                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          |
|   20 | Madhya Pradesh& Uttar Pradesh | Jhansi (Except area already authorized) District, Bhind, Jalaun, Lalitpur and Datia Districts                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             |
|   21 | Maharashtra                   | Palgarh district & Thane Rural, Raigarh district (excluding area already authorized), Pune district (areas already authorized), Ratnagiri district, Solapur district, Kolhapur district, Mumbai and Greater Mumbai, Pune city including Pimpri-Chinchwad and adjoining contiguous areas Hinjewadi, Chakan, Talegaon, Thane (Urban and adjoining Municipalities), Ahmednagar & Aurangabad Districts; Latur & Osmanabad Districts; Sangli& Satara Districts; Sindhudurg District                                                                            |
|   22 | Maharashtra& Gujarat          | Valsad (Except areas already authorized), Dhule &Nashik Districts                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         |
|   23 | Odisha                        | Khordha district, Kuttack district, Angul & Dhekanal Districts; Sundargarh & Jharsuguda Districts; Balasore, Bhadrak & Mayurbhanj Districts; Bargarh, Debagarh & Sambalpur Districts; Ganjam, Nayagarh & Puri Districts; Jagatsinghpur & Kendrapara Districts; Jajpur & Kendujhar Districts                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               |
|   24 | Punjab                        | Jalandhar (part) district, Ludhiana (part) district, Amritsar, Bhatinda district, Roopnagar district, Fatehgarh Sahib district, SAS Nagar District (Except areas already authorized), Patiala & Sangrur Districts; Ludhiana District (Except area already authorized), Barnala & Moga Districts; Jalandhar District (Except areas already authorized), Kapurthala& SBS Nagar Districts; Ferozepur, Faridkot and Sri Muktsar Sahib Districts; Hoshiarpur and Gurdaspur Districts                                                                           |
|   25 | Rajasthan                     | Kota (part) district, Bhiwadi (in Alwar district), Barmer, Jaisalmer & Jodhpur Districts; Alwar (Other than Bhiwadi) & Jaipur Districts; Kota District (Except area already authorized), Baran & Chittorgarh (Only Rawatbhata Taluka) Districts; Bhilwara & Bundi Districts; Chittorgarh (Other than Rawatbhata Taluka) & Udaipur Districts; Dholpur District; Ajmer, Pali and Rajsamand Districts; Jalore and Sirohi Districts                                                                                                                           |

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|   26 | Tamil Nadu                 | Kanchipuram District; Chennai & Tiruvallur Districts; Coimbatore District; Cuddalore, Nagapattinam & Tiruvarur Districts; Ramanathapuram District; Salem District; Tiruppur District                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            |
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|   27 | Telangana                  | Bhadradri Kothagudem & Khamman Districts; Jagtial, Peddapalli, Karimnagar & Rajanna Sircilla Districts; Jangaon, Jayashankar Bhupalpally, Mahabubabad, Warangal Urban & Warangal Rural Districts; Medak, Siddipet & Sangareddy Districts; Medchal-Malkajgiri, Ranga Reddy & Vikarabad Districts; Nalgonda Suryapet & Yadadri Bhuvanagiri Districts                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              |
|   28 | Tripura                    | Agartala, Gomati District; West Tripura (Except areas already authorized) District                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              |
|   29 | Uttar Pradesh              | Mathura (part) district, Meerut (part) district, Allahabad (part) district, Jhansi (part) district, Saharanpur district, Bulandshahr (part) district, Baghpat district, Bareilly (part) district, Kanpur (part) district, Agra, Firozabad TTZ, Lucknow, Khurja, Moradabad (Part) district, Varanasi district, Gautambudh Nagar, Ghaziabad & Hapur District, Bulandshahr District (Except areas already authorized), Aligarh & Hathras Districts; Allahabad District (Except areas already authorized), Bhadohi & Kaushambi Districts; Amethi, Pratapgarh & Raebareli Districts; Auraiya, Kanpur Dehat & Etawah Districts; Faizabad & Sultanpur Districts; Gorakhpur, Sant Kabir Nagar & Kushinagar Districts; Meerut District (Except areas already authorized), Muzaffarnagar & Shamli Districts; Moradabad (Except areas already authorized) District; Unnao (Except areas already authorized) District: Azamgarh, Mau and Ballia Districts; Bareilly (Except area already authorized) District, Pilibhit and Rampur Districts; Basti and Ambedkarnagar Districts; Farrukhabad, Etah and Hardoi Districts; Gonda and Barabanki Districts; Jaunpur and Ghazipur Districts ; Kanpur (Except area already authorized) District, Fatehpur and Hamirpur Districts; Mainpuri and Kannauj Districts, Mirzapur, Chandauli and Sonbhadra Districts; Shahjahanpur and Budaun Districts; |
|   30 | Uttar Pradesh& Uttarakhand | Bijnor and Nainital Districts                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   |
|   31 | Uttarakhand                | Udhamsingh Nagar district, Haridwar, Dehradun District                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          |
|   32 | West Bengal                | Kolkata Municipal Corporation and parts of adjoining districts, Burdwan District; Darjeeling, Jalpaiguri and Uttar Dinajpur Districts; Howrah (Except Area already authorized) District and Hoogly (Except Area already authorized) District; Nadia (Except Area already authorized) District and North 24 Parganas (Except Area already authorized) District; South 24 Parganas (Except Area already authorized) District                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      |
|   33 | Dadra &Nagar Haveli        | UT of Dadra& Nagar Haveli                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       |
|   34 | Goa                        | North Goa district, South Goa district                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          |
|   35 | Delhi                      | NCT of Delhi                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    |