(a) whether India is likely to take a quantum jump in the field of Hydrocarbon in
the coming years;
(b) if so, the details thereof;
(c) the potential of Hydrocarbon deposits of the country at present;
(d) the steps taken to find out hydrocarbon deposits of the country and to exploit the same;
(e) whether there is any major improvement in the search of Hydrocarbons by the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC); and
(f) if so, the details thereof?
MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF PETROLEUM & NATURAL GAS (SHRI DINSHA PATEL)
(a) Yes Sir. As per the draft XI Five Year Plan Programme, major activities in
hydrocarbon Exploration & Production sector are expected to take a quantum jump as
against the likely achievements in X plan.
(b) the details are at Annex.
(c) Total prognosticated hydrocarbons resources of the country have been estimated
about 28 billion tonnes. As on 1.4.2006, out of this, in place oil and gas reserves
of 8.7 billion tonnes has been established.
(d) Following steps have been/are being taken to explore and exploit hydrocarbon
deposits in the country:-
# Carving out more and more areas for areas for exploration for offer under various
round of New Exploration Licensing Policy (NELP).
# Quicker development of discovered reserves for enabling commencement of production.
# Use of simulation techniques for increasing production from existing fields.
# Application of Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR)/ Improved Oil Recovery (IOR) techniques
for increasing recovery factor from existing fields.
# Acquisition of exploration acreages and producing properties overseas to bring in
equity oil.
# Supplementing efforts to explore non-conventional energy sources such as bio-diesel,
ethanol, etc.
(e)&(f):-ONGC has achieved its X-Plan ( 2002-07), targets for the seismic
data acquisition. Against the planned target of 35286 Line Kilometers of 2 D seismic
and 34834 sq.km 3D seismic the total acquisition as on 01.01.2007 has been 59144
Line Kilometers of 2 D seismic & 81169 sq.km of 3 D seismic. Against planned
exploratory well drilling target of 561 wells the achievement as on 01.01.2007 has
been 550 exploratory wells. During the same period (2002-07) against the planned
inplace accretion target of 548.43 million metric tonne (MMt) Oil + Oil Equivalent
Gas (O+OEG), the total inplace accretion as on 01.04.2006 has been 507.24 MMt(O+OEG).
For 2006-07, as inputs are all inplace, ONGC would possibly be achieving its
exploratory drilling and in place accretion targets before the end of this year.
Due to application of EOR/IOR techniques, incremental oil gain was 22.6 MMT by ONGC
from 2000-01 to 2005-06.