Question : IMPORT OF CRUDE OIL

(a) the quantum of crude oil imported from various countries including Saudi Arabia during the last three years and the current year;

(b) the details of foreign exchange utilized for import of crude oil during the said period; and

(c) the steps taken to reduce the dependence on import of crude oil from foreign countries ?

Answer given by the minister

MINISTER OF PETROLEUM & NATURAL GAS (SHRI MURLI DEORA)

(a) to (c): A statement is laid on the Table of the House.

STATEMENT REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO PARTS (a) to (c) OF LOK SABHA STARRED QUESTION NO.285 TO BE ANSWERED ON 15-04-2010 REG IMPORT OF CRUDE OIL

(a): The details of crude oil imports from various countries including Saudi Arabia during the last three years and the current year are as under:

(Qty. in Million Metric Tonne)


S.No.	Country	2006-07	2007-08	2008-09 (P)#	2009-10 (Apr-Jan) (P)
1	Iran	14.701	19.486	21.318	18.451
2	Iraq	13.449	14.293	14.391	13.001
3	Kuwait	11.382	10.305	11.890	10.382
4	Neutral Zone	1.632	2.598	2.766	2.433
5	Oman	0.488	0.277	3.950
6	Qatar	1.727	2.514	2.396	4.684
7	Saudi Arabia	24.626	26.989	25.503	22.347
8	Syria	0.082	0.232
9	UAE	8.755	10.862	13.114	9.350
10	Yemen	4.543	2.194	0.681	2.309
11	Algeria	0.646	0.296	0.263	1.568
12	Angola	2.609	4.336	4.872	7.905
13	Cameroon	0.110	0.113	0.275
14	Chad	0.146
15	Congo	0.247	1.455
16	Egypt	1.930	1.887	1.557	2.673
17	Equitorial Guiena	0.409	1.769	0.281	0.561
18	Equitorial Kenya	0.292
19	Gabon	0.141	0.418	0.136
20	Ivory Coast	0.145	0.146	0.138	0.145
21	Libya	0.130	2.072	0.890	0.812
22	Nigeria	13.067	9.917	10.542	10.711
23	Sudan	0.156	0.943	0.772	0.941
24	Brunei	0.634	0.350	0.846	0.682
25	China	0.141
26	Malaysia	4.731	4.278	3.909	2.180
27	Singapore	0.140
28	South Korea	0.255
29	Brazil	0.422	2.279
30	Columbia	0.710
31	Equador	0.257	1.142
32	Panama	0.072
33	Venezuela	2.317	1.169	6.955	5.038
34	Azarbaijan	0.709	2.109	1.577	1.995
35	Kazakisthan	0.133
36	Russia	0.400	0.358	0.227	1.500
37	Canada	0.080
38	Mexico	1.949	1.374	1.826	1.475
39	Turkey	0.409	0.133
40	UK	0.094
41	Australia	0.165	0.088	0.234
TOTAL	111.502	121.672	128.155	132.529

# Data of RIL (SEZ), Jamnagar Refinery is not included in 2008-09.
(P) â€“ Provisional

(b): The details of the total foreign exchange spent on import of crude oil during the last three years & the current year, are as under:-


Year	Value (US $ million)
2006-07	48,389
2007-08	67,988
2008-09	76,957
2009-10 (upto January 2010)	63,319

(c): The Government has taken various steps to reduce the dependence on import of crude oil from foreign countries, which are summarized below:

i. Carving out more and more areas of exploration for offer under various rounds of New Exploration Licensing Policy (NELP) / Coal Bed Methane (CBM) Policy.

ii. Application of Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR)/Improved Oil Recovery (IOR) techniques for increasing recovery from existing fields and use of stimulation techniques for increasing production from existing fields.

iii. Acquisition of exploration acreages and oil producing properties overseas to bring in equity oil.

iv. Substitution of oil in the transport sector through use of alternative fuels such as Bio-diesel, Ethanol-blended Petrol, etc.

Question : IMPORT OF CRUDE OIL

Answer given by the minister

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