據油氣新聞5月30日消息稱，印度國家石油天然氣公司在提交給證券交易所的文件中稱，在2022-2025財年，該公司將投資3100億盧比（40億美元），在過去三年里增長了50%，以加強其勘探努力。

印度是世界第三大石油進口國和消費國，其80%以上的石油需求依靠船運。這個亞洲第三大經濟體希望將其石油和天然氣資源貨幣化以減少進口費用。

該公司表示：“印度石油天然氣公司還計劃在這方面利用與知名全球巨頭的國際合作，談判已進入后期階段。”

該國最大的勘探公司表示，將每年投入資金進行地震勘測和鉆探115-120口井，以“探測約17億噸尚未發現儲量的石油和石油當量天然氣”。

印度石油天然氣公司還向全球石油公司提供股份，以幫助開發該國東海岸具有挑戰性的油田。

曹海斌 摘譯自 油氣新聞

原文如下：

India’s onGC to boost exploration with $4 bln investment over 3 years

India’s state-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corp ONGC.NS will invest 310 billion rupees ($4 billion) in the fiscal years 2022-2025, a growth of 50% over the last three year period, to intensify its exploration efforts, it said in a stock exchange filing.

India, the world’s third biggest oil importer and consumer, ships in over 80% of its oil needs. Asia’s third largest economy wants to monetise its oil and gas resources to cut its import bill.

“onGC also plans to leverage international collaborations with reputed global majors for this, for which talks are in an advanced stage,” it said.

The country’s top explorer said it would invest funds for acquiring seismic survey and drilling of 115-120 wells every year to “probe around 1700 million tonnes of oil and oil equivalent gas of yet to find reserves”.

onGC is also offering a stake to global oil companies to help develop its challenging fields off the country’s east coast.