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State-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) on Monday said it has become the first gas producer to trade domestic gas on the Indian Gas Exchange, trading unspecified volumes from its eastern offshore KG-DWN-98/2 block. In a statement, ONGC said it will increase volumes slowly. "ONGC has become the first exploration and production (E&P) company in India to trade domestic gas on Indian Gas Exchange. The first online trade was made on May 23, 2022 by ONGC Director (Onshore) & In-charge Marketing Anurag Sharma on India's first automated national level Gas Exchange, IGX," it said. The gas traded is from ONGC Krishna Godavari 98/2 block, it said, but did not specify the volumes that were sold. After the deregulation in gas pricing ecosystem in 2000-21, ONGC has prepared itself to reap the benefits. "The quantity sold by ONGC through the Gas Exchange will be enhanced slowly," it said. Speaking on the occasion, Sharma said ONGC is ready to realise higher value for every ...
Shashi Shanker, former chairman and managing director of Oil and Natural Gas Corporation, has been appointed as an independent director on the board of Adani Total Gas Ltd (ATGL), the company said in a regulatory filing. Shanker, who superannuated as the head of India's largest oil and gas producer on March 31, 2021, was appointed to the board of ATGL on May 4. "This is to inform that, on the recommendation of Nomination & Remuneration Committee, the Board of Directors of the company have appointed Shashi Shanker, as an Additional Director (Non-Executive, Independent) of the company," the filing said. He was chairman and managing director of state-owned ONGC from October 1, 2017 to March 31, 2021. ATGL is a joint venture of billionaire Gautam Adani-led infrastructure-to-energy conglomerate and Total of France for city gas business entailing the sale of CNG to automobiles and piped natural gas to households and industries. The company board is headed by Adani and includes his ...
State-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) has commissioned two projects costing Rs 6,000 crore to add 7.5 million tonnes of oil production and 1 billion cubic meters of gas output over the life of the Mumbai High fields, as it doubles down efforts to raise productivity from mature and aging fields. A Rs 3,740-crore spend has been made on a state-of-the-art 8-legged water injection-cum-living quarter platform, as part of the Mumbai High South Redevelopment Phase-IV, while Rs 2,292.46 crore have been spent on Cluster-8 marginal field development project at Mumbai High, the company said in a statement. "The two projects will result in an incremental gain of 7.5 million tonnes of oil and more than 1 BCM of gas," it said. Oil Minister Hardeep Singh Puri dedicated the two major projects to the nation at Western offshore on April 23. He was accompanied by chairman Alka Mittal, Director (T&FS) O P Singh and Director (Offshore) Pankaj Kumar. "The minister expressed his ...