Exloration of Shale Gas Reserves in the Country
The Minister of Petroleum & Natural Gas Shri S. Jaipal Reddy informed the Rajya Sabha in a written reply tabled today that after success of shale gas exploration and exploitation in United States of America (USA), several countries including India have initiated steps for exploring shale gas potential of their sedimentary basins.
He also informed that based on the data gathered from exploration and exploitation of conventional oil and gas, it is expected that sedimentary basins of India have potential for shale gas, Shri Reddy added that the estimation of shale gas resources in the country is in progress. So far, no shale gas block has been awarded for exploration in the country through bidding.
The Minister further said that reduction in dependency on imports of oil and gas by the end of Twelfth Five Year Plan will be known only after complete resource assessment, award of Shale Gas blocks, drilling/completion of wells and assessing production potential of Shale Gas blocks.
In reply to another question tabled in the House, MoS (PNG) Shri R.P.N. Singh informed that for Government has initiated steps for the assessment of shale gas prospectively in selected on land basins. Shri Singh further stated that Shale Gas exploration & exploitation requires drilling of horizontal wells & multi-stage hydraulic fracturing. These technologies, he said, are also used in conventional oil/gas exploration & exploitation. “ The Service Providers associated with these technologies are already having establishments in India. Therefore, required technologies can be made available through Service Providers as well as National Oil Companies having in-house capabilities in these areas,’’ the Minister added.
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