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RIL Hits Gas Reserves Off Orissa Coast

Reliance Industries — the country’s largest private sector oil and gas company — has struck gas again. This time, it is off the Orissa coast in the Bay of Bengal. The in-place reserves is estimated to be about four to five trillion cubic feet.

Another voice from TSP for gas pipeline - and tops the list of desire to deepen economic co-opeartion !

If RIL goes with this rate of discovery, we might start exporting gas to TSP and Bangaladesh in next 10 years

Sorry to rain on your parade, but India remains a very low producer/consumer of Natural Gas. Current production is 80-90 MMSCM/day. I feel that by 2007 India can easily consume 200-250 MMSCM/day if gas can be provided at $3.5-4.0/ MMBTU.

Even with Reliance K-G basin coming online say in 2006-7 production will not be greater than 120 MMSCM/day (assuming no further discoveries). Production has already started declining at the country's largest gas field at Bassein. Today production at Bassein is 30-35 MMSCM/day, by 2007 it wil be down to 5-10 MMSCM/day.

We remain a long-long way from adequate availability of gas, let alone export.

Worlds largest natural gas producers:
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/rankorder/2180rank.html

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This article on Gas availability in 2010-11 takes an even more pessimistic view. It says gas production in 2010-11 will be ~95 MMSCM/day. This would be the most pessimistic view in my opinion as it assumes absolutely no new discoveries between now and then.

Also I dont think the numbers here include LNG imports.

Reliance catches up with ONGC in gas

Pipelines or pipe dreams?

Getting gas from Dauletabad through Afghanistan to Pakistan and into India is also riddled with legal hurdles. The very first company that came up with the idea was The Bridas Group, an Argentine company. The Government of Turkmenistan commissioned Bridas to map the geology of a north-south pipeline. In 1995, the Benazir Government also granted construction rights to Bridas. In 1996, Bridas obtained a 30-year concession from the Rabbani Government to build an 875-mile gas pipeline.

By that time Unocal, the California based oil giant, had woken up. Unocal hired Henry Kissinger, Robert Oakley (one-time U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan), and Richard Armitage (the current deputy defense secretary) to do its lobbying. Both Benazir of Pakistan and Niyazoy of Turkmenistan were pressurised to break their deal with Bridas (for Unocal’s benefit). Bridas, in return, filed a suit with the International Chamber of Commerce and won.

Anyone who thinks that we can export gas is smoking something illegal.

I think whoever takes that sarcastic remark (with a smiley) seriously is under influence of some controlled substance.

But you never know........they found 20 TCF gas in last 12 to 18 months with this rate if RIL finds 200TCF gas in next 10 years they might start exporting but not to BD or TSP for sure.

But the remark was meant for humor :wah:

Iran and India on verge of big LNG deal

http://www.business-standard.com/bsonline/storypage.php?bKeyFlag=BO&autono=2149

Talks With Iran On LNG Price Inconclusive

I am trying to collect information on all the LNG deals in India, please fill in information I may have missed:

1)Petronet, Dahej:
LNG supplier: RasGas, Ras Laffan, Qatar
Regasification plant: Dahej, Gujarat
Capacity: 5 MMTPA LNG (~20 MMSCM/day)
First gas: February, 2004

2)Petronet, Kochi (speculative)
LNG supplier: RasGas, Ras Laffan, Qatar
Regasification plant: Kochi, Kerala
Capacity: 2.5 MMTPA LNG (~10 MMSCM/day)
First gas: ?

3)Petronet, Dahej expansion (speculative)
LNG supplier: RasGas, Ras Laffan, Qatar
Regasification plant: Dahej, Gujarat
Capacity: 5.0 MMTPA LNG (~20 MMSCM/day)
First gas: ?

4)IOC/ONGC/GAIL, Iran LNG (under negotiation) link
LNG supplier: Iran, (LNG train location?)
Regasification plant: ?
Capacity: 5.0 MMTPA LNG (~20 MMSCM/day)
First gas: ?

5)Dabhol Power Corporation (speculative, regasification plant mostly complete)link
LNG supplier: Oman LNG
Regasification plant: Dabhol, Maharashtra
Capacity: 1.6 MMTPA (~6 MMSCM/day)
First gas: ?

GE Shipping takes delivery of second VLCC

More Indian shipping companies are acquiring tankers nowadays.

contract awarded in sudan for new pipeline

http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/businessline/blnus/02061106.htm

Russia plays energy card

AN excellent overview of what is happening withn Russia and the "Great Game" Russia is playing with the West in CAR countries.

Some interesting excerpts for India...

India Okay With Gas Pipeline If Pak Offers Security Guarantee (says Natwar)

http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_full_story.php?content_id=60757

WTF ??

PM's help sought to check slide in petro cargo

This is pure BS!!! Why should the railways even have a say on this issue? If costs come down due to pipelines, should it still be transported through rail just to keep railways revenue up?

Even as TSP offers "International guarantees on security of pipelines", the main Sui gas pipeline bursts and sabotage is not ruled out.

More info on the gas pipeline blast
One trying to blame the other just to protect one's own turf. But, going by what we have seen over sevaral years, the feeling of deprivation and cheating in Balochistan, and the agenda of PONAM, it should be a sabotage.

if at all a pipeline is built through pakistan it will be inshore rather than on land.

at the very least it will have to bypass baluchistan.

Nutwar Singh :wah:

Does this name calling really make us feel that we are adding value to the discussion?

Cairn's Mangala oil field very successful

Well done Cairn !

The deepening crisis in Balochistan - TFT

TSP fears more attacks

Ashok Leyland to develop port, rail link for Chahbahar port.

as if the flood situation in the NE is not enough, these numbskulls attack a gas pipeline.

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Rebels attack Assam gas pipeline

By Subir Bhaumik
BBC correspondent in Calcutta

Ulfa military chief Barua (right) told the BBC it carried out the
attacks
Firefighters in India's north-eastern state of Assam have put out a
gas pipeline blaze caused by an explosion claimed by rebels late on
Thursday.
It was one of a series of blasts which rocked Assam during the day.

A fire also erupted on an oil pipeline in the neighbouring state of
West Bengal.

An outlawed separatist rebel group, the United Liberation Front of
Assam (Ulfa), said it was behind all the incidents.

The head of Ulfa's military wing, Paresh Barua, told the BBC that his
group carried out three blasts in Assam as well as the oil pipeline
blast in West Bengal.

Army called out

The fire in the gas pipeline in northern Assam's Baiganbari area was
brought under control more than 10 hours after it broke out.



Parts of the 40cm pipeline, operated by the state-owned Oil India
Limited (OIL), were destroyed.

The company's officials told the BBC that a huge fire erupted at
Baiganbari after the explosion ripped open the pipeline which feeds a
liquefied petroleum gas plant at Duliajan town, where the OIL
headquarters are located.

A fire broke out in an oil pipeline near the Mahananda rail bridge in
West Bengal at around the same time as the Assam blast.

The army was called out to douse the flames in the oil pipeline and
the fire that threatened to engulf a passenger train near a bridge
that connects the state to Assam.

Two more explosions took place on Thursday - one in the Assam capital
Guwahati and the other in the western Assam town of Bongaigaon.

Six people including three policemen were injured in the blast.

Earlier this month, Ulfa rebels threw grenades at several cinema halls
in Assam where Bollywood films were being screened.

A security adviser to the Assam government, Jaideep Saikia, told the
BBC that Ulfa had regrouped after recent setbacks.

The attacks in Assam come as the state government, police and army are
all busy coping with monsoon floods that have displaced nearly five
million people.

Ulfa is targeting oil and gas installations to prevent what a rebel
spokesman describes as the exploitation of Assam's oil and gas
resources by the federal government.

Oil pipeline dream: Mani wants 'conversation without commitments'

This joker Mani along with Natwar are slowly leading India's foreign policy into a state of confusion & chaos.

Much effort has been expended linking the terrorism issue as the highest priority before any talk of energy pipelines. Now this guy comes along and turns everything upside down.

Not long from now, they will be forced to return to the original position causing yet more confusion.

Whatever these guys are smoking - its pretty bad stuff! Do we want to develop at the expense of our security?

The 9/11 Commission Report has the following regarding the TAP pipeline: