据油气新闻5月30日消息称，印度国家石油天然气公司在提交给证券交易所的文件中称，在2022-2025财年，该公司将投资3100亿卢比（40亿美元），在过去三年里增长了50%，以加强其勘探努力。

印度是世界第三大石油进口国和消费国，其80%以上的石油需求依靠船运。这个亚洲第三大经济体希望将其石油和天然气资源货币化以减少进口费用。

该公司表示：“印度石油天然气公司还计划在这方面利用与知名全球巨头的国际合作，谈判已进入后期阶段。”

该国最大的勘探公司表示，将每年投入资金进行地震勘测和钻探115-120口井，以“探测约17亿吨尚未发现储量的石油和石油当量天然气”。

印度石油天然气公司还向全球石油公司提供股份，以帮助开发该国东海岸具有挑战性的油田。

曹海斌 摘译自 油气新闻

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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.