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The Reuters report said ONGC is optimistic of winning an exemption from US sanctions on Venezuela.
ONGC, the country's top oil explorer, accepted bids at that level through auction of light sweet oil from its western offshore field, including supplies from the country's flagship Mumbai High fields, they said.
The oil exploration company is expected to have benefitted from lower operating costs and marginal rupee depreciation, while gas realisations are expected to remain stable sequentially.
Oil India Ltd signed up for the remaining four blocks awarded under the fifth bid round of Open Acreage Licensing Policy (OLAP).
The government had offered 11 blocks for exploration and production of oil and gas in the fifth bid round under the Open Acreage Licensing Policy (OLAP).
The Department of Investment and Public Asset Management (DIPAM), erstwhile called the department of disinvestment, had in May 2019 decreed golf courses and sports clubs owned by central public sector enterprises as non-core assets and wanted them to monetise them.
"We expect ONGC's earnings to decline and its credit metrics to weaken because of lower oil prices over the next 12-18 months," Moody's said in a report on Asian national oil and gas companies.
On April 1, the gas price was reduced from $3.23 per mmBtu to $2.39 - an 84 cent reduction which translates into annual Rs 4,000 crore of revenue loss.
ONGC and HPCL bought 17.28 per cent stake each from lenders, the firms said in separate but almost identical regulatory filings.
At 3.375 per cent interest rate, this is the tightest coupon for 10-year or longer tenor offering from India ever achieved by any Indian corporate.
ONGC got $66.30 for every barrel of crude oil produced and sold, down 7.3 per cent from $71.49 a barrel net realisation in April-June 2018.
In a written reply to a question in the Lok Sabha, he said India's top oil and gas producer ONGC as on April 1, 2019, has in place oil reserves of 459.84 million tonnes.
It said companies could bid individually or in groups to work with ONGC on the fields, located in 17 areas and estimated to hold reserves of 300 million tonnes of oil equivalent.
The move to float the unit ” which has investments in 11 producing assets in countries including Russia, Brazil, United Arab Emirates, Sudan and Venezuela ” is part of a government push to sell state assets to raise funds.
"In between there was some break because of financial strain in their country. We hope now PDVSA will be regular and the agreed mechanism will continue," Verma added.
Reliance and its partners BP Plc and Niko Resources filed an arbitration notice against the government in November 2016 after the government imposed a $1.55 billion fine on the consortium for selling gas that migrated from state-owned ONGC's fields in the east coast Krishna-Godavari basin.
ONGC Videsh, the overseas investment arm of ONGC, owns a 27 percent stake in BC-10 block in Brazil.
ONGC aims to drill 535 oil and gas wells in this fiscal year to March 2019, compared with 503 well drilled in the previous year, the company said in a statement.
ONGC had borrowed money from banks to buy government's 51.11 per cent stake in HPCL for Rs 36,915 crore.
India's biggest explorer Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC) is due to sign a contract on Saturday to acquire a stake in Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC)'s offshore oil concession
ONGC holds 13.77 per cent stake in India's biggest refiner IOC, which at today's market price is worth about Rs 26,600 crore. It has another 4.87 per cent stake in GAIL India Ltd, worth Rs 1,637 crore.
The government is making the decision after failing to draw investment from global oil majors in new fields. The plan would boost India's domestic oil and gas output and would meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi's target to reduce oil imports by 10 percent by 2022. However, the plan could reduce profits of state-owned companies.
ONGC, which has opened for commercial production six out of India's seven producing basins, has made a significant natural gas discovery in the Gulf of Kutch of Gujarat coast that can produce about three million standard cubic meters per day, a senior company official said.
Mexico is offering 15 shallow-water exploration blocks in the second round of hydrocarbon auction, called round 2.1. These blocks cover a combined area of 8,908 sq km and hold prospective resources of 4 billion barrels of oil and oil equivalent gas.