ONGC Videsh Ltd, the overseas arm of state-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC), in 2008 had discovered a giant gas field in the 3,500 square kilometer Farsi offshore block.
ONGC Videsh, the overseas investment arm of Oil and Natural Gas Corp ONGC.NS, has a stake in Russia's Sakhalin-1 project and sells its share of the oil from the project through tenders.
The consortium of OVL, Indian Oil Corp (IOC), Oil India Ltd and Bharat PetroResources Ltd (BRPL) has relinquished offshore Block-32, two officials with the partners said.
The field holds 23 trillion cubic feet of in-place gas reserves, of which about 60 percent is recoverable.
The project will initially consist of two LNG trains with a total nameplate capacity of 12.88 million tonnes per annum.
The company has now agreed to do just the upstream field development part, leaving the marketing of the fuel to Iran.
The 15 per cent participating interest in Namibia Petroleum Exploration License (PEL) 30, covering Block 2012A from Tullow Oil of UK, is OVL's second acquisition in the African nation in as many months.
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.
ONGC Videsh Ltd today reported a consolidated net profit of Rs 701 crore for the fiscal ended March 31, helped by a rise in oil and gas production.
The licence for Block 2B expired last November and an automatic 5-year extension is available but Sudan, whose revenues have been hit with a drop in oil prices, wanted higher taxes and royalties before it agreed to the same, officials said.
The unit, ONGC Videsh Ltd, and two other state companies, GAIL and Engineers India Ltd, first discussed the idea with Gazprom a few months ago, said Narendra K. Verma, ONGC Videsh's managing director.
Venezuela has agreed to supply crude oil to India on a monthly basis over a two-year period to repay USD 537 million it owes to ONGC Videsh Ltd.
A consortium headed by ONGC Videsh Ltd (OVL), the overseas investment arm of Indian explorer Oil and Natural Gas Corp, discovered the Farzad B gas field in the Farsi offshore block in 2008.
OIL, Indian Oil Corp (IOC) and Bharat PetroResources Ltd (a unit of Bharat Petroleum Corp Ltd or BPCL) is looking at buying a stake in Suzunskoye, Tagulskoye and Lodochnoye fields - collectively known as Vankor Culster, sources privy to the development said.
OVL, which had previously bought 15 percent stake in Vankor from Russian national oil firm Rosneft for USD 1.268 billion, will get additional 3.2 million tons of oil equivalent on top of 4.11 million tons secured earlier.
ONGC Videsh Ltd (OVL) has stakes in 37 oil and gas projects in 17 countries around the world. These stakes are held through subsidiaries, branches and joint ventures. For operations of these projects, those units and joint ventures would raise a demand for money on the parent, OVL, which would transmit the investments.
ONGC Videsh is looking to raise $500 million to $1.1 billion through a US dollar bonds issue to funds its acquisition of 15 percent stake in Russia's Vankor oilfield.
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The sale of 74 percent stake (49 percent to Rosneft and 25 percent some other investor) will help bring down Group debt by half to about Rs 46,000 crore from current Rs 88,000 crore, sources said.
Indian oil firms led by ONGC Videsh Ltd are mulling buying a part of the USD 11 billion stake that Russia is selling in its biggest oil firm Rosneft, Petroleum Minister Dharmendra Pradhan said on June 23
ONGC Videsh Ltd announced completion of acquisition of 15 percent stake in Russia's second biggest oil field of Vankor from Rosneft for USD 1.268 billion, its fourth biggest acquisition
During the visit, the two countries signed 12 agreements including a "milestone" pact on developing the strategic Chabahar port and pledged to combat terrorism and radicalism.
The assertion by the two countries was made after wide-ranging talks between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani with the two sides issuing a joint statement in which they vowed to deepen economic ties in areas of energy, infrastructure, connectivity and investment.
ONGC Videsh Ltd has taken a bridge loan of USD 1.2 billion from a group of foreign banks at a highly competitive rate of about 1.3 percent to fund its acquisition of 15 percent stake in Russia's second biggest oil field of Vankor
Russian government has approved ONGC Videsh Ltd's deal to buy 15 percent in the country's second biggest oil field of Vankor from Rosneft for $1.268 billion.