The Minister
of Petroleum and Natural Gas Shri S. Jaipal Reddy informed in the
Lok Sabha in a written
reply today that the details oil and gas production from the block
KG-DWN-98/3 during the last three years and current year (Upto
October, 2011) are given below:
|
Year
|
2008-09
|
2009-10
|
2010-11
|
2011-12(upto Oct,11)
|
Total
|
|
Oil
[Million Metric Tonne (MMT)]
|
0.129
|
0.502
|
1.078
|
0.429
|
2.138
|
|
Gas [Billion
Cubic Meter (BCM)]
|
0.079
|
15.10
|
20.40
|
9.91
|
45.49
|
He also said
that Directorate General of Hydrocarbons (DGH) has reported that
the reasons for decline in gas production from D1 & D3 fields in the block
KG-DWN-98/3 is due to drilling of only 22 wells (18 gas producing wells and 4
wells drilled but not connected or put on production) as against the 31
producing wells approved for drilling upto March, 2012
as per the Field Development Plan (FDP). The Contractor has expressed inability
to firm up appropriate drilling locations on plea of geological complexities.
DGH has not agreed to the Contractor’s contention and asked the Contractor to
comply with the approved FDP by drilling more number of gas producing wells in
D1 & D3 gas fields and achieve the FDP approved gas Production Profile. The
Contractor has neither drilled the remaining 9 producing wells nor taken any
alternative action such as revisions of FDP for approval of Management
Committee (MC) as per the provisions of the Production Sharing Contract (PSC).
In addition, he said five out of total 18 gas producing wells in D1 and
D3 fields have ceased to produce gas due to water loading/sand ingress in the
wells. One oil/gas producing well in MA field out of 6 oil/gas producing wells
has ceased to produce oil/gas due to water loading in well.
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