ONGC to use GSPC's under-sea infrastructure for KG find.

State-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC) plans to use Gujarat firm GSPC's undersea infrastructure to bring gas from its KG-basin fields in Bay of Bengal to land.

ONGC had last year signed an agreement to use Reliance Industries' under-utilised KG-D6 infrastructure to move gas from neighbouring KG-DWN-98/2, or KG-D5 block, to land.

The company has now submitted plans to the government to use infrastructure of Gujarat State Petroleum Corp, which has laid out under-sea pipelines and other systems to take gas from its block in the vicinity of Andhra Pradesh, sources said.

ONGC has made 11 discoveries in KG-D5 which it plans to develop in three clusters or groups. In the first cluster, it plans to club gas finds D and E in the northern part of KG-D5 with a discovery in its adjoining G-4 block.

These finds, sources said, are in close proximity to the pipeline system that are to take gas from GSPC's KG-OSN-2001/3 block to onland.

So, ONGC will pump 14.5 million standard cubic meters per day of peak output envisaged from Cluster-1 to the GSPC network for onward transmission to land.


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