印度推出新天然气营销机制助市场渡过难关

据天然气加工网站10月7日消息 印度石油部长普拉丹表示，印度将允许从当地新油田生产天然气的公司在电子竞标平台上出售清洁燃料，此举有望帮助它们获得更好的价格并提高产量。

印度希望到2030年将天然气在其能源结构中的比重从现在的6.2%提高到15%，但目前其1.6-1.7亿标准立方米的天然气日需求量的一半依赖进口。

普拉丹说，新的、更加透明的价格发现机制将有助于将东海岸克里希纳-戈达瓦里盆地和该国其他地区的天然气日产量提高4000万标准立方米。

信实工业和石油天然气公司（ONGC）在克里希纳-戈达瓦里盆地经营区块。

普拉丹在新闻发布会上说：“通过电子招标平台获得的定价将适用于2019年2月后批准油田开发计划的天然气发现。”

他说，油气总局将为平台制定指导方针，但他没有透露电子招标机制何时启动。

这位部长还表示，国有石油天然气公司和印度石油公司运营的老区块天然气的现行定价方式将继续执行。

上个月，印度将这些区块的天然气价格下调了约四分之一，至1.79美元/每百万英热单位，为2014年以来最低。

吴恒磊 编译自 天然气加工

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India introduces new gas marketing mechanism to help producers

India will let companies producing gas from new local fields sell the cleaner fuel on e-bidding platforms, oil minister Dharmendra Pradhan said, in a move expected to help them get better prices and boost output.

India wants to raise the share of gas in its energy mix to 15% by 2030 from 6.2% now but it currently relies on imports for half of its daily gas needs of 160-170 million standard cubic meters (mmscm).

Pradhan said the new, more transparent price discovery mechanism would help raise daily gas production from the Krishna Godavari basin on the east coast and other parts of the country by 40 mmscm.

Reliance Industries and Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC) operate blocks in the Krishna Godavari Basin.

“Pricing obtained through the e-bidding platforms will be applicable to the gas discoveries whose field development plan was approved after February 2019,” Pradhan told a news conference.

He said the directorate general of Hydrocarbons would set guidelines for the platforms, though he did not say when the e-bidding mechanism would start.

The minister also said the existing fixed-price formula for gas produced from old blocks operated by state-owned ONGC and Oil India Ltd would continue.

India slashed prices of gas from those blocks last month by about a quarter to $1.79 per million metric British thermal units (mmBtu), the lowest since 2014.