Abu Dhabi’s Supreme Council for Financial and Economic Affairs (SCFEA) awarded Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) and Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited’s (BPCL) joint venture, Urja Bharat Pte Limited (UBPL), an oil and gas production licence for Onshore Block 1, BPCL announced on Wednesday.
S&P Commodity Insights: the Mahanadi, Andaman Sea, Bengal, and Kerala-Konkan could hold up to 22 billion barrels of crude oil.
Currently, only 10% of India’s 3.36 million sq km wide sedimentary basin is under exploration.
Of India’s 3.14 million square kilometers of sedimentary basins, 1.3 million sq km are in deep waters.
India is set to launch its tenth bidding round for oil and gas blocks in August or September, the Directorate General of Hydrocarbons (DGH) has said. The latest round will include 25 blocks across 13 sedimentary basins, which are essential for exploration and production activities.
At the Clean Cooking Summit organized by the International Energy Agency (IEA), TotalEnergies announced its ambition of giving 100 million people in Africa and India access to clean cooking by 2030. TotalEnergies will therefore invest more than $400 million in the development of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) for cooking.
India’s inflation and economic growth are at risk from the rise in oil prices caused by disruptions in the Red Sea, the government said, highlighting the need to diversify trade routes.
Opec has once again kept unchanged its bullish forecast for oil demand growth this year, even while others including Saudi state-controlled Aramco continue to see much lower levels of growth.
India, the world’s third-biggest oil importer, gets a bulk of its Russian supplies made up over 35% of India’s total crude imports in 2023, amounting to 1 .7 million barrels per day.
A cold snap in the U.S. and continued attacks on ships in the Red Sea have boosted bullish sentiment in oil markets, although increasing product stocks could counter that narrative.
For decades, China has been the leading driver of global oil demand growth thanks to an economy that maintained a blistering growth clip for a long stretch. China’s economy managed to expand at nearly 10% annually ever since Beijing embarked on economic reforms in 1978, ballooning from $1.2 trillion by the turn of the century to nearly $18 trillion in 2021. But as the law of large numbers dictates, that era of exemplary growth could be in the rearview mirror. Economic pundits have predicted that China’s growth rate will slow down to between 2 and 5 percent in the coming years thanks to a declining population and slowing productivity.
Global oil major BP said the world must invest in the production of oil and gas to avoid to sharp price spikes while accelerating the energy transition to combat greenhouse gas emissions