Rio de Janeiro17th March 2011

byR.C.Agrawalla

Coordinator-NDR, DGH

Country Update - INDIA

India

• Official name : Republic of India • Government : Federal Republic• Area : 3.288 million SKM• Population : 1.2 billion • Capital : New Delhi • States : 28• Union Territories : 6• Other major cities : Mumbai, Kolkata,

Chennai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad & Ahmedabad

Pre-Independence

OALP

NELP era

Pre NELP era

Nomination era

1886 - 1946 1947 - 1990 1990 - 1996 1997 – 2011 Future

Liberalizing Upstream Industry

PSC Regime

NDR Project Plan

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Initial Population & Operation Phase

NDR opens business for DGH, Participants & www users

2013 2014 2015

Proposed Name of NDR

Indian National Data Repository

(INDR)

Agency Responsibility

DGHDirectorate General of Hydrocarbons- a Govt.

Regulatory Agency under the Ministry of Petroleum and

Natural Gas has been mandated to promote and manage

the Indian Petroleum and Natural Gas resources,

effectively and efficiently with a balanced regard to the

environment, safety, technology and economy of India.

DGH is responsible for the development of framework

and monitoring of policies related to all phases of

upstream petroleum activities within India.

Geographical Scope

ONSHORE AREA (MM

SKM)

OFFSHORE AREA

(MM SKM)

TOTAL (MM SKM)

Total Area of India 3.288 1.745 5.033

Sedimentary Area

percentage of the total

area

42% 100% 62%

Total Sedimentar

y Area1.390 1.745 3.135

Geographical Scope of INDR covers both onshore

and offshore areas

Regulator’s Role

•Provide all input data for NDR population and operation

•Setting up of NDR’s strategic direction

•Coordinating the data entitlement framework & guidelines with E&P Operators and other users

•DGH shall be the focal point and the central body to coordinate with E&P Operators, Academia and other stakeholders.

Operation of NDR

•Contractor to run the NDR on a turn key project basis on behalf of DGH .

•State owned

•Contractor to Build, Populate and Operate on Turnkey basis

Major purposes

• Facilitate the Bidding Rounds and support Launching of Open Acreage Licensing Policy (OALP)

• Promotion of E&P activities

• Creation of new business opportunities where society, industry and research communities benefit

• Improve DGH’s ability to monitor and control the E&P activities and reporting

• Data Preservation and National Archive

Data types and volume

NDR will be populated, in the next five years, with geo-scientific data of the magnitude of 8,500 wells, associated logs, cores and reports 1,150 2D & 3D seismic surveys 1.0 million LKM of 2D Seismic post stack 0.5 million SKM of 3D Seismic processed 0.5 million LKM of 2D Seismic field data 0.5 million SKM of 3D Seismic field data 34,000 scanned logs and 2,300 Seismic reports Other non-seismic datasets and reports

NDR Size:– 100 TB of SAN storage online– 250-slot-LTO4 robotics near-line

Access method

• DGH will provide web based access to end users through redundant leased lines having high bandwidth (>10Mbps).

• User’s terminals will be made available in INDR centre.

Data submission

• All legacy data as well as future data in digital media.

• Self-service uploading by the operator is optional.

• Some reports like well, acquisition and processing reports to be submitted hardcopy as well in addition to mandatory digital form.

Data Publication/Release

• As per PNG Rules, data of non-proprietary nature can be released immediately.

• For proprietary data, after 5 years.

Funding Model

• 100 % state funded.

• Funded through

Oil Industry Development Board, Government of India.

Service Charges/Standards Used

• Service charges are being formulated.

• Generally accepted NDR standards to be used

Challenges

• Data Collection

• Enforcement mechanism for data submission

• Cooperation from E&P operators

• Large volume of Legacy data

Success

• Proposed NDR is expected to provide significant thrust to E&P activities in India

Lessons learned

• Gained knowledge from collaboration with NPD, Norway.

• E&P Operators’ participation very vital for NDR success.

• Better to set short term goals and achieve the same

Website link & Contact person

•www.dghindia.org

Contact Person:

Mr R.C.Agrawalla

rca@dghindia.org;

ndr@dghindia.org

NELP-IX round of bidding

6 onshore blocks are Frontier blocks.

8 onshore blocks are “S”-type blocks.

Bid closing date:

28th March, 2011

No. of blocks on offer : 34

Onshore blocks : 19

Shallow water blocks : 8

Deepwater blocks : 7

Thank you