Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC) is set to win seven of the 20 oil and gas blocks auctioned in January while Reliance Industries would bag six.Twenty blocks - 12 onland, 2 shallow water and 6 deepwater - were auctioned under new exploration licensing policy round V (NELP-V) for which the bids closed on May 31."The directorate general of hydrocarbons, which was assigned the task of techno-economic evaluation of bids, has prepared the list for approval of the empowered committee of secretaries," an official said.Reliance Industries has been recommended as the winner for two Kerala-Konkan deepsea blocks while the ones in Krishna Godavari Basin and Mahanadi Basin have been recommended to be awarded to Reliance-Hardy Oil of UK and Reliance-Niko Resources of Canada consortium respectively.ONGC has been suggested winner of the two Andaman Basin deepwater blocks - one on its own and the other in partnership with ENI of Italy and Gail India.The official said ONGC came triumph with both the shallow water blicks, winning the Cambay Basin block on its own and the Gujarat Saurashtra Basin block with Cairn Energy of UK. The consortium of Jubilant Oil, Gujarat State Petroleum Corp and Gail got two onland blocks in Assam Basin while Oil India and Hinudsan Petroleum got the third in the basin.Reliance got the Ganga Valley and Cambay Onland Block. ONGC with Cairn bagged the Vindhya Valley and Krishan Godavari Basin onland block while it got one Rajasthan block with ENI and Cairn. The other Rajasthan block went to Phoenis and Birckbeck Investment.
