Marginal fields are discovered fields, considered uneconomical for development at a point, under the prevailing fiscal, technology or regulatory regime.
The government will also hold discussions with stakeholders on how to make coal-bed methane more effective. Government-controlled Oil and Natural Gas Corporation had earlier said its marginal field policy was so outdated that it did not find contractors to work for it, owing to poor investment returns.
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It has about 20 marginal fields having an estimated 10.6-million tonnes of oil and oil equivalent gas, which the company says can be recovered over 10 years.
A few years ago, ONGC had gone into service contracts for its marginal fields but that had not worked well.