The Barmer fields of Cairn India-ONGC can service as many as 6.1 million liquid petroleum gas (LPG) cylinders per month, a company official has said.
The Barmer fields in Rajasthan, which is a 70:30 joint venture between Cairn India and the state-run ONGC, saw an upward revision of its reserves recently. It is now estimated that the Barmer crude can yield enough LPG to fill 6.1 million domestic cylinders of 14.2 kg capacity each per month, a source in the know of the development told PTI.
The potential reserves of the Barmer fileds is now pegged at 6.5 billion barrels of oil equivalent (BOE) in place, and the prospective resource base is now estimated at 2.5 billion BOE. Following this the discovered resource base of this filed has been increased from 3.7 billion to 4 billion BOE, he said.
As production will be ramped up to 1,75,000 barrels oil per day (bopd) by 2010-11, the Barmer will account for over 20 per cent of the domestic crude output. The third production train will be ready shortly and will attain a processing capacity of 1,30,000 bopd, the official said.
Earlier this month, the company started transporting crude to Salaya in Gujarat through the 670-km long pipeline from the Barmer fields to Bhogat in Gujarat. The Barmer-Salaya pipeline section is now operational with oil supplies having commenced to both private as well as PSU refineries from the delivery point at Salaya.
Pipeline sales are expected to reach 1,25,000 bopd in the second half of 2010 and sales arrangements with four buyers are now being put in place for 1,43,000 bopd, he said.