ONGC to get 15,000bpd from Sudan oil block

Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) is entitled to receive 15,000 barrels per day (bpd) of crude oil as its share from Sudan's Block '5A' output.

"Mala field in Block 5A is due to come to production in 2007 after which our share from the entire Block 5A output would be 15,000bpd,"  A K Balyan,  director, HR said.

Mala is the second oil field in Block 5A after the Thar Jath field, which is producing 38,000bpd of crude oil. Mala field is expected to start production with 10,000bpd in 2007 which would go up to 20,000bpd by 2008.

ONGC's overseas arm ONGC Videsh (OVL) has a 24.125% stake in Sudan's Block 5A.

Apart from 5A, OVL also has a 25% stake in Sudan's Greater Nile Oil Project (Block 1, 2 and 4), which produces 280,000bpd.

OVL, which entered Sudan in 2003, already has three oil blocks in Sudan. It has also built a 741-km-long multi product pipeline linking Khartoum Refinery to Port Sudan.