JOIN USState-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) on Saturday announced three new oil and gas discoveries in Krishna Godavari basin and Mumbai offshore and said it will pay its shareholders an interim dividend of 100 per cent.
The ONGC Board in its meeting on Friday approved an interim dividend of 100 per cent, paying Rs 5 per equity share of Rs 5 each, the company said in a statement here on Saturday.
“The total payout on this account will be Rs 4,277.75 crore out of which the Government of India will receive Rs 2948.08 crore on its shareholding. In addition, dividend distribution tax of Rs 855.55 crore would also be paid,” it said.
ONGC said it has made three discoveries - one in the deepwater KG basin off the east coast, second in the Mumbai offshore basin off the west coast and the third in the Cauvery basin in the southern onland part of the country.
In KG basin offshore, ONGC has made a significant gas discovery in its nomination deep water block, KG-OS-DW-III. The discovery well GD-11-1, located about 43 km to the south of the nearest coastal town of Odalarevu in Andhra Pradesh, was drilled down to a depth of 2,810 metres in water depth of 812 metre to explore the hydrocarbon potential of Pliocene sands.
The Pliocene sequence has indicated the presence of about 36 metres of gas pay which, on conventional testing, has flowed gas at the rate of around 6.5 lakh cubic metres a day.
ONGC has already made five hydrocarbon bearing discoveries from the northward contiguous NELP-VI shallow water block of KG-OSN-2004/1 from a similar play and this discovery has opened up a large opportunity for further assessment of the prospectivity, it said.
In Mumbai offshore, ONGC made a new pool discovery in the well WO-5-11 (WO-5-G), situated around 160 km west from the nearest coastline in Maharashtra.
On testing, the well flowed oil at the rate of around 1,500 barrels per day and gas at the rate of around 10,000 cubic metres per day through half inch bean.