Name : Bharath Maheshwari Roll no.

: 17PE10022

Shale Gas Potential of India

1. Shale Gas / Oil Resource

The Government of India has carried out studies through various national and
international agencies for the identification of shale oil and gas resources in the
country. The country holds promising reserves of Shale Gas & Oil resources and the
following sedimentary basins are considered prospective from Shale oil and gas point
of view:

1. Cambay Basin
2. Gondwana Basin
3. KG Basin
4. Cauvery Basin
5. Indo-Gangetic Basin
6. Assam & Assam-Arakan Basin

Estimates of shale gas carried out by some agencies are as under:

1. ONGC in August, 2013 has estimated Shale Gas resources of 187.5 TCF for 5
basins namely Cambay, Krishna Godavari, Cauvery, Ganga and Assam.
2. Central Mine Planning and Design Institute (CMPDI): in July, 2013 has
estimated Shale Gas resources of 45.8 TCF for one basin, namely Gondwana.
3. United States Geological Survey (USGS) in January, 2011 estimated
Technical Recoverable Shale Gas of 6.1 TCF in three basins namely Cambay,
KG & Cauvery.

2. Shale Gas Exploration

In order to promote Shale Gas and Oil exploration in India, the Government of India
on 14th December, 2013 notified the policy guidelines for exploration and
exploitation of Shale gas and oil by National Oil Companies (NOCs) in their onland
Petroleum Exploration Lease (PEL) / Petroleum Mining Lease (PML) blocks
awarded under the nomination regimes.
As per policy guidelines, ONGC Ltd. and Oil India Ltd have to carry out Shale Gas
and Oil exploration in 50 and 5 blocks respectively for assessment under Phase-I.
ONGC is carrying out Shale Gas and Oil exploration activities in Cambay, Cauvery,
Krishna Godavari and Assam and Arakan Basins. Oil India Ltd is carrying out Shale
Gas and Oil exploration activities in Assam and Rajasthan basins. In phase II and III
ONGC is to carry out exploration in 75 and 50 blocks respectively. Oil India is to
carry out exploration in 5 blocks each in Phase II and III. So far ONGC has drilled 23
wells in 19 blocks. Presently, shale exploration activities are in progress in Cambay
and KG Basins where two wells [exclusive shale assessment well NDSGA (NADA#37)
in Cambay Basin and dual objective well NGSAA (Nandigam South#1) in KG Basin]
are under drilling.