मािसक �रपोटर

MONTHLY REPORT
प्राकृितकगैस त
उ ्दन, उपलब् ता और खपत
Natural Gas Production, Availability and Consumption

माच� 2019 / March 2019

पे�ोिलयम योजना एवं िवश् लषण �कोष्

(पे�ोिलयम और �ाकृ ितक गैस मं�ालय)

Petroleum Planning & Analysis Cell

(Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas)

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Monthly Report on Natural gas production, availability and consumption –

March 2019

1. Highlights of the report for the month of March 2019 are as follows:

• Gross production in March 2019 was 2816 MMSCM (increase of 1.2% over the
corresponding month of the previous year).
• Total import of RLNG during March 2019 was 2206 MMSCM (decrease of 14.4% over
the corresponding month of the previous year).
• Natural gas available for sale during March 2019 was 4421 MMSCM (decrease of
7.4% over the corresponding month of the previous year).
• Total consumption during March 2019 was 4576 MMSCM. Major sectors were fertilizer
(29%), power (21%), CGD (17%), refinery (13%), and petrochemicals (7%). RLNG
accounted for 52% of total gas consumption.

2. Domestic Natural Gas Gross Production:

Qty in MMSCM
▲1.2%
2783 2816

446 ▼16.2%
532
Pvt./ JVs 235
237 ▼0.7%
OIL
ONGC

2135 ▲6.0%
2014

March 2018 March 2019(P)

Totals may not tally due to rounding off

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Qty in MMSCM
Cumulative Production
▲0.7%
32649 32873
▼13.6%
Pvt./ JVs 6338 5477
OIL 2881 2722
▼5.5%
ONGC

24675 ▲5.3%
23429

2017 - 2018 2018 - 2019(P)

Totals may not tally due to rounding off

3. Domestic Natural Gas Net Production for Sale:

Natural gas producing companies use some quantity of gas for their own use as internal
consumption while some quantity of gas is flared as a part of technical requirement. After flare,
loss and internal consumption by gas producing companies, the net production for sale of
domestic gas to consuming sectors like power, fertilizer, CGD, refinery, petrochemicals etc. was
approximately 78.7% of the gross production during March 2019.

Qty in MMSCM

2198 ▲0.8% 2216

▼18.1%
418 342
Pvt./ JVs.
191 ▼2.4%
OIL 195
ONGC

1683 ▲6.2%
1586

March 2018 March 2019(P)

Totals may not tally due to rounding off

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Qty in MMSCM

▲0.4%
25929 26039

▼15.4%
Pvt./ JVs
5007 4235
OIL ▼6.8%
2368 2207
ONGC

▲5.6%
18553 19597

2017 - 2018 2018 - 2019(P)

Totals may not tally due to rounding off

4. LNG imports:
LNG was procured during the month by Petronet LNG Ltd., GAIL (India) Ltd., Gujarat State
Petroleum Corporation Ltd., Reliance Industries Limited, Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd.,
Torrent Power Ltd. and Indian Oil Corporation.

LNG imports
Qty. in MMSCM
▲2.6%

26328 27015

▼14.4%

2578 2206

March 2018 March 2019(P) 2017 - 2018 2018 - 2019(P)

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5. Total Natural Gas Available for Sale:

Qty in
MMSCM

4776 ▼7.4% 4421

LNG import ▼14.4%

Domestic NG net
2578 2206
production for sale

▲0.8%

2198 2216

March 2018 March 2019(P)

Totals may not tally due to rounding off

6. Sectoral Consumption of Natural Gas:

Qty. in March 2019(P)

MMSCM

824
R-LNG 217
consumption 323
721
522 468 273 285
Domestic gas 472
122 50 298
consumption

Figures have been rounded off

Total consumption during the month of March 2019 was 4576 MMSCM. RLNG accounted for
52% of total gas consumption.