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Coronavirus Outbreak: ONGC gas output drops 15% as shut factories refuse to take supplies

Press Trust of India • April 13, 2020, 16:27:46 IST
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State-owned ONGC has been forced to cut natural gas production by over 15 percent as factories shut down following the unprecedented nationwide lockdown have refused to take supplies

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Coronavirus Outbreak: ONGC gas output drops 15% as shut factories refuse to take supplies

New Delhi: State-owned ONGC has been forced to cut natural gas production by over 15 percent as factories shut down following the unprecedented nationwide lockdown have refused to take supplies. Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC), which produced 64.3 million standard cubic meters of gas per day (mmscmd) prior to the lockdown imposed on 25 March, has reduced the flow to 53.4 mmscmd, sources aware of the development said. Gas sales are down to 40 mmscmd against 50 mmscmd previously, they said. The difference between production and sales is due to the fact that some of the gas is also used by ONGC for internal consumption purposes such as power generation and re-injection into wells. [caption id=“attachment_6061961” align=“alignleft” width=“380”]Representational image. Reuters Representational image. Reuters[/caption] Sources said the company received requests from customers for a reduction in gas supplies while some supply reduction requests have been lodged with the gas transporter GAIL. Click here to follow LIVE updates on coronavirus outbreak The customers refusing gas supplies are mostly small companies whose business has been completely shut because of the lockdown, and city gas distributors who have seen volumes vanish after CNG vehicles went off the road. In the most far-reaching measure undertaken by any government to check the spread of coronavirus pandemic, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had announced a three-week-long nationwide lockdown, with effect from 25 March. The lockdown meant offices and factories, barring those involved in essential supplies business, were to be shut and people were to stay at home. There are indications that restrictions on the movement of people and goods are likely to continue after 14 April when the lockdown ends. So far, 9,152 persons are reported to have infected with the virus and as many as 308 killed. The national capital and some states had imposed lockdown and placed a restriction on movement of people even before the nationwide lockdown was declared. This had impacted fuel consumption and demand. A separate source said GAIL, the nation’s biggest gas transportation and marketing company, had seen volumes drop to 76 mmscmd from about 115-120 mmscmd prior to the lockdown. “There is about 30 percent hit in the gas that is being transported through GAIL pipelines,” he said. While factories across sectors have been shut down following the lockdowns, the ones seeking stoppage or reduction in gas intake are mostly in the Gujarat region. Gas is used as a fuel in a variety of industries - from glass to fertilizer plants. Large factories such as fertilizer plants continue to use gas as they have been classified as essential commodities. The demand for gas has also been hit as all vehicles, barring the ones used by law enforcement agencies and those used in maintaining essential supplies, have gone off the road. This meant vehicles run on compressed natural gas (CNG) too have gone off the road in cities ranging from Delhi to Mumbai to Ahmedabad. Lesser CNG vehicles meant lesser need of gas and so city gas distributors too have sought a reduction in the volumes they used to take from GAIL/ONGC, the sources said. Indraprastha Gas Ltd, the company that retails CNG to automobiles and piped cooking gas to households in the national capital and adjoining cities, has already shut two-thirds of its CNG dispensing pumps in view of the demand constraints.

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