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The increase in production augments well with the government plans for raising the share of natural gas in the country s energy basket India s natural gas production is projected to jump by 52% to 122 million standard cubic metres per day by 2024 as State-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) and Reliance Industries Ltd-BP combine raise output from the KG basin fields.
Natural gas production in 2019-20 was 85 million metric standard cubic meter per day (mmscmd), which is estimated to have fallen to 80 mmscmd in the following year, HDFC Securities said in a report.
The output is projected to rise in the current fiscal that started on April 1 to 93 mmscmd, 107 mmscmd in the following year and 122 mmscmd in 2023-24, the brokerage estimated.
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The increase in production augments well with the government plans for raising the share of natural gas in the country s energy basket to 15 per cent by 2030 from the current 6.2 per cent in a bid to cut emissions.
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India s natural gas production is projected to jump by 52 per cent to 122 million standard cubic metres per day by 2024 as state-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (
Reliance Industries Ltd-BP combine raise output from the KG basin fields. Natural gas production in 2019-20 was 85 mmscmd, which is estimated to have fallen to 80 mmscmd in the following year, HDFC Securities said in a report.
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