India aims to attract $25bn of investment in natural gas and crude oil in the next few years with the help of sweeping reforms to its exploration and production rules announced last week.
Dharmendra Pradhan, minister of state for petroleum and natural gas, said the new hydrocarbon exploration and licensing policy (Help) and a liberalized gas price regime would help reduce India’s heavy dependence on imported energy over the next 10-15 years.
Basing his calculations on a crude oil price of $45 a barrel, he said the principal aim was to increase domestic gas production at a time of rising demand and falling output. “Forty billion dollars of hydrocarbons will be unlocked for production through this policy reform,” he said in an interview. “To realise this amount we are expecting investment of more than $25bn in the next two to three years.”
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