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Oil India was formed in 1959 to operate this new field and other nearby concessions, with Burmah Oil holding 2/3rd equity holding and Government of India holding 1/3rd equity. Later in 1961, this was changed to 50/50 shareholding. In 1982, Burmah Oil transferred all its shares to Government of India and Oil India became 100% Government owned.
The Jamnagar Refinery belonging to India-based Reliance Industries Limited is now one of the most complex refineries in the world with a Nelson complexity index of 21.1. [ 6 ] The Oil and Gas Journal annually calculates and publishes a list of refineries with their associated Nelson complexity index scores.
Proven oil reserves are those quantities of petroleum which, by analysis of geological and engineering data, can be estimated, with a high degree of confidence, to be commercially recoverable from a given date forward from known reservoirs and under current economic conditions.
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The Indian basket of Crude Oil represents a derived basket comprising Sour grade (Oman and Dubai average) and Sweet grade (Brent Dated) of Crude oil processed in Indian refineries. During the year 2018-19, the ratio is 75.50 : 24.50 (Dubai : Brent respectively) [2] and during the year 2017-2018, the ratio was 74.77 : 25.23 (Dubai : Brent).
India was the second top net crude oil (including crude oil products) importer of 205.3 Mt in 2019. [ 4 ] By March 2021, India's domestic crude oil production output fell by 5.2% and natural gas production by 8.1% in the FY21 as producers extracted 30.4917 Mt of crude oil and 28.67 BCM of natural gas in the fiscal year.
The Indian Oil Group owns and operates 11 of India's 23 [29] refineries with a combined refining capacity of 80.7 million tonnes per year. [30] Indian Oil's cross-country pipeline network, for the transport of crude oil to refineries and finished products to high-demand centres, spans over 13,000 km.
In January 2014, OVL and Oil India completed the acquisition of Videocon Group's ten percent stake in a Mozambican gas field for a total of $2.47 billion. [16] In June 2015, Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) gave a ₹ 27bn ($427m) offshore contract for the Bassein development project to Larsen & Toubro (L&T). [17]