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Oil and Gas

Oil and Gas
  • Gujarat is the only state in India with a 2,200 km integrated gas grid that is operated on an open access, common carrier principle.
  • Districts covered are Valsad, Navsari, Surat, Bharuch, Vadodara, Anand, Kheda, Ahmedabad, Gandhinagar, Mehsana, Sabarkantha, Surendranagar, Rajkot.
  • ONGC has oilfields at Ankleshwar and Gandhar in Bharuch district. ONGC has struck O&G blocks, in Charada-3 offshore block in Cambay basin, Matar and Karjan taluka area of Vadodara district in Gujarat.
  • Essar is looking at setting up its own terminal at Pipavav. It is also planning for developing its 0.75 tcf coal bed methane (CBM) block in Mehsana, Gujarat, having recoverable gas reserve.
  • GSPC (50% stake) with Adani Group (20-25% stake) to set up a five MMTPA LNG import terminal at Mundra port.
  • Shell-Hazira terminal, also will see its capacity being raised from 2.5 MT a year to 3.6 MT a year.

Petroleum Chemical & Petrochemical Investment Region (PCPIR)

  • Spread over 453 sq km of brownfield area in the coastal belt of Gulf of Khambhat, in Bharuch District
  • In close vicinity of other existing GIDC chemical estates, viz. Jhagadia, Ankleshwar, Panoli and onsite chemical port terminal & LNG terminal at Dahej
  • ONGC Petro Additions Ltd (OPaL) JV company promoted by Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Ltd. (ONGC) and Gujarat State Petroleum Corporation (GSPC) to act as anchor tenant
  • The proposed industrial SEZ in the PCPIR includes, petrochemical and downstream petrochemical industries, synthetic organic chemicals, Industrial gas producing industry, packaging industry, shipbuilding/fabricating unit and other small chemical industries

Technical Education Infrastructure

  • In collaboration with Gujarat Energy Research & Management Institute (GERMI) and Gujarat State Petroleum Corporation (GSPC), a Petroleum University (Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University) has been established in Gandhinagar
  • Executive Training & Development Center: offers short term certificate programmes for executives and professionals in the energy and petroleum sector
  • There is an O&G Research and Innovation Center
  • There are 39 Engineering colleges in Gujarat
  • There are 49 Polytechnics in Gujarat. Some of them located near the existing O&G clusters
  • There are 46 private and Government Management institutes in Gujarat including Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad.
  • The university has the following constituent institutes:
    • Institute of Petroleum Technology
    • Institute of Petroleum Management

Government Initiatives

  • Ahmedabad competing for world heritage city status
  • Awarded best state in e-governance initiatives and employment category in 2008.
  • Stable political climate
  • Urban development initiatives for high quality living
  • Simplification of processes and single window approach for investors
  • International campaigns for investment promotion across sectors
  • Wide array of choices for tourists right from heritage monuments, archeological sites , wild life and beaches.
  • Favorable policy and regulatory environment
  • Industrial Policy 2009 on the anvil – for high quality socio economic development
  • Sectoral policies for promotion of investment and growth
  • Incentives under SEZ, SIR and Industrial Area development
  • Subsidies for environment protection
  • A leader in encouraging private participation under public-private partnership
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