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Government to support oil PSUs in case of US sanctions: Dharmendra Pradhan

11 Mar 2015 Evaluate

Government is likely to lend a helping hand to Indian oil PSUs in protecting their economic interest from being impacted in the eventuality of US sanctions against them for investing in Iran. Recently, Government Accountability Office (GAO) of US named Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC), Indian Oil Corp (IOC) and Oil India (OIL) along with two Chinese firms for having energy ties with Iran, an act for which it can impose sanctions against them.

Petroleum Minister Dharmendra Pradhan though has not elaborated the details but has said that we will look at ways how our companies won’t be affected by any adverse situation. He further said that “India will take its own stand, independent diplomatic stand on the issue,” he said. “Certainly economic interest of our companies and country will be priority.”

The US Iran Sanctions Act provides for steps against persons, including foreign firms, investing more than $ 20 million in Iran’s energy sector in any 12-month period. ONGC, IOC and OIL have been named for having 40 per cent, 40 per cent and 20 per cent interest respectively in the Farsi block of Iran, though the three companies have said that exploration contract (for Farsi block) expired in 2009 and that they had not carried out any activity after 2007 in the Farsi Block. They had proposed investing $5.5 billion to produce gas from the 21.68 trillion cubic foot discovery they made in the offshore area located near the Saudi Arabian border.

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