With the government refusing to give clearances, State-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC) and BG Group might have to surrender three energy blocks in the Krishna-Godavari basin, as the blocks fall within the boundary of a proposed naval base. Stringent conditions were put for another 32 exploration areas.
The decision was taken at a meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Investment (CCI) on March 20. Of the 39 contentious blocks, 32 got conditional clearance from the Defence Ministry, while there was some differences in the remaining seven. Reliance Industries’ (RIL) KG-D6 block and the gas discovery area, NEC-26, along with most areas where the company had been either barred any oil and gas activity or put stringent conditions on, were among those that got clearance.
The ministry of petroleum and natural gas would consider allotting alternative blocks to the two operators. They would be allowed to recover the cost incurred in these blocks - KG-OSN-2005/1, KG-OSN-2005/2 and KG-DWN-2009/1 - from any other one allotted to them.
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