India's crude oil output during April grows by 11% y-o-y

02 Jun 2011 Evaluate

Crude oil output in India went up by 11 percent to 3.2 million metric tons in the month of April from a year earlier, registering its seventeenth straight monthly rise after non-state company Cairn India made its presence felt by boosting production from Rajasthan oil fields. The data released by Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, also showed that natural gas production fell for the fifth straight month in April.

The official data showed that refinery output rose an annual 6.6 percent in April, its fifth consecutive monthly rise however, the rate of growth eased as compared to March month since crude processing at private refineries declined. Asia’s second-biggest energy consumer also registered 9.3% decline in output of natural gas to about 4.1 billion cubic metres in April from a year ago as output from the Reliance-operated D6 block in the east coast declined after touching about 60 million cubic metres per day. The output from fields started to decline from October last year because of technical problems in the reservoir.

Out of the total refiners in India, the 17 public sector refineries processed around 10.4% more crude oil, during the month, while the combined output of the private refineries declined 1.7% from a year ago.

Reliance Industries, whose two refineries at Jamnagar in western Gujarat state account for about a third of India's refining capacity, does not report data for its 580,000 bpd export-focused plant to the government. The data also does not include crude processing by 120,000 bpd Bina refinery in central India.

While the global crude oil market hasn't paid much of an attention to Indian crude oil production, the recent report of an 11% gain in Indian April crude production may be seen as a negative for the world energy markets, but that potentially negative news was countervail by the fact that Indian refiners saw their activity levels rise in excess of 6%, which in turn points to decent ongoing product demand in India.

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