The government has approved a higher price of gas for ONGC’s C-Series fields in Mumbai offshore taking a step forward in its policy to bring all gas prices closer to market-determined rates. The C-Series gas priced has been fixed at $ 5.25 per million British thermal unit (mmscmd), which almost a dollar higher than the price at which Reliance Industries sells gas from the its fields in Krishna Godavari basin. Reliance gets $ 4.215 per mmBtu for the gas it produces from KG-D6 fields. The price for ONGC is a tad lower than $ 5.5 per mmBtu which it had sought earlier, said a oil and gas ministry official. The government had recently increased the price of gas sold at controlled price (administered price mechanism or APM gas ) by state owned upstream oil companies to $ 4.2 per mmBtu bringing it at par with KG D-6 gas. Natural gas produced from C-Series fields is sold to Gail which further markets it to end users. ONGC began production from C-Series fields last month and is currently producing between 0.8 to 1.2 million standard cubic meters per day from the wells drilled so far.
The peak output from the field is expected to be 2.8 mmscmd after all the 15 wells are drilled after monsoon season.
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