{"id":399951,"date":"2021-02-10T12:24:33","date_gmt":"2021-02-10T06:54:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=399951"},"modified":"2021-02-10T12:39:06","modified_gmt":"2021-02-10T07:09:06","slug":"supply-assurance-to-add-more-gas-consumers-in-the-east-santosh-chandra-ceo-essar-oil-and-gas-exploration-and-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/supply-assurance-to-add-more-gas-consumers-in-the-east-santosh-chandra-ceo-essar-oil-and-gas-exploration-and-production\/","title":{"rendered":"Supply assurance to add more gas consumers in the east: Santosh Chandra, CEO, Essar Oil and Gas Exploration and Production"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Essar Oil and Gas Exploration and Production (EOGEPL) recently dispatched its maiden compressed coal bed methane (C-CBM) natural gas cascade truck for Bengal Gas Company\u2019s first CNG station in Kolkata. The Raniganj East CBM Block in West Bengal, with its 348 wells, is a flagship asset of the company with a significant volume of CBM gas resources where it has invested more than Rs 4,000 crore. Santosh Chandra, CEO, EOGEPL, tells FE\u2019s Anupam Chatterjee the steps the company has taken to promote gas among local industries and why he is optimistic about the future of gas.<\/p>\n<p>How have the first few years of running CBM operations been in Raniganj?<\/p>\n<p>We had developed this field in anticipation of offtake from the upcoming GAIL pipeline. There were delays on both these fronts which capped our ability to increase production. So, in the last few years, we put in a lot of effort in developing local industries, mostly small and medium iron foundries, to convince them to switch to gas from coal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Essar Oil and Gas Exploration and Production (EOGEPL) recently dispatched its maiden compressed coal bed methane (C-CBM) natural gas cascade truck for Bengal Gas Company\u2019s first CNG station in Kolkata. The Raniganj East CBM Block in West Bengal, with its 348 wells, is a flagship asset of the company with a significant volume of CBM gas resources where it has invested more than Rs 4,000 crore. Santosh Chandra, CEO, EOGEPL, tells FE\u2019s Anupam Chatterjee the steps the company has taken to promote gas among local industries and why he is optimistic about the future of gas. How have the first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,195,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-399951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399951\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}