{"id":496359,"date":"2022-06-06T09:17:46","date_gmt":"2022-06-06T03:47:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=496359"},"modified":"2022-06-06T09:41:32","modified_gmt":"2022-06-06T04:11:32","slug":"great-eastern-energy-to-invest-2-billion-in-shale-gas-exploration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/great-eastern-energy-to-invest-2-billion-in-shale-gas-exploration\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Eastern Energy to invest $2 billion in shale gas exploration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Great Eastern Energy Corporation Ltd, a pioneer in the field of coal bed methane in India, plans to invest about USD 2 billion (Rs 15,000 crore) in exploration of shale gas at its Raniganj South block in West Bengal, its MD &amp; CEO Prashant Modi said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We want to recreate in shale what we did for CBM,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We pioneered exploration, production, and development of CBM in India.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>CBM (Coal Bed Methane) is gas trapped below coal seams.<\/p>\n<p>GEECL signed the first CBM contract in India for the Raniganj South block on May 31, 2001. &#8220;We were the first to commercialise CBM in July 2007,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Great Eastern Energy Corporation Ltd, a pioneer in the field of coal bed methane in India, plans to invest about USD 2 billion (Rs 15,000 crore) in exploration of shale gas at its Raniganj South block in West Bengal, its MD &amp; CEO Prashant Modi said. &#8220;We want to recreate in shale what we did for CBM,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We pioneered exploration, production, and development of CBM in India.&#8221; CBM (Coal Bed Methane) is gas trapped below coal seams. GEECL signed the first CBM contract in India for the Raniganj South block on May 31, 2001. &#8220;We were the first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-496359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496359","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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=496359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}