Bokaro Dy Commissioner Mukesh Kumar visited ONGC's Coal Bed Methane plant at Saram in Gomia block here on Thursday. He was accompanied by local administrative officials, along with senior executives of the CBM.
During the meeting with ONGC officials Kumar discussed on land acquisition hurdles. Later the officials along with DC visited Saram CBM plant. Kumar assured them for all short of administrative help in erecting the biggest project .DC also said that more than 2000 peoples will get directly and indirectly job in this CBM plant.
ONGC officials said that two of the four blocks in Karanpura and Bokaro would now start production by the second half of 2019-20. The natural gas extracted from coal beds is expected to produce as cumulative plateau production after development of all the four blocks in the tune of 1.7 million metric standards cubic metres per day, said Pradhan on the occasion.
ONGC is planning to supply CBM to industrial units through pipelines. At present CBM is being supplied to the industrial units in cylinders. At present situation ONGC having no any technical problem in digging well in Jharkhand and company is doing good job in and getting all possible cooperation from land acquisition Department, said an official. ONGC was allocated nine CBM blocks of which it holds four, located at Jharia, Bokaro (Gomia), North Karanpura and Raniganj in West Bengal. Refusing to divulge the CBM reserve capacity in these areas, ONGC officials said the company development plan is for the next 25 years. Sources said the company has completed the exploration process. It is now the process of getting the production license from Government. The company sources said it has proposed to sell its gas at the market discovered price as provided in its CBM contract.
It has mentioned that since it was isolated in the case of these stand-alone blocks ,it faced many concerns and ,therefore wanted a rope in a joint operator ,so far it has spend about Rs 2800 crore only in Bokaro. Those who were present on the occasion Bermo SDM Prem Ranjan,SDPO Satish Chandra Jha, along with ONGC officials Sandeep Kumar, R.P.Panday,Prabhakar Pandit Manjit Singh, SK Pal Sudeepta Chakrabarti and others.