据普氏能源资讯新德里消息，印度石油部官员周一表示，在最新一轮拍卖中，印度提出在总面积约3万平方公里的地区开辟14个区块，用于油气勘探。

开放面积许可政策第二轮（OALP-II）于1月8日开始招标，3月12日结束。这些区块预计将在5月批出。

该国石油部长Dharmendra Pradhan在拍卖会上称：“我们在石油和天然气区块拍卖中的重点是提高产量，而不仅仅是为国库赚取更多的收入。”

这一轮拍卖将是2016年3月纳伦德拉莫迪政府批准的新油气勘探和许可政策（HELP）下的第二次拍卖。HELP政策是该国政府计划在2022年至2023年之前将印度的石油和天然气产量增加一倍的战略的一部分。

由于印度80%的原油需求依赖进口，印度的石油进口成本一直受到全球价格剧烈波动的影响。新政策保证了更简单的规则、减税、定价和市场自由。

在OALP-II拍卖中，在克里什纳戈达瓦里盆地的深水中提供了一个区块和五个浅水区块，其中两个在安达曼盆地和两个库奇盆地，一个在马哈纳迪盆地。OALP-II还提供八个陆上区块，其中四个在马哈纳迪盆地，两个在坎贝，一个在卡武里和一个拉贾斯坦邦。

此次拍卖提供的区块估计储量为150亿吨的石油和石油当量天然气。

詹晓晶摘自普氏能源资讯

原文如下：

India offers 14 blocks for oil, natural gas exploration auction

India has offered 14 blocks spread across a total area of around 30,000 sq km for oil and gas exploration in the latest auction round under which winning bidders can carve out areas for drilling, oil ministry officials said Monday.

The Open Acreage Licensing Policy second round (OALP-II) opens for bids January 8 and closes March 12. These blocks are expected to be awarded in May.

"Our focus in [the] oil and gas blocks auction is higher production and not solely to earn more revenue to the exchequer," Oil Minister Dharmendra Pradhan said at the launch of the auction round.

This round will be the second auction under the new Hydrocarbon Exploration and Licensing Policy (HELP) approved by Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government in March 2016.

HELP forms part of a government strategy to double India's oil and gas output by 2022-23.

India's oil import bill has been subject to wild swings in global prices as the country is dependent on imports for around 80% of its crude demand.

The new policy promises simpler rules, tax breaks, pricing and marketing freedom.

In the second OALP round, one block has been offered in deep water in the Krishna Godavari basin along with five shallow water blocks -- two each in the Andaman and Kutch basins and one in the Mahanadi basin.

OALP-II is also offering eight on-land blocks -- four in the Mahanadi basin, two in Cambay and one each in Cavuvery and Rajasthan.

The offered blocks are estimated to hold reserves of 15 billion mt of oil and and oil equivalent gas. ?