Essar Oil and Gas Exploration and Production (EOGEPL) has filled and dispatched the first-ever Compressed Coal Bed Methane (C-CBM) Natural Gas cascade truck for Bengal Gas Company’s maiden CNG station, to be supplied by the state-run gas major GAIL (India).
EOGEPL is an investee company of Essar Global Fund (EGFL) and India’s largest operator of unconventional hydrocarbon acreages.Â
EGFL’s investments in EOGEPL are a part of its investment portfolio in exploration and production businesses which are increasingly focused on clean energy.
The Raniganj East CBM Block in West Bengal is a flagship asset of EOGEPL with a significant volume of CBM gas resources. The Raniganj CBM field has 348 wells, associated gas gathering and compressor facilities and about 300 km of infield and customer pipelines.
The Kolkata city gas distribution network is spearheaded by Bengal Gas Company, a joint venture between GAIL India and the Greater Calcutta Gas Supply Corporation.