據能源經濟12月22日消息稱，周二，國有的印度石油公司(IOC)表示，已收購印度天然氣交易所近5%的股份。印度天然氣交易所是印度首個國家級自動化天然氣交易交易所。IOC 加入了石油和天然氣勘探公司 ONGC、天然氣公用事業公司 GAIL Torrent Gas Pvt Ltd 和阿達尼道達爾天然氣有限公司等公司的行列，這些公司已經分別獲得了IGX 5% 的股權。

IGX是印度首個自動化的國家級天然氣交易所，它確保了天然氣價格的透明發現，并促進了天然氣在印度能源框架中的增長。

印度最大的煉油和燃料營銷公司 IOC 表示，收購IGX的股權是其進入印度天然氣市場的一個戰略機遇，并增加其在市場上的影響力，以實現在市場上的領導地位。

預計 IGX 將在促進實現政府的目標中發揮重要作用，即到 2030 年將天然氣在印度能源籃子中的份額從目前的 6.5% 增加到 15%。

該交易所于 2020 年 6 月 15 日作為天然氣交易平臺開始運營，并自 2020 年 12 月起作為天然氣交易所運營。該交易所在石油和天然氣監管委員會(PNGRB)的監管框架下運營。

IOC在另一份文件中表示，其董事會已批準902.8億盧比的投資，鋪設一條從古吉拉特邦蒙德拉到哈里亞納邦帕尼帕特的原油管道。

該管道每年將有1750萬噸進口原油從古吉拉特邦港口運輸到其位于哈里亞納邦的煉油廠。

朱佳妮 摘譯自 能源經濟

原文如下：

Indian Oil acquires 5 per cent stake in Indian Gas Exchange

State-owned Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) on Tuesday said it has acquired a nearly 5 per cent stake in Indian Gas Exchange Ltd - the country's first automated national level exchange for the trading of natural gas. IOC joins the likes of oil and gas explorer ONGC, gas utility GAIL Torrent Gas Pvt Ltd and Adani Total Gas Ltd which already have acquired 5 per cent equity each in IGX.

IGX is India's first automated national level gas exchange, which ensures transparent price discovery in natural gas and facilitates the growth of natural gas in India's energy basket, it added.

IOC, the nation's largest oil refining and fuel marketing firm, said the acquisition of an equity stake in IGX is a strategic opportunity for it to become part of India's natural gas market and to increase its presence to achieve a leadership position in the market.

IGX is envisaged to play an important role to facilitate achieving the government's target of increasing the share of natural gas in India's energy basket from the current 6.5 per cent to 15 per cent by 2030.

The exchange started operations on June 15, 2020, as a gas trading platform and has been operating as the Gas Exchange since December 2020. The Exchange operates under the regulatory framework of the Petroleum and Natural Gas Regulatory Board (PNGRB).

In a separate filing, IOC said its board has approved an investment of Rs 9,028 crore for laying a crude oil pipeline from Mundra in Gujarat to Panipat in Haryana.

The pipeline will have a capacity to transport 17.5 million tonnes of imported crude oil per annum from the Gujarat port to its refinery in Haryana.