據天然氣加工網站10月9日消息 印度石油天然氣公司財務負責人表示，最近印度天然氣價格的下調將使該公司在截至3月份的本財年天然氣業務收入減少約10億美元。

印度已將未經競標就交給勘探商的老區塊天然氣價格下調了約四分之一，降至多年來的最低水平，即1.79美元/每百萬英熱單位。

印度石油天然氣公司通過老區塊生產7000萬標準立方米/天天然氣的95%以上。

財務總監Subhash Kumar表示，生產成本平均約為3.60-3.70美元/每百萬英熱單位，這意味著自天然氣價格下調以來，該公司虧損2美元/每百萬英熱單位，損失約1000億盧比的收入。

Kumar在股東大會后的新聞發布會上說：“但由于我們不必為這一損失納稅，最終將達到600-700億盧比（8.21-9.58億美元），這是天然氣業務的凈虧損。”

印度石油天然氣公司主席Shashi Shankar在新聞發布會上表示，印度需要使天然氣價格對生產商有利，以提高當地產量，因為該國希望到2030年將清潔燃料在其能源結構中的份額從目前的6.2%提高到15%。

（1美元=73.0522盧比）

吳恒磊 編譯自 世界天然氣

原文如下：

ONGC sees gas revenue hit by $1 billion due to price cut

A recent cut in Indian gas prices will wipe about $1 billion off Oil and Natural Gas Corp.’s (ONGC) revenue from its gas business in the current fiscal year ending in March, the company’s finance chief said.

India has slashed prices of gas produced from old blocks - handed to explorers without bidding - by about a quarter to a multi-year low of $1.79 per MM metric British thermal units MMBtu).

ONGC produces over 95% of its 70 MM standard cubic meters per day (mmscmd) of gas output through old blocks.

Finance chief Subhash Kumar said production costs averaged about $3.60-3.70 per mmBtu, which means it is making a loss of $2 per mmBtu since the gas price cut, losing about 100 billion rupees of revenue.

“But since we don’t have to pay taxes on this loss, eventually it comes to 60-70 billion rupees ($821 million-$958 million). That is the net loss in the gas business,” Kumar told a news conference after a shareholders’ meeting.

India needs to make gas prices ‘remunerative’ for producers to boost local output as the country wants to raise the share of the cleaner fuel in its energy mix to 15% by 2030, from 6.2% currently, ONGC’s Chairman Shashi Shankar told the news briefing.