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Shale Gas
Exploration in India
- Potential, Challenges and Opportunities
February 2013
InfralineEnergy Publications
Dr. V. K. Rao

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Shale gas: A game changer that India should turn to
Shale Gas is the innovation of the decade and Game changer of the energy source. In
India, thick shale deposits are found in many potential basins, but not much efforts have
been made till now to explore the resources. India should actively endeavor to
accelerate shale Gas exploration to bridge the widening gap in energy sector.
Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas
drafts new policy on shale gas
exploration & Exploitation
The Draft policy document envisages
seismic changes in fiscal and contractual
regime to incentivize technologically
advanced explorers to invest in Indian
Shale Gas exploratory ventures. Shale
gas is seen as the new hope for fuelling
India’s burgeoning appetite for
hydrocarbons.
Policy on Shale Gas on the anvil:
Veerappa Moily
Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas,
Government of India has said his
ministry is working on a "positive and
forward-looking" shale gas policy that
would be placed before the Union
cabinet shortly.
Latest Development in Indian Shale Gas Scenario
Shale gas exploration and development is a
buzz word these days and many countries
in the world are now fast tracking the
success story of USA to accelerate their
Shale Gas exploration. The Government of
India, Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas
has already embarked to venture into Shale
Gas Exploration in our country. A number of
MOUs have been signed for assessing our
Indian Shale gas potential and pilot projects
have been undertaken to drill shale gas
wells. A draft shale gas policy has been
circulated by the Ministry to draw views
and opinions from global and domestic
stake holders. The Draft policy is in the
process of finalization. The Ministry is
contemplating to offer the bid round on
Shale gas blocks by Mid-2013 or so. In this
drive towards shale gas, it is of interest to
investigate how in future could shale gas
reserves play a role in facilitating Indian
energy markets.
Shale Gas Exploration in India:
Potential, Challenges and Opportunities

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Shale gas exploration in India
is in nascent stages. Oil and
Natural Gas Corporation Ltd.
(ONGC) has been
contemporaneous in taking an
initiative to explore shale gas in
different sedimentary basins of
the country. Preliminary data
and studies indicate that many
shale sequences in well
explored basins could be
promising such as Gondwana
Basin, Cambay, Krishna-
Godavari, Cauvery, Assam-
Arakan, Rajasthan, Vindhyan
and Bengal Basins.
In this context, InfralineEnergy is coming out with a
Report on:
“Shale Gas Exploration in India:
Potential, Challenges and
Opportunities ”
The Shale gas bidding round is six to eight months
away as per Government utterances in various
forum. This report will serve as a quick reference
guide to Indian scenario for decision makers,
consulting agencies and all other stake holders.
This report is a comprehensive study on the shale
gas scenario in India. What the possibilities are?
Where are they? What is the science and
technology behind these developments?
It answers all of these.
Exhibit 1: Potential Shale Gas Basins
Category-I Basin (proven Commercial Prospectivity)
Category-II Basin (Identified Prospectivity)
Category-III Basin (Prospective Basins)
Category-IV Basin (Potentially Prospectivity)
Pre-Cambarian Basement Tectonised Sediments
Deep Water Areas within EEZ
1. Cambay Basin
2. Gondwana Basin
3. Assam-Arakan
Basin
4. Krishna-Godavari
Basin
5. Cauvery Basin
6. Vindhyan Basin
7. Bengal Basin
8. Rajasthan Basin
Shale Gas Exploration in India:
Potential, Challenges and Opportunities
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Critical Research Points Deliberated
in the Report
 Strategic concerns for India to go for Shale
Gas Exploration
 Potential Shale Gas Basins of India
 The variance in Resource estimates
and perceptions
 Environmental debate and its
possible resolutions
 Operational Challenges and Opportunities
 Do we need a separate Shale Gas policy?
 Shale Gas conundrum and Economic models
 Opportunities for partnership ventures
Future markets and Energy issues
A must buy for:
 Oil & Gas Exploration
Companies
 Oil Field Service (OFS)
Providers
 Technology Providers
 Gas Transportation Companies
 Environmental Agencies
 Consultants & Advisory Bodies
 Government & Regulatory
Bodies
 Planning Agencies
 Power Generators
 Fertilizer Companies
Exhibit 2 : Geological Section across Krishna-Godavari Basin
Shale Gas Exploration in India:
Potential, Challenges and Opportunities
Shale Gas

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Brief Profile of Dr. V. K. Rao
About the Book
1. 1. Preamble
2. 2. Shale - A Sedimentary Rock and Repository
of Organic Material
3. 2.1 Geological Characteristics
4. 2.2 Black Shales
5. 2.3 Depositional Environments of Shales
6. 2.4 Relativity of Factors in Deposition
7. 2.5 Zones of Diagenesis
8. 2.6 Relativity of Factors in Diagenesis
9. 2.7 Summary
10. 3. Shale Gas – Its Generation and
Accumulation
11. 3.1 Concept Transformation
12. 3.2 Unconventional Gas Reservoirs
13. 3.3 The Hydrocarbon Generation
14. 3.4 Kerogen Maturity
15. 3.5. Salient Resource Play Characteristics
16. 3.6 The Resource Triangle
17. 4. Cambay Basin
18. 4.1 Geologic Setting
19. 4.2 Depositional Environments
20. 4.3 Shales in Stratigraphy
21. 4.4 Resource Plays for Shale Gas Prospects
22. 4.5 Salient Shale Parameters of Prospective
Sequences of Cambay Basin
23. 4.6 Discovered Oil/Gas Fields and Shale Gas
Resource Estimates
24. 5. Krishna-Godavari Basin
25. 5.1 Geologic Setting
26. 5.2 Depositional Environments
27. 5.3 Shales in Stratigraphy
28. 5.4 Resource Plays for Shale Gas Prospects
29. 5.5 Salient Shale Parameters of Prospective
Sequences of Krishna-Godavari Basin
30. 5.6 Discovered oil/Gas fields and Shale Gas
Resource Estimates
31. 6. Cauvery Basin
32. 6.1 Geologic Setting
33. 6.2 Depositional Environments
34. 6.3 Resource Plays for Shale Gas prospects
35. 6.4 Salient Shale Parameters of Prospective
Sequences of Cauvery Basin
36. 6.5 Discovered Oil/Gas Fields and Shale Gas
resource Estimates
37. 7. Assam-Arakan Basin
38. 7.1 Geologic Setting
39. 7.2 Depositional environments
40. 7.3 Shales in Stratigraphy 63
41. 7.4 Salient Shale Parameters of Prospective
Sequences of Assam-Arakan Basin
42. 7.5 Discovered oil /Gas Fields and Shale Gas
Resource Estimates
43. 8. Gondwana Basin
44. 8.1 Geologic Setting
45. 8.2 Damodar Valley Basin
46. 8.3 South Rewa Basin
47. 8.4 Pranhita-Godavari Basin
48. 8.5 Rajmahal-Purnea basin
49. 8.6 Shales in Stratigraphy
50. 8.7 Discovered Oil/Gas Fields and Shale Gas
Resource Estimates
51. 9. Other Prospective Basins
52. 9.1 Ganga Basin
53. 9.2 Vindhyan Basin
54. 9.3 Bengal Basin
55. 9.4 Rajasthan Basin
56. 10. Major Shale Gas Basins of USA and
Analogy
57. 10.1 Introduction
58. 10.2 The Barnett Shale Play
59. 10.3 The Fayetteville Shale Play
60. 10.4 The Haynesville Shale Play
61. 10.5 The Marcellus Shale Play
62. 10.6 The Woodford Shale Play
63. 10.7 The Eagleford Shale play
64. 10.8 Analogy of US Shale Gas basins with
Indian Basins
65. 11. Risking Parameters and Spider Diagrams
66. 12. Resource Play Economic Models
67. 12.1 Introduction
68. 12.2 Shale Well Economics
69. 12.3 Resource Play Economics
70. 13. Operational Challenges and Opportunities
71. 13.1 Operational Challenges
72. 13.2 Opportunities for Participation in Shale
Gas Exploration in India
73. 14. Natural Gas Scenario in India
74. 14.1 Natural Gas Sources in India: A Reality
Check
75. 14.2 Other Sources of Natural Gas Supply
76. 14.3 Gas Pricing in India
77. 14.4 Shale Gas: Emerging as a Promising
Source of Natural Gas in India
78. 15. Do We Need a Separate Shale Gas Policy ?
79. ANNEXURE–I
80. ANNEXURE–II
81. ANNEXURE-III
82. Abbreviations
(With more than 150 Illustrations, maps and figures)
Table of Contents
Shale Gas Exploration in India:
Potential, Challenges and Opportunities

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