ONGC Onshore Assets Operations

Awaiz Khan (19CHB527)

Industrial Visit/Training CHC4910

Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) Limited is an integrated oil
exploration and production company. The Company conducts its
exploration activities through ‘Basins’ and production activities
through ‘Assets’. Presently, the Company has 13 crude oil producing
Assets both in offshore and onshore areas.

It is engaged in the oil exploration, development, and production of

crude oil and natural gas. Its segments include Exploration &
Production (E&P), and Refining.

… a consistent & reliable energy solution provider for the country

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ONGC Group
 accounts for production of ~ 1.24 million barrels per day of

Oil plus Oil-equivalent Gas

 refines ~ 12.6 MMTPA ;

 extracts ~ 3.2 MMTPA of LPG, Naphtha etc from Gas;

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 ONGC Group
E&P the Core
business

Overseas E&P Refinery Value-chain Services Others

(100%) (71.62%) (26%) (28.77%)

SEZ
(23%)
(49%)
(49*%)
Joint Ventures Subsidiaries

(49%) (26%)
(100%) ONGC Nile Ganga B.V, (50%)
Netherlands
(12.5%)

(100%)
ONGC Amazon Alaknanda
Ltd., Bermuda Power
(100%)
(50%)
Jarpeno Limited, Cyprus

(100%)
Carabobo One AB,
Netherlands
* ONGC: 46%, MRPL: 3%
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 ONGC Functional Organization

Assets Basins Institutes Services

Offshore
1. Western Offshore 1. KDMIPE 1. Geophysical
1. Mumbai High 2. Western Onshore 2. GEOPIC 2. Drilling
2. Neelam-Heera 3. Cauvery 3. IDT 3. Logging
3. Bassein 4. KG & PG 4. IRS 4. Well
4. East Coast 5. MBA 5. IOGPT 5. Engineering
6. AA&A 6. IEOT 6. Logistics
Onshore 7. Frontier 7. INBIGS 7. Technical
1. Ankleshwar 8. CBM Project 8. IPSHEM 8. HSE
2. Assam 9. ONGC Academy
3. Mehsana 10.SMP
4. Ahmedabad 11.CEWELL Support
5. Karaikal 12.OEC
1. HR/ ER
6. Rajahmundry 2. Finance
7. Tripura Corporate Functions 3. MM
Plants 4. Legal
1. Uran Planning, E&D, Infocom, Vigilance, Audit, 5. Medical
2. Hazira Marketing, JV&BD 6. Security
3. C2-C3
 50+ Years of Exploration
ONGC discovered
6 out of the 7 producing Basins of India
1889: Assam Shelf
1967: Rajasthan Basin *

1973: A&AA FB

1958: Cambay Basin

1980: KG Basin

1974: Mumbai
Offshore
1985: Cauvery
Basin

* By AR & T Co. - Assam Railways and Trading Company Ltd.

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 Processing Infrastructure
Hazira, Gujarat

h Handling Capacity: 42 MMSCMD Sour Gas

Products: LPG, C2-C3, LAN

Uran, Maharashtra

h Handling Capacity: 20 MMTPA Oil & 16 MMSCMD Gas

Products: LPG, ARN, SKO, ATF, Propane, HSD

Ankleshwar and Gandhar, Gujarat

h Handling Capacity: 0.1 MMTPA Oil & 1 MMSCMD Gas
Products: LPG, Naphtha
LPG Liquefied Petroleum Gas
SKO Superior Kerosene Oil
C2-C3 Ethane- Propane
Tatipaka, Andhra Pradesh
HSD High Speed Diesel
LSHS Low Sulphur Heavy Stock h Handling Capacity: 0.1 MMTPA Oil
ATF Aviation Turbine Fuel Products: Naphtha, SKO, HSD, Fuel Oil
LAN Low Aromatic Naphtha
ARN Aromatic Rich Naphtha

7 MMTPA- Million Tonnes Per Annum

MMSCMD-Million Standard Cubic Meter per day
Production of crude oil in onshore areas

• Oil and gas produced from wells in an oilfield needs to be

separated, purified of impurities, metered and transported to
refinery or other utilisation centres.
• On onshore processing of crude, several stations and unit
processing plants are setup to perform operations like heating,
separation, desalting, compression of gas, flaring, effluent
treatment etc.
• These operations are carried out one after another as a
specified arrangement. ONGC has developed its own flowsheet
for surface crude oil processing

Some major components of flowchart are as follows:

1) Group Gathering Station 2) Gas Collecting Station

3) Gas Compressor Plant 4) Central Tank Farm

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 Flowsheet

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 GGS (Group Gathering Station)

GGS is an installation which receives oil through manifolds from its

different assigned fields. Oil is separated here in the form of oil, gas and
water. Separated oil is sent to CTF (Crude Tank Farm) for further
treatment, separated gas is sent to GCP (Gas Compressor Plant) through
GCS (Gas Collecting station).

Purpose of GGS:
• Separate oil, gas and water in the most efficient manner
• Treating of oil emulsion for removal of water
• Separation and despatch of high pressure gas from low pressure oil
• Metering oil, gas and water
• Provide temporary storage of oil
• Arrangement for disposal of water and low pressure gas

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 Process Flowchart

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 Gas Collecting Station (GCS)

Its main function is gas collection and distribution. GCS receives

associated gas from GGS and the dry gas directly from where it is
dispatched to GCP (Gas Compressing Plant) for their further
compression. Now the compressed gas is sent back by GCS to GGS for
gas injection in the gas lift wells.

The important operations in GCS are as follows:

Gas Collection: The gas from different wells is collected through the valve
manifold. The manifold is used to collect the gas in a controlled manner. The
gas collected from the wells is wet and contains liquid alkanes.

Gas Measurement (input): The collected gas is passed through the Test
Header, which measures the amount of gas collected from each individual well.
Then the gas is passed to the Group Header from where it is sent to the
separators.

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 Gas Separation: The measured gas is then passed through the
separators which will remove the bulk of liquids from the
associated gas. There are different types of separators used in the
station to free the gas from liquid. The associated liquid collected
is sent to CTF.
Gas Measurement (output):The separated gas is then passed
through Gas Measurement Systems to measure the amount of gas
output. This gas is either exported to consumer, which consumes
gas at LP or sent to GCP to compress the gas and use it for Gas lift
and exporting it to distant consumers.

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 Central Tank Farm (CTF)

CTF receives the oil from GGS. Two types of oil are received from GGS;
treated as well as untreated oil. Treated oil is directly dispatched to desalter
plant through dispatch pumps, removal of water effluent from oil.

Purpose of CTF:
Storage of crude oil
Mixing of different crude oil types based on requirments
Crude oil distribution to the customers

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