Its board at a gathering on Friday authorized USD 687 million capital spending for drilling of recent wells on the agency’s oil and gasoline unit, Cairn Oil & Gasoline, Vedanta stated in a inventory change submitting.
Billionaire Anil Agarwal’s Vedanta Ltd on Friday stated it is going to make investments USD 1.5 billion throughout its oil and gasoline, zinc and metal companies.
Its board at a gathering on Friday authorized USD 687 million capital spending for drilling of recent wells on the agency’s oil and gasoline unit, Cairn Oil & Gasoline, Vedanta stated in a inventory change submitting.
It additionally authorized a USD 466 million phase-2 growth of the Gamsberg zinc mission in South Africa and one other USD 348 million for metal growth.
The USD 687 million “capex funding is in direction of infill wells, improvement and exploration. The strategic precedence for the Cairn Oil & Gasoline enterprise is to extend near-term quantity by infill wells and add sources by exploration,” the submitting stated.
It stated that USD 360 million have been earmarked for infill wells within the prolific fields viz Mangala, Bhagyam, Aishwariya, Aishwariya Barmer Hill (all in Rajasthan block) and Ravva in japanese offshore.
“The exploration work programme with capex funding of USD 327 million shall be unfold throughout the OALP blocks and PSC blocks together with pilot wells for shale,” it stated.
The corporate had bid and received some blocks for exploration of oil and gasoline beneath the Open Acreage Licensing Coverage (OALP) over the previous few years.
The Gamsberg Section II Growth Challenge at a value of USD 466 million will double up capability to eight million tonnes each year to supply further 200,000 tonnes a yr MiC Zinc. “This mission will deliver vital socio-economic profit and can make Vedanta Zinc Worldwide as largest zinc producer of South Africa.” Vedanta stated it is going to make investments USD 348 million in a 3 million tonnes mission of its subsidiary ESL Metal Ltd.
“The metal growth mission with an funding of USD 348 million comes with further blast furnace supported coke ovens, pellet plant, oxygen plant and different auxiliaries and infrastructure upgradation together with railway siding to plant head,” it stated.
“This mission additionally comes with a brand new 0.18 million tonnes Ductile Iron Pipe Plant which can assist us to maximise VAP.” This mission together with debottlenecking will capability to three million tonnes each year with “the bottom quartile value & premium product portfolio,” it added.
