据能源经济12月22日消息称，周二，国有的印度石油公司(IOC)表示，已收购印度天然气交易所近5%的股份。印度天然气交易所是印度首个国家级自动化天然气交易交易所。IOC 加入了石油和天然气勘探公司 ONGC、天然气公用事业公司 GAIL Torrent Gas Pvt Ltd 和阿达尼道达尔天然气有限公司等公司的行列，这些公司已经分别获得了IGX 5% 的股权。

IGX是印度首个自动化的国家级天然气交易所，它确保了天然气价格的透明发现，并促进了天然气在印度能源框架中的增长。

印度最大的炼油和燃料营销公司 IOC 表示，收购IGX的股权是其进入印度天然气市场的一个战略机遇，并增加其在市场上的影响力，以实现在市场上的领导地位。

预计 IGX 将在促进实现政府的目标中发挥重要作用，即到 2030 年将天然气在印度能源篮子中的份额从目前的 6.5% 增加到 15%。

该交易所于 2020 年 6 月 15 日作为天然气交易平台开始运营，并自 2020 年 12 月起作为天然气交易所运营。该交易所在石油和天然气监管委员会(PNGRB)的监管框架下运营。

IOC在另一份文件中表示，其董事会已批准902.8亿卢比的投资，铺设一条从古吉拉特邦蒙德拉到哈里亚纳邦帕尼帕特的原油管道。

该管道每年将有1750万吨进口原油从古吉拉特邦港口运输到其位于哈里亚纳邦的炼油厂。

朱佳妮 摘译自 能源经济

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.