Mumbai-State-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corp. has kicked off India's first commercial exploration of shale gas with the spudding of its first exploratory well-Jambusar-55-at its Cambay Basin block in Gujarat. The oil ministry in September announced its shale gas exploration policy under which state-owned upstream companies ONGC and Oil India Ltd. are allowed to start exploration and production of shale gas at their existing conventional oil and gas blocks awarded on a nomination basis. Nomination blocks were given to the state-owned E&P companies before India launched the New Exploration Licensing Policy- a competitive bidding method-in 1999.
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机译：孟买国有石油天然气公司在古吉拉特邦的Cambay盆地区块首次开采了Jambusar-55探井，从而开始了印度的第一个商业页岩气商业勘探。石油部在9月份宣布了其页岩气勘探政策，根据该政策，国有上游公司ONGC和Oil India Ltd.被允许在提名的现有常规油气区块上开始页岩气的勘探和生产。在印度于1999年发布《新勘探许可政策》（一种竞争性招标方法）之前，曾对国有勘探开发公司给予提名。
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