On July 7, the University of Houston officially opened the UH-Directorate General for Hydrocarbon Data Center, a data repository that grows more opportunities in India’s sedimentary basin and fields. To celebrate the opening of the new University of Houston (UH) – Directorate General for Hydrocarbon (DGH) Center for Hydrocarbon Exploration, UH Energy hosted an informative symposium that focused on hydrocarbon basin analysis, policy shifts, and hydrocarbon opportunities in India.
The Data Center is a partnership between UH and the DGH, which is the technical arm of the Indian Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas. It includes a geoscience data repository with display capability and software to interpret key exploration and production (E&P) data and extensive knowledge of India’s sedimentary basins and fields.
India’s oil demand is expected to reach 11 million barrels per day by 2045, according to the India Brand Equity Foundation, a trust created by the country’s Department of Commerce. In the 2022 fiscal year, India imported 4.24 million barrels per day while producing 600,000 barrels per day, the IBEF found. The center opening will continue a wave of developments at UH. In the fall, the university plans to build a $52 million, 70,000-square-foot Innovation Hub near the M.D. Anderson Library on UH’s main campus. The hub is expected to open in 2025 and will house several existing UH institutions and programs, including the Energy Transition Institute.
The five-year agreement aims to provide reliable and high-quality information – including seismic, well, reservoir, and production data – for research and development, as well as to investors and companies based in the Greater Houston area and the Gulf Coast to encourage commercial opportunities involving Indian offshore offerings.
