India is discussing setting up refineries and LNG plants in Indonesia , Oil Minister Dharmendra Pradhan said today.

In an attempt to increase its presence in its eastern neighbourhood, India is selling diesel to Bangladesh via rail.

“Recently, we have dispatched the first consignment of diesel to Myanmar,” he said at India -ASEAN Partnership@25 conference here. “We are currently in consultation with Indonesia for partnering in the refining and LNG sector.”

He, however, did not give details.

Stating that India ‘s presence in the ASEAN region has been historic, he said one of the country’s oldest overseas oil and gas fields was acquired in 1988 in Vietnam.

“We also have oil and gas assets and equity in gas pipeline in Myanmar. Today, we have a growing engagement with ASEAN region in the hydrocarbon sector,” he said.

ASEAN region, he said, is also a source of crude oil and LNG to meet India ‘s hydrocarbon requirement. Last year, India imported 6 million tonnes of crude oil from Malaysia, Brunei and Indonesia , accounting for 2.8 per cent of the total crude oil imports, which is an increase of 12 per cent from the year before.

It also imported 1.45 million tonnes of LNG mainly from Singapore and Malaysia accounting for 7 per cent of the total LNG imported.

India also imported one million tonnes of petroleum products and some quantities of LPG from the region, he said.

Pradhan said there is a healthy collaboration between oil majors Indian Oil Corporation and Petronas of Malaysia.

The two companies, he said, are working in India and third country. The Malaysian national oil company is a reliable partner in technology.

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