Exemption to specified goods imported in connection with off-shore oil exploration or exploitation - 196/89 - Customs -Tariff

Rescinded vide Notification No. 21/97-Cus dated 1-3-1997 Exemption to specified goods imported in connection with off-shore oil exploration or exploitation Notification No. 196/89-Cus. Dated 30-6-1989 In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) of section 25 of the Customs Act, 1962 (52 of 1962), the Central Government, being satisfied that it is necessary in the public interest so to do, hereby exempts the goods specified in the Table below, when imported into India in connection with the purposes of off-shore oil exploration or off-shore oil exploitation, from so much of that portion of the duty of customs leviable thereon which is specified in the First Schedule to the Customs Tariff Act, 1975 (51 of 1975) as is in excess of the amount calculated at the rate of 25 per cent ad valorem and from the whole of the additional duty, if any, leviable thereon under section 3 of the said Customs Tariff Act, subject to the condition that the importer produces, at the time of clearance of goods, a certificate issued by the Member-Secretary of the Empowered Committee on the Indigenisation of the Oil Field Equipments and Services of the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, Government of India certifying that the said goods are essential for the purposes of the said off-shore oil exploration or off-shore oil exploitation. TABLE S. No. Description of goods (1) (2) 1. Off-shore drilling Rigs including Jack/up Drilling, Drilling Rigs, Drill ships, semi-submersible Rigs. 2. Drilling Bits and Coring bits including Nozzles. 3. All types of Tubular used for Drilling, Production and transportation of Oil and Gas including Casing Pipes, Drill Pipes, Line Pipes, Production Tubing and Kellys. 4. (a) Drilling Equipment. (b) Draw-works, Crown Block, Prime Movers for Drilling Equipment, Motor and Alternators for drilling equipment. Mud pumps, Gear Boxes and Transmission for drilling equipment. Torque Converter and clutches for drilling equipment. 5. Down Hole Tools, including Reamers, Stabilizers, Hole Openers and Under Reamers. 6. (a) Miscellaneous drilling equipment. (b) Core Barrels, Drill Collars, Safety Tools, Well-heads, X-mas Trees, Casing Scrappers, Liner Hangers, Casing Hangers, Mud Line Suspension System, BOP Accumulator Units, Choke and Kill Manifolds, Directional and Horizontal Drilling Tools, Pup Joints, Floating Equipment, Cement Retainer, Bridge Plug, Setting Tools, Gasoline and Swabbing Equipment. 7. Mud conditioning Equipment including share shakers, Mud Agitators, Desander, Desilter, Degasser. 8. Stationary or Skid Mounted and Mobile Cementing Units including Cementing Bunkers. 9. Handling Tools, including Elevators, Casing Tongs, Tubing Tongs, Manual and Hydraulic Tongs, Drill Pipe Spinner, Slips Fishing Tools, Junk Baskets, Fishing Magnets, Junk Subs, Fishing Jar, Drilling Jar. 10. High Pressure Hoses, Rotary and Vibrator, Hoses Cementing and Circulating Hoses including rubberized components, Casing Thread Protectors, Drill Pipes Thread Protectors, Drill Pipe Wipers. 11. Oilfield chemicals. Mud chemicals, Well Stimulation Chemicals, Water Injection Chemicals, Oil Flow Improvers including Tri Ethyl Glycol, Pour Point Depressant, Corrosion Inhibitors, Methyl Diethanol Amine (MDEA), Ethyl Mercaptaine, Antifoam, Ferrochrome Lignosulphonate, Sulphonated Asphalt, Chrome Lignite, Sintered Bauxite, Polyanionic Cellulose. 12. Oilwell Class G Cement and Cement Additives. 13. Production equipment including Gas Lift Equipment, Stimulation equipment, Production Testing Equipment, Single and dual completion equipment, Down-hole Testing Equipment, Well Completion equipment, including Expansion Joints, Mandrels, Tubing Hangers, Sliding Sleeves, Landing Nipples. 14. Pressure Control equipment, Production Packers, Gravel Pack equipment, Chicksons, Pup Joints, Wire rope, Lubricating System, Plunger Lift. 15. Oil and Gas Separators, Heater Treaters, Oil and Gas Burner Surge Gas Blowers, Exhaust Gas Turbocharger. 16. Various type of Oil Pumping Sets, Air and Gas Compressor Unit, Transformers, Gas and Diesel Engines for Pumping sets/Compressors, Down-hole Motors, Chemical Injection Pump, Equipment for Transportation of Crude Oil and Gas through Pipe Lines. 17. Diving System. 18. Sub-surface equipment, including Sucker Rod Pumps, Sucker Rods Adapter Flanges and Spools. 19. Well completion and Wireline equipment, Wireline Winches, Wireline Tools. 20. Mobile and Stationary Cranes. 21. Explosives and Fire Fighting equipment, Fire and Gas Detection equipment including H2S Monitor and Fire Fighting materials. 22. Common Depth Point (CDP) Cables, Logging Cables, Connectors, Geophone Strings, Photographic Paper, Perforation Equipment, Explosives. 23. Geophysical Data Acquisition Survey and Processing equipment including DFS-V with Tape Transport, Air Gun, Streamer, Streamer Oil, Gyre Processing System, Bottom Hole equipment and samplers. 24. Geological Equipment, Instruments and Control Devices, Chlorinator Geo-scientific laboratory equipment, Process and Control equipment, Interface level detector, Plotter. 25. Reservoir Engineering Equipment. 26. Oilfield and laboratory Chemistry equipment, Instruments including Fann V.G. Meter, Moisture Meter, Spectrometer, TOC Analyser, Fluorescence Meter, Gas Chromatograph. 27. Non-sparking Tools, Neutron Gamma Rays Tools and equipment. 28. Drill Stem Testing (DST) equipment. 29. Safety and Pollution Control equipment, including life raft. 30. Seismic Units, Vibrosis Units, Open Hele Logging Units, Production Logging Units, Mud Logging Units and Ni-cd batteries. 31. Process platforms, Well platforms, Production platforms, Water Injection Platforms, Top Deck Equipment and equipment required on these platforms including process equipments gas and power Turbines, Pumps, Generators, Primemovers, Compressors, Electric Motors, Early Production Floating System. 32. Mud engineering, logging and cementing equipment. 33. Coating and Wrapping Materials for Flowlines and Trunk Pipelines. 34. Cranes, Trenchers, Equipment needed for installation of platforms and laying of pipelines. 35. Single Buoy Mooring including Hoses and Ropes, Power Management System, Bow Thruster, Azimuth Thruster, Controllable pitch transverse propeller. 36. Subsea Pipeline and equipment. 37. Telecommunication and Telemetry equipment. 38. Anodes for Cathodic Protection System. 39. Equipment for Oil Terminals for locating faults in buries pipes and cables. 40. Sub-surface valves and equipment. 41. Marine ship equipment including water maker, D.P. system Diving System. 42. Control panels including TG, MOL, Central, Local Control Panels, Shutdown Panels, Air-conditioning and Ventilation D/G SW Cooling Pump. 43. Synthesised VHF (Aero) and VHF (Marine) Multichannel sets. 44. Non-Directional Radio Beacons, Intrinsically Safe Walkie Talkies, Directional Finders, EPIRB, Electronic Industrial Security Devices like Electronics Access Control System. 45. Specialised Antenna Systems, Simplex Telex Over Radio Terminals, SITOR Terminals, Multichannel Microwave System, Independent Side Band Radio, Rhota Control Transponders, Digital Microwave Radio, Test and Measurement equipment. 46. X-band Radar Transporters, Area Surveillance System. 47. Various type of High Pressure valves. 48. Sub-assemblies, tools and spares including Warranty replacements for the goods covered by this notification. 49. Consumables for running, repairs and maintenance of goods covered by this notification. 2. The notification shall come into force on the 1st day of July, 1989.