ONGC finds gas, oil in two basins offshore India

March 1, 2019
ONGC has made two recent discoveries offshore India, the company revealed in its latest results statement.

Offshore staff
NEW DELHI, India – ONGC has made two recent discoveries offshore India, the company revealed in its latest results statement.

Well GKS091NFA-1 was drilled in block GK-OSN-2009/1 Kutch Offshore in Gujarat State, northwest India, flowing gas during a test. ONGC said the result suggests the play could extend across a large area.

In NWMH Extn. PML in India’s Western Offshore basin well B-203-2 flowed 783 b/d of oil and 78,571 cu m/d of gas from an interval within an early Oligocene Mukta sandstone formation.

A limestone interval in the Heera formation also flowed oil and gas. The discovery confirmed a westward extension of the WO-4 plays in the downdip direction.

03/01/2019