India’s Oil & Natural Gas Corp. Ltd. said it will invest $66 million for development of North West B-173A field off the country’s west coast.
ONGC plans one wellhead platform with three wells and production startup by February 2019. The company expects a peak production rate of 2,870 b/d of oil and 56,350 cu m/day of natural gas by 2020.
The field is 5 km northwest of B-173A in 55 m of water. Oil and gas will be shipped south via new pipelines to existing processing facilities in Neelam field.
In April 2014, ONGC drilled the B-173A-8 exploratory well, which resulted in declaration of a field discovery for North West B-173A after it produced 2,246 b/d in conventional testing.
