By OGJ editors
HOUSTON, July 25 -- Reliance Industries Ltd., Mumbai, made the first deepwater hydrocarbon discovery in the Cauvery basin off southeastern India at the company's first well in the basin.
The CY-III-D5-A1 well found a clastic reservoir with a 150-m gross hydrocarbon column in Cretaceous. TD is 4,081 m in crystalline basement in 1,185 m of water.
The main zone drillstem tested 31 MMscfd of gas and 1,200 b/d of condensate, while another deeper zone produced 550 b/d of oil and 1 MMcfd of gas.
The discovery, named Dhirubhai-35, is on 14,325-sq-km Block CY-DWN-2001/2 awarded in NELP III. Reliance holds 100% participating interest in the block.
Reliance noted that in 6 years as an E&P operator it has discovered hydrocarbons in India's four major offshore basins: Krishna-Godavari, Mahanadi, Saurashtra, and Cauvery.
