India's Oil and Natural Gas Corp. Ltd. (ONGC) is assessing two discoveries made offshore Mumbai in the Arabian Sea.
The first discovery is in the AMRIT MB-OSHP-2017/1 open acreage licensing policy (OALP) block. The second discovery is in Moonga MBS182HDA-1(MBS182HDA-A) OALP exploration block. The blocks were acquired during the OALP I and OALP III bid rounds (OGJ Online, Jul. 3, 2019).
ONGC has notified the Directorate General of Hydrocarbons (DGH) and the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas (MOP&NG) about the discoveries.

Alex Procyk | Upstream Editor
Alex Procyk is Upstream Editor at Oil & Gas Journal. He has also served as a principal technical professional at Halliburton and as a completion engineer at ConocoPhillips. He holds a BS in chemistry (1987) from Kent State University and a PhD in chemistry (1992) from Carnegie Mellon University. He is a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE).