ONGC discovers oil offshore Mumbai

May 11, 2023
Oil and Natural Gas Corp. Ltd. (ONGC) is assessing two discoveries made offshore Mumbai in the Arabian Sea.

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.

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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).