ONGC Reports New Discoveries

ONGC Ltd, India's state-run oil & gas company,has reported an oil and gas discovery in the Assam-Arakan basin in the northeast and a gas-condensate find in the country's western onshore basin.

The discovery in the northeast opens an area southwest of Geleki main field for exploration of the  TS-3 sands, while that in the west proved the existence of multiple pay sands in the Hazad on the entire block.ONGC said.

The Geleki-334 well on the Namti PML block on the North Assam shelf produced 670 b/d of 32° gravity  oil and 400 Mcfd of gas on a 6-mm bean from Mio-Pliocene Tipam TS 3B perforations at 2,868-77 m and  450 b/d of oil and 450 Mcfd of gas on a 6-mm bean from Tipam TS 3A perforations at 2,804-10 m.

The Aliabet-3 exploratory well on NELP Block CB-OSN-2003/1 in the western onshore basin flowed 1.4  MMcfd of gas and 69 b/d of condensate on a 6-mm bean from the GS 8 sand of the Hazad member perforated at 2,176-81 m and 2,183-84.5 m.

Source: ONGC