ONGC's Sagar Samrat rig starts oil, gas production off Mumbai
Indian state-owned energy producer ONGC on January 2 announced that its offshore drilling rig Sagar Samrat has been commissioned as a mobile offshore production unit (MOPU) offshore Mumbai.
Sagar Samrat will handle up to 20,000 barrels/day of crude oil, with a maximum export gas capacity of 2.36mn m3/day and is expected to add 6,000 b/day of oil to ONGC’s production. The first oil from the WO-16 cluster has flowed into the processing system of MOPU, the company said.
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WO-16 is a cluster of four marginal fields in the Arabian Sea at a water depth of 75-80 m and 130 km from Mumbai which is about 40 km from the Mumbai High. “Since no nearby facility exists to produce from this field, it was planned to install a MOPU for production, processing and transportation of oil and gas from the WO-16 Cluster,” ONGC said.
The project to convert the jack-up rig Sagar Samrat into a MOPU was awarded to a consortium of Mercator Oil & Gas, Mercator Offshore and Gulf Piping Company in November 2011. It was successfully installed close to the WO-16 wellhead platform in April 2022.