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ONGC starts oil production in Bengal

IBJ Bureau
Dec 28, 2020

West Bengal gets included in ONGC’s oil and gas map, with its eighth field in Ashoknagar in West Bengal starting commercial production. ONGC first extracted 20 kilolitres of crude oil from the Ashoknagar oilfields early last November and had sent it to Indian Oil’s Haldia refinery for processing. ONGC will dig 13 wells in the coming three years in the newly-awarded acreages. It has started fresh geo-scientific activities, comprised of appraisal programme. The last round of bidding was done in January 2020. Ashoknagar oilfields is set to produce gas of 1 lakh cubic meters per day and oil between 15 and 18 cubic meters per day.