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ONGC Unit Starts Oil And Gas Production In Arabian Sea
The unit is expected to handle up to 20,000 barrels per day of crude oil, with a maximum export gas capacity of 2.36 million cubic meters per day
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Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited (ONGC) on Monday said that its Mobile Offshore Production Unit (MOPU) ‘Sagar Samrat’ has begun oil and gas production in the Arabian sea.
The MOPU is expected to handle up to 20,000 barrels per day of crude oil, with a maximum export gas capacity of 2.36 million cubic meters per day and is expected to add 6000 bbls/day of oil to ONGC’s production in the coming days, the company said in BSE filing.
ONGC said that the first oil from WO-16 cluster has flowed into the processing system of MOPU and dispatch to onshore terminal commenced.
WO-16 is a cluster of four marginal fields in the Arabian Sea at a water depth of 75-80 metre and 130 kilometre from Mumbai which is about 40 kilometre from the Mumbai High.
The Sagar Samrat was originally a jack-up drilling rig built and was converted to into a MOPU. The project to convert Jack-up rig Sagar Samrat into a MOPU has been awarded to a Consortium of Mercator Oil & Gas Ltd, Mercator Offshore (P) Ltd and Gulf Piping Company (GPC) on 17 November 2011.