Hydrocarbon Wells

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  Frozen Time Bomb? Permafrost Thawing Below The Arctic Raises Alarm

  The researchers stressed that the occurrence of gas accumulations was more widespread than anticipated.

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  India May Use Old Hydrocarbon Wells To Store Natural Gas: GAIL Official

  India is looking at building its first strategic natural gas reserves by using old, depleted hydrocarbon wells to store the fuel and hedge against global supply disruption, a senior executive of GAIL said.

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  L&T Hydrocarbon Engineering Secures Rs 1,483 Crore Contract From ONGC

  The project, part of ONGC's strategy to jointly develop three small and marginal fields/blocks under 'Bassein Development 3 Well Platform and Pipeline Project', is scheduled to be completed by May 2019.

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  Cairn India Gets Nod For Drilling 64 Exploratory, Appraisal Wells In KG-Basin

  The block was awarded to Cairn India on 30 June 2010 as part of the NELP-VIII round for exploration of hydrocarbons and production.

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  Reliance Industries Gets Green Nod For Rs 800-Crore Tamil Nadu Project: Report

  Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) has received green nod for drilling 8 additional exploratory wells to ascertain the reservoir capacity and commercial viability of hydrocarbons off the coast of Tamil Nadu at a project cost of Rs 800 crore.

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  Government Keen On Joint Development Of Oil, Gas Blocks In Qatar

  The Indian government on Sunday evinced interest in joint exploration of new oil and gas fields as well development of discovered assets in energy rich Qatar.

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  Reliance Industries Gets Green Nod For Tamil Nadu Drilling Project: Report

  The Centre's green panel has given its nod to Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) for carrying out additional exploratory well-drilling to ascertain reservoir capacity and commercial viability of hydrocarbons at block CY-III-D5 in the Bay of Bengal off the coast of Tamil Nadu.

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  ONGC Strikes 'Significant' Oil, Gas in KG Basin

  Well M-4, drilled 25 km off the nearest coastline, "encountered six hydrocarbon bearing zones with net pay of 78 meters have been established," the company said in a statement.

• Cairn India Q2 net rises 46% to Rs 3,385.08 crore

  Since winning approval to drill exploratory or probe wells in an already producing field in June this year, the company has drilled 6 wells on the Rajasthan fields, four of which have yielded hydrocarbon discoveries.

• Reliance shuts 9th well at KG-D6 as output falls to all-time low

  RIL had on April 2 shut the well A1 on the main producing fields of Dhirubhai 1 and 3 (D1 and D3) in the Krishna-Godavari basin block KG-DWN-98/3, KG-D6, for "reservoir build-up study", according to a status report of the Directorate General of Hydrocarbons (DGH).

• Cairn drills exploration well in Rajasthan block, a first in four years

  Cairn India today said it has begun drilling its first exploration well in four years on the prolific Rajasthan block that will help boost output to 2,15,000 barrels per day (bpd) by March 2014.

• DGH approves RIL's plan of development well at KG-D6

  In what may bring some relief to Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL), the government has approved drilling the development well at the companys KG-D6 gas fields off the east coast. Sources told NDTV that the Petroleum Ministrys technical wing, the Directorate General of Hydrocarbon (DGH), has granted the approval of drilling the development well named KG...

• DGH for disallowing Reliance's $1.2 bn investment in KG-D6

  Reliance has drilled only 20 wells till now, of which it has not put two of the wells on production yet.