Oil & Natural Gas Corporation Ltd.

Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) has made another discovery in its Bay of Bengal block KG-D5, taking the number of finds in the area to 13. The State-run company has discovered oil and gas in the well F-1 in the northern part of the KG basin block KG-DWN-98/2 or KG-D5, which sits next to the flagging KG-D6 block of Reliance Industries.

The 7,294.60 sq km deepsea KG-D5 block has been broadly categorised into Northern Discovery Area (NDA - 3,800.6 sq km) and Southern Discovery Area (SDA - 3,494 sq km). The latest discovery has been made in NDA.

ONGC is planning to develop the discoveries in three clusters -- 14.5 million standard cubic meters per day of gas for 15 years from Cluster-1 comprising of D&E finds of NDA in KG-D5 block and G-4 find in the neighbouring area.

ONGC is an Indian multinational oil and gas company headquartered in Dehradun, India. It is India’s largest oil and gas exploration and production company.