The Awadh Times, New Delhi: On Tuesday, the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) announced that its Sagar Samrat has begun producing oil and gas in the Arabian Sea since the beginning of 2017.
On the 23rd of December in 2022, the ONGC ‘Sagar Samrat’ offshore drilling rig was put into operation as a mobile offshore production unit (Mopu). ONGC is in charge of managing the Sagar Samrat jackup, which, in addition to being owned by ONGC, began operations in 1973.
Any form of movable construction that may be utilized while extracting oil and gas from the seabed is considered to be a mobile offshore production unit.
A statement that was distributed to exchanges on Tuesday stated that Sagar Samrat Mopu would have the capability to process up to 20,000 barrels of crude oil per day, and it will also have the ability to export gas at a maximum rate of 2.36 million cubic meters per day. Within the next several days, it is anticipated that ONGC’s production of oil would increase by 6,000 barrels per day.
Production of oil and gas in the Arabian Sea begins with ONGC’s Sagar Samrat
The first oil from the WO-16 cluster has entered the processing system of Mopu, and the company has begun sending it to the onshore terminal, according to a statement released by the oil giant on Tuesday.
The WO-16 cluster consists of four marginal fields located in the Arabian Sea at a sea depth of 75-80 meters. It is located 130 kilometers away from Mumbai, which is around 40 kilometers away from the Mumbai High.
It was intended to establish a Mopu for the production, processing, and transportation of oil and gas from the WO-16 Cluster. This was done since there is no local facility that can produce from this field.
On November 17, 2011, Mercator Oil and Gas Ltd., Mercator Offshore, and Gulf Piping Company (GPC) got together to establish a consortium. As a result of this collaboration, they were awarded the project to transform the jack-up rig Sagar Samrat into a Mopu.
A number of obstacles, including as the legal difficulties and the Covid-19, were overcome before the Mopu was successfully placed near to the WO-16 wellhead platform on April 16, 2022. This was accomplished by transporting the Mopu to India on a large lift vessel and obtaining the necessary statutory approvals.
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The oil company ONGC has stated that the Sagar Samrat conversion project is one of the most difficult undertakings that they have ever accomplished. In order to communicate the story of various difficult decisions that were made throughout its execution and the exceptional stakeholder consultation that was carried out by ONGC, which ultimately resulted in outcomes, the firm stated that the Mopu stands tall in the Arabian Sea as a witness.
The Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) asserts that Sagar Samrat had a significant role in the discovery of the largest oil field in India, known as Mumbai High, in 1974. This discovery brought the business a great deal of success and altered the oil map of India.
More than 125 wells have been drilled by the rig throughout the course of its existence, and it has been engaged in 14 significant offshore oil and gas discoveries.
It had previously been used as a jack-up rig, but ONGC made the decision to transform it into a Mopu so that it could be used for producing from the WO-16 cluster. In the future, this will be moved to different sites in order to facilitate the profitable exploitation of further finds.
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