Structural mapping for oil search
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, May 08 2011:
Oil and Natural Gas Commission (ONGC) is conducting structural mapping for exploration of petroleum in Churachandpur and Tamenglong districts but surface mapping has been already completed.
Following discovery of two exploration blocks in the two districts which form parts of Assam-Arakan basin by the Directorate General of Hydrocarbons, Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, the ONGC took up the mapping work.
Meanwhile, the State Government has given permission to use an area of 4000 square kilometres which includes the Tipaimukh Project area, for the exploration work.
The ONGC was given petroleum exploration licence in November last year.
Under the Eighth Round of New Exploration Licensing Policy (NELP-VIII), the Government signed one production sharing contract at New Delhi on July 19 last year for exploration block AA-ONN-2009/2 .
But the other block AA-ONN-2009/1 was being kept in abeyance pending more scrutiny.
As per the contract signed for the first block, production sharing would be 47 per cent for Jubilant Oil and Gas Private Limited, 17 per cent for Jubilant Offshore Drilling Private Limited and 36 per cent for Jubilant Energy (Kharsang) Private Limited.
The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs gave its approval for natural oil and gas exploration in one block in Manipur last year.
Acording to the sedimentary basin map given by the Directorate General of Hydrocarbons, petroleum found in the two districts of Manipur can be exploited commercially.