India’s flagship and largest oilfield Mumbai High was discovered on this day 50 years back and while most fields of that vintage have gone out of production, the field in the Arabian Sea is still going strong. State-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) held a function in Mumbai to mark the golden jubilee of the field which “brought newly-independent India on the world oil map.”
“Over the past 50 years, thanks to the generation of energy soldiers of ONGC, Mumbai High has produced 527 million barrels of oil and 221 billion cubic meters of gas, around 70 per cent of India’s domestic production so far,” the firm said.
