ONGC’s offshore ‘chingaris’ soldier on for record 45 days
Priyanka Patil, Neha Suryavanshi and Kuljeet Kaur Randhawa were buzzing with excitement when their choppers took off from ONGCNSE -3.69 %’s Juhu helibase in the third week of March for the BPA offshore platform in Bassein and Satellite project, India’s largest gas field 80 kms off the Mumbai coast.
It was the first deployment on an offshore platform for the young engineers and they were looking forward to spending 14 days, the standard duration of deployment, on Asia’s largest offshore platform. But little did they realise then that the mesh of steel jutting from the Arabian Sea was going to be their home for the next 45 days and counting.
