MUMBAI: The state-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) is preparing to drill four exploratory oil wells off Mumbai in the western offshore basin. The nearest boundary of this field is 11.3 km off the Mumbai shoreline and 16.6 km south off Juhu Beach.
The proposal was cleared in a meeting of the Maharashtra Coastal Zone Management Authority (MCZMA) on August 10 and the minutes were finalised last week. Ten exploratory oil wells are also to be drilled off the Gujarat coast, according to information.
The minutes of the MCZMA meeting said that ONGC proposed to drill ten exploratory wells in offshore block MB-OSHP-2018/1 in Gujarat and four exploratory wells in offshore block MB-OSHP-2018/2 in the western offshore basin, Mumbai.
