{"id":648288,"date":"2025-09-29T09:09:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T03:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=648288"},"modified":"2025-09-29T11:55:25","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T06:25:25","slug":"oil-india-ltd-strikes-gas-in-andaman-sea-sparks-hopes-for-domestic-hydrocarbons-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-india-ltd-strikes-gas-in-andaman-sea-sparks-hopes-for-domestic-hydrocarbons-production\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil India Ltd strikes gas in Andaman Sea, sparks hopes for domestic hydrocarbons production"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oil India Ltd (OIL) has discovered natural gas reserves off the Andaman Islands, the state-owned firm said, raising hope of reversing the declining trend of domestic production of hydrocarbons going forward. <\/p>\n<p>Even though the PSU did not comment on the estimate of commercially recoverable reserve, the company in a statement said \u201coccurrence of natural gas\u201d was reported in the second exploratory well Vijayapuram-2 drilled in the Offshore Andaman Block AN-OSHP-2018\/1, which the company had won under the Open Acreage Licensing Policy (OALP).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil India Ltd (OIL) has discovered natural gas reserves off the Andaman Islands, the state-owned firm said, raising hope of reversing the declining trend of domestic production of hydrocarbons going forward. Even though the PSU did not comment on the estimate of commercially recoverable reserve, the company in a statement said \u201coccurrence of natural gas\u201d was reported in the second exploratory well Vijayapuram-2 drilled in the Offshore Andaman Block AN-OSHP-2018\/1, which the company had won under the Open Acreage Licensing Policy (OALP).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,215,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-648288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-telegraph","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=648288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}