Directorate General of Hydrocarbons sets up 2nd NDR data centre in Odisha

The centre at Bhubaneswar will help students of geology, researchers, academicians as well as various companies

The Directorate General of Hydrocarbons (DGH), under the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, has built a secondary data centre for the National Data Repository (NDR). 

The new centre is located at the Software Technology Parks of India's (STPI's) new facility on the outskirts of Bhubaneswar.

"It is the replica of NDR, which is established at Noida. The new data centre is the back up of the data stored at the NDR to avoid any exigencies. It will not only help the students but also geologists for exploration and production of oil," said Shiladitya Bhattacharjee, general manager (human resources), DGH.

The data centre