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Oil and gas production continues to elude discovered small fields

Officials from many new entrants to India's upstream oil and gas exploration sector point fingers towards delays in clearances and faulty data

Under the production-sharing contract, the three Rajasthan fields had different field development plans. Cairn, however, chose to turn the most productive of them —Mangala — into a hub for all three with a common processing unit and pipeline infrastr
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India imports 1656.58 million barrels (roughly 226 million tonnes) of crude oil every year

Twesh Mishra New Delhi
Five years after the first discovered small field (DSF) auctions for hydrocarbons, project developers continue to face multiple issues. Till now, none of these discoveries have begun production and officials from many new entrants to India’s upstream oil and gas exploration sector point fingers towards delays in clearances and faulty data.

“The efforts of the Directorate General of Hydrocarbons are in creative construct, yet achieving the mission of expediting domestic production is being hampered owing to delays in policy decisions. There is a need to become adept to the new realities of the oil and gas sector to avoid contract area