ONGC opens new platform at Mumbai High North

Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC) on Sunday inaugurated a Rs 6,060-crore facility on the country’s biggest oil field to replace a massive platform that was gutted in a devastating fire seven years ago, killing 22 people and costing its then chairman Subir Raha his job.

The commissioning of Mumbai High North Process Platform will help the company raise output from offshore Mumbai High fields by 9,000 barrels a day to 206,000 bpd, Chairman and Managing Director Sudhir Vasudeva said after inaugurating the facility here. “The new process complex will result in production of 55 mt of oil and 6.5 billion cubic meters of gas by the year 2030,” he said.

 

“This facility will also augment ONGC’s objective of enhancing the hydrocarbon recovery factor from the current 24 per cent to 40 per cent.” In one of the worst accidents in ONGC’s history, a massive platform called the Bombay High North (BHN), was gutted in a devastating fire on July 27, 2005.