The well no. 5 at Baghjan in Tinsukia district has been spewing gas uncontrollably for the last 22 days and it caught fire on June 9, killing two of OIL's firefighters at the site
Ghawar, the world's largest conventional oil field is able to pump a maximum of 3.8 mn barrels a day - well below the more than 5 mn mark
All hopes now on three new discoveries having 3 trillion cubic feet of discovered gas
In DSF-II, 59 discoveries have been clubbed into 25 contract areas spread over 3,042 square km and eight sedimentary basins
Dharmendra Pradhan said the government will be signing contracts for the first round of Open Acreage Licensing Policy (OALP) in a week's time
These 12 fields hold estimated reserve of 21 million metric tonnes of oil and oil equivalent gas