India’s biggest oil producer Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC) on Friday restored 70 percent of gas supplies from Mumbai High fields, which had earlier dropped to 20 percent after a key oil facility was gutted in fire on Wednesday, Press Trust of India (PTI) reports.
“We have restored 7.5 million standard cubic meter (mmscmd) per day of gas supplies from today while oil output is at 150,000 barrels per day, PTI quoted a senior ONGC official as saying on Friday.
The fire, which took place on July 27, wiped away 15 percent of India’s 665,000 barrels per day oil output.
The Mumbai High field produced 10.2 mmscmd of gas and 260,000 barrels of oil per day before the devastating fire at the Mumbai High North (MHN) platform, the biggest oil gathering facility in the northern part of the field.
“The entire 110,000 barrels per day of oil production from MHN is down. But we have made arrangements to supply gas by bypassing the destroyed facility,” the official said.
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