Mr. Dharmendra Pradhan, Hon’ble Minister of Petroleum & Natural Gas and Skill Development & Entrepreneurship today flagged off ONGC’s prolific east coast project of KG-DWN-98/2 by spudding its first well #KDG-A. The Minister spudded the well from the drillship Platinum Explorer 35KM off the Andhra Pradesh coast. The Minister was accompanied by Joint Secretary Mr. Amar Nath, Director MoPNG Mr Satyajit Mohanti, ONGC CMD Mr. Shashi Shanker and ONGC Director Offshore Mr. Rajesh Kakkar.
The well #KDG-A is one of the 34 wells planned under this mega project. The deep water well has a target depth of 2346 meters, under a water depth of 518 meters. The well is expected to produce around 5000 barrels of oil per day (bopd) when put to production.
ONGC’s ambitious project will be a major contributor towards the Prime Minister’s target to reduce nation’s hydrocarbon import dependence by 10 per cent by 2022. The project would cumulatively produce around 25 MMT of oil and 45 BCM of gas with peak production of 78,000 barrels per day of oil and 15 MMSCMD of gas. ONGC expects to bring first gas from this project to market by 2019 end and oil by 2020.
Wishing ONGC successful completion of the project KG DWN 98/2 in east coast, Mr. Dharmendra Pradhan emphasized that best-in-class project management will ensure achievement of the targets within time. He also emphasized the Union Governments strong commitment towards Andhra Pradesh, which is emerging as a major oil and gas hub of India. “It’s our endeavour to make these major investments in oil and gas sector bring prosperity to the people of Andhra Pradesh”, he said. Mr. Pradhan also said that oil sector projects like ONGC’s 98/2, would generate large employment opportunities and leverage local services & materials wherever possible as per the ‘Make in India’ policy.
The project KG DWN 98/2 involves some of the most advanced oil field technologies in drilling and completion of 34 subsea wells, laying about 425KM of pipeline and 150KM of control umbilical in water depths varying from 300 to 1400 meters. There will be an Offshore Process Platform for processing & evacuating 6.5 MMSCMD of Gas. Balance 5.75 MMSCMD gas will be transported through ONGC’s existing sub-sea infrastructure and facilities onshore terminal of Odalarevu in Andhra coast. Floating Production, Storage and Offloading Vessel will also be deployed in water depth of 413 meters to process the oil and gas.
The project envisages a CAPEX of 5.07 Billion US Dollars and OPEX of 5.12 Billion US dollars over field life of 16 years.
