By IANS,
Gandhinagar : The state-owned Gujarat State Petroleum Corporation (GSPC) has acquired environmental clearance for 16 of its additional wells to be drilled in its Deendayal gas field in the Krishna-Godavari (KG) basin on the eastern coast of India, a state official said here Monday.
The industry department official said the 16 additional wells in the Block KG-OSN-2001/3 received clearance from the environment and forests ministry for exploration after the firm submitted a pre-feasibility report a month back.
The GSPC already has 15 wells drilled in the KG basin in the water depths of 20 to 170 metres in an area 10 to 30 km from the Kakinada port in Andhra Pradesh. The company is preparing to drill the additional wells upto a depth of 3,000 metres and the waste water generated would be treated and recycled for captive use, the official said.
The GSPC won the KG exploration block in 2003 through a competitive bidding process of the central government under the New Exploration Licensing Policy and has so far drilled 15 wells in KG block, out of which 11 wells are discovery wells, three wells have shown no gas flow and one well is yet to be tested.
The KG blocks already drilled by GSPC are spread over 1,850 sq kms of area.