RIL reports fifth oil discovery in Cambay basin
28 May 2010
Mumbai: Reliance Industries Limited today said that it had made its fifth oil discovery in exploration block CB-ONN-2003/1 (CB 10 A&B), awarded under the NELP-V round of bidding.
The block CB-ONN-2003/1 is located in the Cambay basin about 130km from Ahmedabad in Gujarat.
RIL said that it drilled the CB10A-J1 well to a total depth of 1,957 metres in Part A of the block, to explore the play fairway in the Miocene Basal Sand (MBS) of Babaguru formation and Eocence Pays of Kalol formation.
It said in a statement, "Hydrocarbon bearing zone was identified at a depth of 1,376-1,385.5 metres in the Miocene Basal Sand (MBS) of Babaguru formation."
Conventional production testing was carried out in the interval of 1,376-13,81.5 metres.
"The well flowed at a rate of 255 barrels of oil per day (bopd), through a 6-mm bean with a flowing tube head pressure of 180 psi," RIL said.