To ensure crude oil production doubles in the Barmer basin, Vedanta’s Cairn Oil and Gas has made an investment of Rs 37,000 crore in Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) programme. On Sunday, Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas, Dharmendra Pradhan inaugurated the programme for Mangala-Bhagyam-Aishwarya (MBA) areas to increase crude oil production from Barmer oil fields. This programme will help in achieving 5 lakh barrels of oil per day (BOPD) production target from Rajasthan as the project will double the crude oil production. Currently, 2 lakh barrels daily of oil is being produced there. It may be mentioned here that Cairn has planned to upgrade the Mangala Processing Terminal to handle 13 lakh barrels of liquid.

Source: dna January 15, 2018 00:22 UTC