Cairn Oil & Gas uncovers resources in Ambe-2A off India’s west coast

Vedanta subsidiary Cairn Oil & Gas has announced a hydrocarbon find successful the Ambe-2A appraisal good disconnected India’s westbound seashore successful the Gulf of Cambay successful the Arabian Sea.

The find is located successful reservoirs beneath the main state tract wrong the Miocene-Tarkeshwar formation. It has been officially reported to the Indian Directorate General of Hydrocarbons and the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas.

The Ambe block, officially designated arsenic CB-OSDSF-AMBE/2021, covers an country of 728.19km². Located astir 35km disconnected the seashore of Gujarat, the concession was awarded to Cairn Oil & Gas during the DSF-III bidding circular successful September 2022.

Cairn Oil & Gas holds a 100% participating involvement successful the block. The institution expects the find to heighten home state accumulation capabilities, contributing notably to India's vigor information objectives.

It plans to drill 2 further wells astatine the tract arsenic portion of its ongoing exploration campaign. The institution is presently evaluating the imaginable for processing the tract further.

Cairn Oil & Gas stated: “The tract has the imaginable to heighten home state accumulation and beforehand the company’s publication to India’s vigor aatmanirbharta.

“The institution plans to make its offshore blocks successful the East and West coast, arsenic portion of its exploration and improvement campaign, successful alignment with Hon’ble Prime Minister’s Samudra Manthan Mission to accelerate accumulation from India’s offshore reserves.”

In March 2025, Cairn Oil & Gas began a large offshore improvement task connected the aforesaid block. This initiative, successful collaboration with 2H Offshore Engineering and 2H Offshore (Asia-Pacific), is focused connected deploying offshore platforms to facilitate an estimated eventual betterment of astir 20 cardinal barrels of lipid equivalent.

Cairn Oil & Gas besides precocious installed what is described arsenic the archetypal sub-sea template successful India arsenic portion of its conductor supported level project. This infrastructure is important for supporting clump drilling operations and plays a captious relation successful monetising marginal fields wrong discovered tiny tract blocks.

Cairn Oil & Gas operates crossed 44 blocks successful India, which span astir 47,000km² and incorporate important reserves.

The institution has producing assets successful regions specified arsenic Rajasthan, Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat and Assam, employing technological innovations implicit its three-decade-long operations. Cairn Oil & Gas has a people to lend 50% of India’s home accumulation by executing multifaceted exploration projects crossed accepted and unconventional resources.

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