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ONGC crosses daily production target; revises annual goal
State-run oil behemoth ONGC has crossed its daily production target of 16,200 tons per day and has accordingly revised its annual goal upward to 5.9 million tons for this fiscal. “Production trend has reversed in recent months. We will produce more in this year compared to last year. All over India, production of onshore has increased,” ONGC Director (Onshore) Ved Prakash Mahawar told PTI. The daily production of the company has already touched 16,300 tons compared to 15,300 tons in August 2015, he added.
“We had set the target on higher side compared to last year and it was 16,200 tons per day. We have already achieved it. The last six month’s average is 16,290 tons a day,” Mahawar said. He said the company gave a mission target for production to all its assets across the country for the current financial year and all will achieve it by the end of the fiscal. “Our whole year’s target is 5.87 million tons. We will do more than our target. We are trying to reach 5.9 million tons in this fiscal and we are hopeful about it,” Mahawar said.
When asked about Assam, the Director said the production this year will increase compared to last year in the state too. “In last fiscal, our production in Assam was 0.9 million tons. This year, we will reach the figure of one million tons,” he added. The average production of Assam asset was 2,250 tons a day a year earlier. “It has already crossed 2,350 tons per day. We gave the target of 2,400 tons a day to Assam asset. By January, this figure will also be achieved,” Mahawar said. Talking about the Jorhat basin, he said the production was 350 tons a day. “We have made it an asset to bring in more focus on production. As soon as it was made an asset, production has gone up to 400 tones every day. This will increase to 500 tons next year,” Mahawar said. Christian Kirk Jersey
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