The Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) is planning to drill 46 exploratory wells in 12 onshore mining lease blocks in Mehsana district in Gujarat at a cost of Rs 5 billion. The corporation has drilled more than 500 wells in Mehsana district so far, including exploratory wells. ONGC’s crude oil production from onshore fields in Gujarat in the first four months
(April-July) of the current financial year increased 2.19 per cent to 1,537 thousand tonnes, as compared to the corresponding period of 2018-19. Earlier, in April, ONGC had also applied for an environment clearance for drilling 145 development wells across 30 mining leases in the Cambay basin at a cost of Rs 23.93 billion.