Mumbai High Field

Mumbai High
Oil Rig at Mumbai High
Mumbai High Field is located in India
Mumbai High Field
Location of Mumbai High
CountryIndia
RegionGulf of Khambhat
Locationoff the coast of Mumbai
Offshore/onshoreOffshore
Coordinates19°25′00″N 71°20′00″E / 19.41667°N 71.33333°E / 19.41667; 71.33333
OperatorONGC
Field history
Discovery1965
Start of production1974
Production
Current production of oil134,000 barrels per day (~6.68×10^6 t/a)
Year of current production of oil2024
Current production of gas10×10^6 m3/d (350×10^6 cu ft/d)
Year of current production of gas2024

The Mumbai High Field, formerly called the Bombay High Field,[1] is an offshore oilfield 176 km (109 mi) off the west coast of Mumbai, in Gulf of Cambay region of India, in about 75 m (246 ft) of water.[2] The oil operations are run by India's Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC).

Mumbai High field was discovered by an Indo-Soviet oil exploration team operating from the seismic exploration vessel Academic Arkhangelsky[2] during mapping of the Gulf of Khambhat (earlier Cambay) in 1964–67, followed by a detailed survey in 1972.[2] The naming of the field is attributed to a team from a survey run in 1965 analysed in the Rashmi building in Peddar Road, Cumballa Hill, Mumbai. The first offshore well was sunk in 1974.[2]

Every oil resource rock requires Structural traps which are mainly salt dome, coral reefs, fault trap and fold trap. In case of Mumbai High, the structure is a "north-northwest to south-southeast trending doubly plunging Anticline with a faulted east limb", 65 km long and 23 km wide",[2] and is the most probable reason to call it "Mumbai High".

  1. ^ "Indian Oil and Gas Industry", Directorate General of Hydrocarbons
  2. ^ a b c d e Cite error: The named reference Rao Talukdar 1980 p487 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).