Crude production at block RJ-ONJ-91/1 (Baghewala field) of Oil India Ltd in Rajasthan is expected to commence by the end of this month. Petroleos de Venezuela, South Africa, is providing technical assistance to OIL. Since the oil produced in this field is of high viscosity, OIL will employ cyclic steam injection system to produce oil from the field. The block has established almost 14.2 mmt of in-place heavy oil, of which 2.19 mmt is assessed to be recoverable. RJ-ONJ-91/1 is in Jaisalmer district and is spread over an area of 3,900 sq. km.
In the meantime, the OIL-led consortium has decided to start work on its first exploratory well in the Rajasthan block RJ-ON-2001/1 from June this year. OIL will drill five exploratory wells, three in phase-I and two in phase-II. OIL, which is the operator of the block, has 70 per cent stake and ONGC holds the balance 30 per cent stake in the block.
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Great News. We are an independent OIl & Exploration Company (DPL) chasing similar play types close to Indian border in Pakistan. I would appreciate if you could extend more information ie expected daily production rates, no wells producing etc.
shameed@dewanpetroleum.com
Ultra Heavy oil in Baghewala area of Jaisalmer district was
discovered in 1991. Subsequently 10 wells were drilled in the area and
reserves of 14.60 MT heavy oil & 33.2 MT Bitumen were proved in the
area. But due to lack of technology to produce this heavy oil resources,
commercial production could not be made. This block was again taken
up by OIL for R & D Project for which they have entered into an agreement with PDVSA of Venezuela to develop and exploit the heavy oil resource.
On completion of its integrated reservoir study under Phase-1, M/s PDVSAIntvep (Venezuela),
the collaborator, indicated 53 MMT (Indicated Category) Oil-in-place in Upper Carbonate reservoir and 78
MMT (25 MMT – proved category) Oil-in-place in lower Bilara + Jodhpur sandstone.
PDVSA INTEVEP successfully drilled a pilot well in the Baghewala field.
It is estimated that the reservoir in question holds some 300 million barrels of heavy crude. The information about the expected daily production rate is not available.
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