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Cyclone Laila shuts down India's Bay of Bengal ops
(5/21/2010 - OGI: Mumbai) Tropical Cyclone Laila transited the Indian oil and gas producing part of the Bay of Bengal and hit the Andhra Pradesh coast with 120 km/hr winds yesterday.
The primary operators in the prolific Krishna Godavari Basin crossed by the storm, Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) and Reliance Industries evacuated their most vulnerable facilities in advance of Laila's arrival, suspending production and drilling operations, according to local sources.
ONGC evacuated seven of its drilling rigs that were working in the area and had to relocate the drillship Sangar Vijay to safer waters when the vessel's anchor cable was broken by the force of the waves, according to the company's technical director, U.N. Bose. "We are monitoring the situation," he said, "and we hope to gradually resume operatons today when the seas are calmer."
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The Sangar Vijay. |
Reliance also carried out evacuations and halted both production and drilling, but it kept drilling rigs on location in the KG-D6 Block, where it is developing the MA fields, India's largest gas reserves. A spokesman for the company said today, "Our east coast facilities remain shut. We are monitoring the situation."
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