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Three major fields under Assam Asset, Geleki, Jorhat and Lakhamani have surpassed their respective targets. This turnaround has come close on the heels of the gas sales target, achieved by the Asset 22 days before the end of the fiscal year 2010.
It was more than two decades ago that Assam Asset achieved the pre-decided annual targets. What makes it further praiseworthy is that the targets were accomplished despite several constraints in the region including monsoon. The oil production targets for Geleki, Lakhmani and Jorhat fields had been kept at 378574 MT, 148855 MT and 125269 MT respectively. Out of the above, Jorhat has the distinction of reaching the targets before the end of the fiscal for the third time in a row.
Assam has the oldest oil fields of India.
Under Geleki sector, there are following blocks: Geleki, Namti, Makeypore and North Geleky.
Under Lakhmani, the fields are Lakhmani, Laiplingaon, Demualgaon and , Kuargaon and under Jorhat, the Asset has Borholla, Mekrang, Kalyanpur, East Lakhibari, Khoraghat, Nambar, Uriumghat and Babeja.
Oil installations in Jorhat are in hostile terrains in far flung areas. Nearly 50 per cent of Jorhat’s oil production is channelized into the processing stream through tankers carrying the crude from these installations to Borholla GGS. Mobilising tankers to evacuate the stock at each installation against events like local bandh etc. is a formidable task.
Exemplary co-ordination among specialized teams like the Drilling, Well Services, Engineering Services, Subsurface, Logistics and Surface resulted in hooking up the two wells NRDI and NRDF to the Group Gathering Station (GGS) in record time, thereby getting these prolific producers on stream. Another massive effort which augmented the production levels was through the well KHDC (KH#29), which was a high pressure well not flowing due to flowline choking on account of hydrate formation.
Presently, Assam Asset has 20 owned Drilling rigs, 5 hired Rigs, 17 Work-over rigs, 50 major production installations besides the largest workshop in the eastern India known as Central Workshop, Sivasagar. Historically speaking, it was in 1957 that ONGC started its quest for oil in Assam and the first wild cat well was drilled at Disangmukh in 1959.
