Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) said that the offshore drilling Rig of the company - 'Sagar Samrat' - has been commissioned as a mobile offshore production unit (MOPU) on 23 December 2022.
Sagar Samrat MOPU will be able to export gas at a maximum rate of 2.36 million cubic metres per day and handle up to 20,000 barrels of crude oil per day. It is anticipated that Sagar Samrat MOPU would increase ONGC's oil production by 6,000 barrels per day in the coming days. The first oil from the WO-16 cluster began to flow into MOPU's processing system, and dispatch to the onshore terminal was started.
WO-16 is a cluster of four marginal fields in the Arabian Sea at a water depth of 75-80 m and 130 km from Mumbai.It was intended to establish a MOPU for the production, processing, and transportation of oil and gas from the WO-16 Cluster because there is no local facility to produce from this field.
ONGC further stated that the project to convert Jack-up rig Sagar Samrat into a MOPU was awarded to a consortium of Mercator Oil & Gas Ltd, Mercator Offshore (P) Ltd and Gulf Piping Company (GPC) on 17 November 2011.