A Message from Director Onshore, ONGC

A K Hazarika
Director, Onshore
Oil & Natural Gas Corporation

Dear Dr. Mozumder,

Thank you very much for your introductory letter dated. 2nd March 2006 regarding the upcoming "Purvashi Oil & Gas Ltd. (POGL) Institute for Petroleum and Energy Development" in Assam which is being jointly pursued by Guwahati University and POGL in partnership with TIFAC-CORE of DU, RRL Jorhat ( a unit of CSIR, Govt. of India) and several Multinational technology providers from Australia, UK, Canada and USA having Experience in Assam fields. This is definitely a right step to open up such an institute which will develop competency in providing consultancy with support from Multinational Technology providers in various facets of E&P business. I understand this institute will impart specialized training of E&P operations and solution to field problems, through expert services of international companies. In Assam in ONGC working areas alone, we have got a balance reserve of nearly 128 MMT and with a present level of production of 1.5 MMT per year, we have a huge potential to increase our present production level from onshore Assam Asset. Therefore, potential to accelerate production from Assam Asset ONGC is huge, only we need to bring the best technology to drill high-tech wells i.e. Horizontal/multilateral which will result in production improvement from each well. Drilling of drain hole section with non damaging drilling fluid is also giving very encouraging results. Also drilling pay horizon of conventional development & exploratory wells with non damaging drilling fluid results in quick activation of wells, reducing lot of testing time, thereby saving cost. I hope this new institute will bring the multinational companies from Australia, UK, Canada, USA for sharing their knowledge through various type of training and partnership collaboration. ONGC has already offered financial support to one of the institutes in the name of Clastic Petroleum Reservoir Engineering at Dibrugarh University. I hope all these institutes in north-east will go in a long way, helping NE Petroleum sector grow higher and higher. I wish the successful functioning of this Institute and hope that the objectives of the institutes will be met. With best wishes

A.K. Hazarika
Director, Onshore
ONGC