Govt starts ₹5,000 cr seismic survey of 26 oil fields
The government has started a ₹5,000 crore seismic survey across 26 sedimentary basins with presumed presence of petroleum to address investors' concerns about the lack of data on India’s hydrocarbon fields. It is aimed at acquisition, processing and interpretation of 48,243 line km of 2D seismic data in non-appraised on-land areas of the basins, Oil Minister Dharmendra Pradhan added.