NGC to intencify exploration of natural gas in Tripura

AGARTALA: The northeastern state of Tripura has perhaps the world's highest success rate when it came to yielding natural gas, a top official of state-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) said on Wednesday.

"We are striking gas in one out of every two wells drilled in Tripura, while the average ratio worldwide is one out of every three wells," said ONGC group general manager Ved Prakash Mahawar.

Since 1972, ONGC has drilled 176 wells in Tripura, bordering Bangladesh. Of these, 82 are yielding gas in 11 fields. "Currently ONGC is producing 3.95 million cubic meters gas per day and it would be doubled (6.35 million cubic metres) within the next three years," Mahawar told reporters.