Cairn India starts work to ramp up ouput from oil field.

Cairn India recently said it has started to inject polymer into wells to raise output from its largest oil field in the prolific Rajasthan block, Mangala.

'Cairn recently initiated polymer injection at the Mangala field. Mangala enhanced oil recovery (EOR) project, which is amongst the largest polymer flood EOR programmes in the world, commenced well ahead of the guidance provided,' the company said in a statement here.

The polymer injection activity would gradually be ramped up.

The Mangala polymer flood enhanced oil recovery (EOR) programme has a capex of about $600 million. About 100 additional wells have been planned for the project.

The EOR has potential to raise output from the Mangala, Bhagyam and Aishwariya - the largest of the 36 discoveries in the Rajasthan block, by 10 to 15 per cent.



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