Asia's third largest economy wants to monetise its oil and gas resources to cut its import bill. "ONGC also plans to leverage international collaborations with reputed global majors for this, for which talks are in an advanced stage," it said.
The country's top explorer said it would invest funds for acquiring seismic survey and drilling of 115-120 wells every year to "probe around 1700 million tonnes of oil and oil equivalent gas of yet to find reserves". ONGC is also offering a stake to global oil companies to help develop its challenging fields off the country's east coast.
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