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Tapti Fields to Be Decommissioned in Two Years

The Shell Oil Company expects the Tapti fields under the Panna, Mukta and Tapti (PMT) joint venture (JV) to be decommissioned in two years. Tapti is now dry and facing decommissioning.

 

The company will soon begin the offshore decommissioning of Tapti fields. It is already been doing the first couple of plugging wells and other works. The company has already transferred some of the assets over to ONGC but will now begin the real decommissioning works.

 

The PMT joint venture, comprising the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC), Reliance Industries and BG Exploration and Production India -- which is part of Shell Oil Company now -- is located off the shore to the south of the Gulf of Khambhat on the Arabian Sea coast of India.

 

It is under a production-sharing contract (PSC) with the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, government of India. The Tapti fields went into a phase of decline after 2008 and cessation of production was finally declared in March 2016. In 2017, the company started preparing to decommission the Tapti fields.

 

A total of 38 wells, five platforms and four pipelines have to be closed in order to decommission the facility.

 

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