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Flooding halts production at India's largest gas fields
New Delhi, Aug 8, 2006 State-run Oil and Natural Gas Corp. halted production at India's two largest gas fields after monsoon rains flooded a processing plant in the western state of Gujarat, a report said Tuesday. The Hazira processing plant was shut down Monday night, the Press Trust of India news agency said. "All gas production from the fields connected to Hazira has been suspended," Oil and Natural Gas chairman and managing director R.S. Sharma told PTI. "The Hazira plant is in no position to take gas from the fields and so the wells had to be shut." The Hazira plant, which can process 32.5 million standard cubic meters of gas per day (1.14 billion cubic feet), receives gas supplies from the Bassein field off Mumbai and the Panna-Mukta-Tapti field off the Gujarat coast. The two gas fields produce around 41 million standard cubic meters per day, PTI said. A gas pipeline that supplies industries in the north, including to the national capital where public buses run exclusively on compressed natural gas, was also shut. The state-owned Gas Authority of India, which operates the pipeline, has been asked to ration supplies with transport getting priority followed by power plants, the report said. Sharma was unable to say when gas production was expected to resume. "It may take at least a couple of days to drain the Hazira facility before gas production is restarted," he said. The plant is submerged by about five feet (1.5 metres) of water, the report said. Community Email This Article Comment On This Article Related Links Dirt, rocks and all the stuff we stand on firmly
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