{"id":353283,"date":"2026-01-05T18:25:30","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T12:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=353283"},"modified":"2026-01-05T18:25:30","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T12:55:30","slug":"gandhar-oilfield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/gandhar-oilfield\/","title":{"rendered":"Gandhar Oilfield"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>News<\/strong>: Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) plans to store captured carbon dioxide in depleted wells at Gujarat&#8217;s Gandhar oilfield, marking the company&#8217;s first full-scale Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) pilot.<\/p>\n<h2>About Gandhar Oilfield<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_353284\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-353284\" style=\"width: 321px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-353284\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Source-Science-Direct.jpg?resize=321%2C241&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Gandhar Oilfield\" width=\"321\" height=\"241\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Source-Science-Direct.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Source-Science-Direct.jpg?w=664&amp;ssl=1 664w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 321px) 100vw, 321px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-353284\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source &#8211; Science Direct<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Location:<\/strong> The <strong>Gandhar oilfield<\/strong> is a major oil and gas field located in the <strong>Jambusar-Broach block of the Cambay Basin<\/strong> in Gujarat, India.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Field boundaries <\/strong>: The field is situated on the western flank of the <strong>Broach depression<\/strong>, between<strong> the Dadhar river in the north and the Narmada river in the south.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Size: <\/strong>Gandhar is a major oil and gas field spreading over <strong>800 sq. km<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Operator<\/strong>: The <strong>Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC)<\/strong> is responsible for the field&#8217;s operations and development.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Discovery<\/strong>: The oil field was discovered in <strong>1983<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Status:<\/strong> It is one of <strong>India&#8217;s largest onshore &#8220;brownfields&#8221; (mature\/ageing fields).\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>About\u00a0 ONGC Carbon Capture Pilot\u00a0projects<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>ONGC is currently spearheading its first full-scale <strong>Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS)<\/strong> pilot project at the <strong>Gandhar oilfield in Gujarat<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>This innovative project involves:\n<ul>\n<li>The project involves <strong>capturing CO<\/strong>\u2082 from nearby industries in Dahej and ONGC\u2019s Hazira plant.<\/li>\n<li>The captured CO\u2082 will be <strong>transported to Gandhar and injected<\/strong> underground through two abandoned onshore wells at <strong>about 100 tonnes per day.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Aim:<\/strong> The project also aims to test using CO2 to <strong>enhance oil recovery ( EOR)<\/strong>, turning a potentially harmful greenhouse gas into a productive resource, they said.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) plans to store captured carbon dioxide in depleted wells at Gujarat&#8217;s Gandhar oilfield, marking the company&#8217;s first full-scale Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) pilot. About Gandhar Oilfield Location: The Gandhar oilfield is a major oil and gas field located in the Jambusar-Broach block of the Cambay Basin in&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/gandhar-oilfield\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Gandhar Oilfield<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10393,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,3127,11209,12039,11211],"tags":[11872],"class_list":["post-353283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-economy","category-geography-in-news","category-knolls","category-places-in-news","tag-9pm-daily-factly","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10393"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}