Oil India Limited Conducts First Ever Airborne Gravity Gradiometry and Gravity –Magnetic Survey

Oil India Limited (OIL) conducted the first-ever Airborne Gravity Gradiometry and Gravity-Magnetic (AGG & GM) Survey on Thursday. Joint Secretary, Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas (MoPNG) Amar Nath flagged-off the AGG & GM survey.

Director (E&D), P Chandrasekaran, and Director (Operations) Pankaj Kuamr Goswami had visited the Aircraft and had discussions with OIL and Bellgeo teams at Dibrugarh. Induction of AGG & GM Survey is a consequence of the inaugural session, Technothon-1 held in December 2017.

“A total of 21000 LKM over an area of 9000 km2 is planned to be covered by the AGG & GM Survey. The data will be acquired in seven OALP Round-I blocks, three PELs, and two PMLs in the logistically inaccessible terrains of North-East, viz. Dibru-Saikhowa National Park (DSNP), Brahmaputra River Bed (BRB), and geologically complex Thrust-Belt Areas in Assam & Arunachal Pradesh. The study is expected to provide understanding of the Sedimentary Structure & Basement Configuration, add value in understanding the ‘Regional Hydrocarbon Prospectivity’, better assess hydrocarbon prospectively in inaccessible areas and reduce ambiguity in geologically complex thrust belt areas”, OIL mentioned in a statement,

“AGG survey measures the spatial fee of change of gravitational acceleration. The sensors within the survey-aircraft measures 5 unbiased parts of gravity discipline and give excessive decision picture of varied constituents of density distinction,” additionally it stated.

“OIL conducts Airborne Gravity Gradiometry & Gravity-Magnetic (AGG & GM) #Survey, #first ever by #OIL. A total of 21000 LKM over an area of 9000 km2 is planned to be covered by the AGG & GM Survey in #Assam @BellGeospace” OIL tweeted.