India

By OGJ editors
HOUSTON, Apr. 27 – Oil India Ltd. and GeoGlobal Resources Inc., Calgary, have spud Rachan-1, first well on the RJ-ONN-2004/3 (Block 21) exploration block in Rajasthan, India.

Rachan-1 is to be drilled vertically to 1,500 m to test the Jodhpur sandstone and the Upper Carbonate Group. GeoGlobal’s interest is 25%.

Production sharing contracts for blocks 20 and 21 were signed on March 2, 2007. The adjacent blocks are located onshore in Northwest India in the Rajasthan basin and surround OIL’s producing Baghewala oil field. The blocks cover a combined 871,293 acres.

The companies shot, processed, and interpreted 1,300 sq km of 3D seismic. Rachan-1 is the first of 20 exploratory wells to be drilled on the blocks.