Cairn Oil & Gas commences gas flow from Hazarigaon field in North-East

Cairn Oil & Gas, a unit of Vedanta Limited, has commenced test production from its Hazarigaon field in Assam, which it had won in a discovered small field bid round. The gas produced by Cairn Oil & Gas is evacuated through a main trunk pipeline and a gas cascading system to Assam Gas Company Limited. Additionally, the gas cascading system will enable gas from Haza¬rigaon to be a prime contributor to fuelling 100 CNG buses that will be plying in Guwahati as part of the clean energy initiative of the Assam government. The company plans to drill 5 to 10 exploration wells in the next two years across the Golaghat, Jorhat and Tinsukia districts of Assam.