Oil Found In Ashoknagar West Bengal And Sets To Find Place In Oil Map Of World.

Two exploratory well has been dug in the Ashoknagar West Bengal,

After an oil claim by an oil and natural gas agency, Bengal sets to find a place on the oil map of the world. It was discovered in the year 2018 by an oil and natural gas agency, confirming about commercial visibility of oil and gas by Union steel, petroleum, and natural gas minister Dharmendra Pradhan.

This discovery was made in the region of Ashoknagar North 24 Parganas, just 47 km from Kolkata.

For the past two years, stakeholders had kept their excitement under check has a similar claim of oil and gas was found in the Bay of Bengal region near Sundarbans had later found to be commercially unavailable.

But this time rests all speculation by Petroleum Minister Dharmendra Pradhan and announces “going by experts”, the ONGC finds “can be commercially exploited" he also added samples of was analyzed by Indian Oil Haldia refinery.

Sources told two exploratory well has been dug in the area, experts say the one block carries a capacity of one lakh cubic meter per day gas and equal quantity of oil in liters. This discovery has marked one of its kind in the eastern part of India after Assam.