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Article: Golden harvest ; We takes a tour of India's largest onshore oilfield in Rajasthan's Barmer district as it goes into production.
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- Business Today
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- October 4, 2009
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Crude oil.... It permeates our life so comprehensively! Diesel,
petrol, LPG, plastics, paints, chemicals, pesticides,
pharmaceuticals, non-cotton clothings & all these and much else are
derived from it. So, when I recently got the opportunity to visit
India's newest and largest onshore source of crude, Cairn India Ltd.
oilfields in Rajasthan's Barmer district, I was curious and excited.
That the sands of Rajasthan underlay a potential goldmine of
petroleum reserves has been debated for a long time. The
inauguration of the Cairn oilfield by the Prime Minister on August
29 settled that debate. Never mind that it took two attempts to nail
the reserves. Anglo-Dutch giant Shell had explored the ...