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22 INDIA'S HYDROCARBON OUTLOOK 2024-2025

2.1 India's East Coast Basins of conventional plays, shales and gas hydrate
will be conducted in these five basins as a part of
Out of 26 sedimentary basins, there are five Phase I scheduled tasks.
basins located off India's east coast. Geologically,
four basins namely (i) KG, (ii) Cauvery, (iii) The KG basin tops the list in terms of both
Mahanadi and (iv) Bengal-Purnea belong to discovered and undiscovered hydrocarbon in-
east coast passive continental margin under rift place. This is distantly followed by Cauvery and
tectonics. The fifth basin, Andaman has tectonics Mahanadi basins. Bengal-Purnea and Andaman
associated to Island Arc system. Under the are two emerging basins with increased
upcoming HRAS 2025, the resource assessment exploration activities.

Source: DGH Internal