Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) achieved a technological breakthrough with the inauguration of the first Helium Extraction Pilot Plant in the country at its Gas Collecting Station at Kuthalam near Mayiladuturai, Nagapattinam district, reports Business Line.
Inaugurating the plant, which is set up at a cost of Rs 60 million, ONGC Chairman RS Sharma said that the project is a significant step towards the objective of assimilating new technology to make India self- reliant in helium.
The corporation now produced more than a million cubic metres of natural gas a day in Kuthalam and the plant was designed, manufactured and installed by the Adsorption Research Incorporated (ARI), United States.
Kuthalam in Tamil Nadu, was the first Cretaceous age gas field in India and the helium gas was present in 500 ppm (0.05% by volume) concentration in the natural gas produced here.
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