ONGC's West offshore oil output down 6.3% after leak

Oil and Natural Gas Corp.'s (ONGC) daily oil output from the country's biggest oil fields, off the west coast, has declined 6.3%, it said on Saturday, a day after it detected leak in an undersea pipeline.

Operations at Western offshore were nearly normal, the state-run explorer said in a statement, adding the fields were presently producing at the rate of 300,000 barrels per day (bpd) as against normal level of 320,000 bpd. ONGC resumed oil and gas output from its Mumbai High fields on Friday, hours after the production was halted due to a leak in Mumbai Uran Trunk crude pipeline. "The line is expected to be repaired and normal flow restored in four to five days," it said.