“In the just concluded New Exploration Licensing Policy (NELP) round-VIII for which the bids closed on October 12, ONGC has again turned out to be the largest winner as per the provisional results declared,” the company said in a statement.
ONGC, in partnership with certain consortia members, had submitted bids for 25 oil and gas exploration blocks and won 17 of them. It had bid for seven deepsea blocks - five as sole operator, one as joint operator with Oil India Ltd and one with the BG Group of UK as the operator. It won all the seven blocks.
Published 14 October 2009, 16:35 IST