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An oil spill around a mile long has leaked from a pipeline some 80 kilometres off the Mumbai coast and could mean a loss of about 25,000 barrels, state-run Oil and Natural Gas Corp said on Friday.

Oil Secretary S Sundareshan said the leakage should be plugged soon.
"The initial assessment of the extent of the oil spill is about one mile long," ONGC said in a statement.

A loss of 25,000 barr

In oil spill was reported on Friday off the Mumbai coast following a rupture in a pipeline carrying crude oil from state-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corp's (ONGC) offshore oilfields.

The leakage in a pipeline carrying Mumbai High crude oil to Uran was reported around 8.45 am and production was immediately stopped, a senior company official said.

"Production from the Mumbai High and Bassein oil

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ONGC Tripura Power Co (OTPC), a unit of state-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corp, has signed an MoU with Dhaka to open up a new transport corridor through Bangladesh for transporting heavy equipment for its power plant at Tripura.

The MoU was signed by OPTC Director RK Madan and Azizur Rahman, Chief Engineer, Roads and Highways Dept, representing the Government of Bangladesh, a company press statem

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NEW DELHI: The State-run Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) has joined hands with the Wildlife Trust of India (WTI) to come to the rescue of the endangered sub-species of the eastern swamp deer.

The conservation programme was launched at the Kaziranga National Park in Assam. All of the 681 remaining eastern swamp deer in the world can only be found at the park.

The ONGC Ltd in collaboration with Wildlife Trust of India (WTI) launched here today an innovative conservation programme for the critically endangered sub-species of eastern swamp deer at Kaziranga National Park in presence of Dr BS Josyrilu, Basin Manager, ONGC and Dr PC Bhattacharya, Trustee of WTI.

The highly endangered eastern swamp deer at present numbers only 681, which is incidentally t

The Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) will help conserve the endangered eastern swamp deer, found only in Kaziranga National Park, and considered more vulnerable than the rhino.

With a population of only about 600