Cairn India can produce up to 2,40,000 barrels per day from its prolific Rajasthan fields, equivalent to output from the nation's largest oilfield of Mumbai High, the company has informed the government. Cairn India CEO Rahul Dhir last week wrote to the Petroleum Ministry and the sector regulator DGH informing that it can produce 37 per cent more oil from the Thar dessert fields than previously thought. "Based on our review, we estimate that the potential resource in the (Rajasthan) block is now estimated to be 6.5 billion barrels of oil equivalent in place. This resource base provides a basis for a vision to produce 2,40,000 barrels of oil per day, subject of course to necessary approvals and additional investments," he wrote in identical letters to Petroleum Minister Murli Deora, Oil Secretary S Sundareshan and DGH Director General S K Srivastava.Cairn India, a unit of UK explorer Cairn Energy Plc, in December 2004, discovered the Mangala field in the Rajasthan block - the largest onland oil discovery in the world that year. Mangala, the largest onland oil field in India, was estimated to produce a peak output of 125,000 bpd which has now been revised to 150,000 bpd following more than anticipate oil from some 50 development wells drilled on the field so far.
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