After Andaman Breakthrough, India Launches Mega East Coast Energy Hunt | Exclusive

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• After Andaman Breakthrough, India Launches Mega East Coast Energy Hunt | Exclusive Reported By, Last Updated: June 06, 2026, 08:23 IST The government has invited global bids for fresh surveys across four key east coast basins as it looks to unlock untapped oil and natural gas reserves.
• Rapid Read India is stepping up its hunt for new oil and gas reserves along the east coast.
• (Representative image) With Oil India striking natural gas for the second time in months in the Andaman Sea, India is stepping up its hunt for new oil and gas reserves along the east coast.
• The government is launching a major effort to reprocess decades-old seismic data and undertake fresh deep-water surveys across some of the country’s most prospective sedimentary basins, CNN-News18 has learnt.
• The latest initiative covers the Mahanadi, Bengal-Purnea, Cauvery and Krishna-Godavari (KG) basins, where the government has now invited bids from global geophysical...