ONGC cuts gas supply after pipeline leak

State-run explorer Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC) said it had cut gas supplies by about 0.5 million cubic metres per day following a leak in a pipeline off the west coast of India.

By Agencies | Dec 10, 2007, 10.19 AM IST

MUMBAI: State-run explorer Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC) said it had cut gas supplies by about 0.5 million cubic metres per day following a leak in a pipeline off the west coast of India.

The leakage occured on Sunday morning in a gas pipeline from its Heera field off the Mumbai coast, ONGC said in a statement late on Sunday.

It said repair work was taken up immediately and the pipeline had been depressurised. "The pipeline would be made fully operational within a week's time," it said.

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