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Samudra Manthan Offshore Exploration Scheme
Samudra Manthan is a central government scheme that meets a large share of the cost of drilling for oil and gas far out at sea, and it is run by the petroleum ministry rather than by India's ocean-science programmes.
Last updated 3 August 20266 min read
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Cabinet cleared Samudra Manthan: ₹84,084 crore to de-risk deepwater oil and gas drilling up to March 2031, with the state meeting as much as half of each well's cost.
- Samudra Manthan
- National Offshore Exploration Scheme
- deepwater exploration
- Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas
- hydrocarbons
- energy security
- Krishna-Godavari basin
- Central Sector Scheme
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