The Ministry of Environment and Forest (MoEF) has granted the Terms of Reference (ToR) to Vedanta Ltd’s Cairn Oil & Gas, to carry out Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) for drilling a total of 274 offshore and onshore oil and gas exploration wells in the Bay of Bengal, Nagapattinam, Karaikal, Villupuram and Puducherry.
The sanction letter with the ToR to proceed with the EIA was issued to the company on Saturday and Sunday, kickstarting the first step in the process.
Vedanta proposes to drill 116 exploratory and appraisal wells in project block 1 and 158 wells in project block 2.