Hi I am looking for the information about the plant of Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) Limited which is situated at Kuthalam close Mayiladuturai, Nagapattinam locale?

Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) Limited accomplished a mechanical achievement with the initiation of the primary Helium Extraction Pilot Plant in the nation at its Gas Collecting Station at Kuthalam close Mayiladuturai, Nagapattinam locale.

Introducing the plant, which is set up at an expense of Rs.6 crore, ONGC executive said: "the task is a huge stride towards the goal of absorbing new innovation to make India confident in helium."

He said, "The helium capability of India remains for all intents and purposes unexplored yet and saddling indigenous helium stands to be a forthcoming choice to hinder an emergency of this uncommon and valuable gas in future through cutting edge innovation intercession."

The Corporation now created more than a million cubic meters of regular gas a day in Kuthalam and the plant was composed, produced and introduced by the Adsorption Research Incorporated (ARI), United States.

The director said the helium extraction plant was set up to separate and refine helium through a joint innovation wander among the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, ONGC, the Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics and the Variable Energy Cyclotron Center (VECC) in February this year.

Cretaceous age gas field

He likewise called attention to that the greater part of the gas fields in the nation were topographically youthful and had next to zero helium.

Be that as it may, Kuthalam in Tamil Nadu, was the main Cretaceous age gas field in India and the helium gas was available in 500 ppm (0.05 for every penny by volume) focus in the regular gas delivered here.

World over, fixations above 0.3 for every penny were considered for business extraction and helium was separated from normal gas through cryogenic techniques. Because of low grouping of helium in the Kuthalam gas, the Pressure Swing Adsorption (PSA) innovation was connected in four phases in order to create Helium gas of 99 for each penny virtue.

Whenever balanced out, the plant was relied upon to have a recuperation rate of 60 for every penny.

India was completely reliant on imports and required around 1,80,000 cubic meters of helium per annum at an expense of around Rs.20 crore.

"Helium has critical applications in space innovation, cryogenics (low temperature material science), atomic reactors and a large group of top of the line advancements because of its remarkable physical properties. Helium is pivotal for safe jumping operations, a basic routine movement in the ONGC's seaward operations