From Gondwana to gas: OIL’s quiet Mahanadi bet – 22 May 2025

The geoscience push is targeting the poly-history of Mahanadi—where continental rifts, deltaic progradation, and Eocene shelf edges intersect.

With seismic maps redrawn and new data in hand, the Jagatsinghpur and Bhadrak blocks could finally unlock a frontier long overshadowed by offshore hopes.

A reinterpretation mandate hints that past assumptions didn’t go deep enough—literally.

And then the attempt is not just interpretation, it’s ranking leads, sealing risks, running techno-economic screens, and picking winners under tight scrutiny.