MEIL deploys 2,000-hp rig for ONGC
Megha Engineering and Infrastructures Ltd (MEIL) has deployed its fully automated and hydraulic 2,000-hp drilling rig at an ONGC asset in Rajahmundry, Andhra Pradesh, in India.
The C3BR1 NG 2000-5 can drill up to 6,000 m in high pressures and temperatures. It is the first rig of its kind to be inducted in the ONGC drilling fleet. Previously, MEIL had deployed two 2,000-hp land drilling rigs in the same asset. This marks the third rig to be established under the Rajahmundry asset of ONGC.
MEIL has received an order for 47 rigs from ONGC in global competitive bidding. Of the 27 land drilling rigs, two are mobile hydraulic rigs with a capacity of 1,500 hp, and 17 are AC VFD rigs with 1,500-hp capacity. Six others are AC VFD rigs with a capacity of 2,000 hp, and two others are HT VFD rigs of 2,000 hp.
Out of these, 20 are workover rigs and 27 are land drilling rigs. The 20 workover rigs include 12 of 50-MT capacity, four rigs are of 100 MT, and the remaining four have a capacity of 150 MT each.
