ONGC Reports Gas Leak From Well Being Drilled Off Mumbai Coast

New Delhi: Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC), India's largest explorer, has marginally cut oil output from the country's biggest oil producing asset off the west coast following a gas leak from a well being drilled.

"As a precaution we have shut gas injection into some of the nearby wells in the Mumbai High north fields," N K Verma, the company's exploration chief, told Reuters.

"Our crisis management team is already there and we have evacuated the non-essential staff from the area."

Because of the stoppage of gas injection into some of the wells there is a marginal loss of oil production, he added.

ONGC has evacuated 48 people and is working towards plugging the leak, it said in a statement.

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