Asokan I like to tell you that the above finds i mentioned are related to Pre-NELP and the current round is NELP-VI so 6 rounds of licensing have been alloted the last round i.e VI had 55 blocks and the least ever that has ever been awarded is 28 blocks so in an average there are 240 blocks to be explored and one good find has the potential to overcome all worlds production as the Ganges and brahamaputra are flowing for ages into the bay of bengal and Indus, Jhelum, Ravi etc have been flowing into arabian sea, so take into consideration about the sedimenation its enormous its in ultradeep waters say 3000m water depth so there are challenges but with the right technology we can make it, I am positive as I have spoken to some of thw worlds best geologist and professors from UK and the world and they are curious to know the hidden potential of our amazing basins, so we have just hit a small bit of our massive reserve and yes Iran front is important as we can have gas delivered at our door but world political affairs r more challengin then finding hydrocarbon reserves. and yes rajkumar we need alternate energy its nice to see India developing all fields of energy opportunities, renewable, non renewable its all energy and employment and eventually development, but i will urge graduates not just head in direction of one field like a civil engineer opting IT, I wont support it, I would like to see a civil engineer as a good structural engineer or transportation engineer, India is looking to develop infrastructure big time so any graduates shouldnt shift fields to just one area as its the highest paid in India as this will lead to knowledge gaps and like energy security we need our graduates concentrating in new areas as well, we need good quality engineers and scientist not just IT engineers every where its a bit boring i pressume mail me if anyone is interested in knowing abt a career in the oil industry ill will like to pass on some good academic materials rockwater@rediffmail.com
