News from Nagapattinam in India of a technological breakthrough recently, as the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) Limited achieved the inauguration of the first Helium Extraction Pilot Plant in the country, at its Gas Collecting Station at Kuthalam near Mayiladuturai.
The Corporation produces more than a million cubic metres of natural gas per day in Kuthalam and the plant was designed, manufactured and installed by the Adsorption Research Incorporated (ARI), of the US.
The helium extraction plant was set up to extract and purify helium through a joint technology venture involving the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, ONGC, the Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics and the Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre (VECC).
Inaugurating the plant, which amounted to a set up cost of around Rs6 crore, ONGC chairman R.S. Sharma said, “The project is a significant step towards the objective of assimilating new technology to make India self- reliant in helium.”
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