Abstract

The Krishna Godavari Basin is one of the country's most promising petroliferous basins, with viable & commercial accumulations of hydrocarbons on land and offshore. This basin is located along the east coast of India bordering the state of Andhra Pradesh and covers an area of 100,000 sq. km both on-land and offshore. The basin evolved through crustal rifting and subsequent drifting during the Mesozoic and Cenozoic. The basin comprises a vast range of depositional settings such as coastal plains, deltas, shelf-slope aprons and deep-sea fans. Estimated resources in the basin are around 2000 million tons of oil or oilequivalent gas. The reservoirs are in sediments of all ages from Permian to Pliocene.