Abstract

India is a peninsular country which is surrounded by sea in three sides, having huge offshore environs in its periphery. Among all the promising petroliferous basins of India, the Krishna Godavari Basin is one of most potential basin with viable & commercial accumulations of hydrocarbons and is located along the East Coast of India bordering the state of Andhra Pradesh and covers an area of 100,000 sq. km in both onland, shallow and deep waters. The estimated resources in the basin are around 2000 million tons of oil or oil-equivalent gas and the basin comprises a vast range of depositional settings such as coastal plains, deltas, shelf-slope aprons and deep-sea fans.