Bombay High is an offshore oilfield 160 kilometres (99 mi) off the coast of Mumbai, India. The oil operations are run by India's Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC).
Bombay High field was discovered by a Russian and Indian oil exploration team operating from the seismic exploration vessel Academic Arkhangelsky during mapping of the Gulf of Khambhat (earlier Cambay) in 1964-67. The naming of the field is attributed to a team from a survey run in 1965 analysed in the Rashmi building in Peddar Road, Cumballa Hill, Bombay. The first offshore well was sunk in 1974.
Every oil resource rock requires oil trap structures which are mainly salt dome, coral reefs, fault trap and fold trap. In case Bombay High it is anticlinal fold trap and this is the most probable reason to call it "Bombay High".
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