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To: Mohan Marette who wrote (5597)	8/16/1999 3:37:00 PM
From: Mohan Marette	Respond to of 12475

Oil struck in Rajasthan for the first time (Tuesday, August 17, 1999) Our Energy Editor in New Delhi Oil has been struck near Barmer in Rajasthan, the first time in the Rajasthan-Gujarat basin, marking a major achievement for oil exploration in the region. The oil was struck at a depth of around 1900 metres on Sunday by Shell India Production Development (SIPD) in a sandstone reservoir at Sanchor basin and the well was flowing at a rate of 2000 barrels per day, an official release issued yesterday said. This is also the first find by a private international oil company under a system of 'offer of blocks' that the government has been following for over 20 years, it said. India had entered into a production sharing contract with a consortium of SIPD BV and Cairn Energy Limited for the block, and two wells had been drilled in the block. Drilling of this second well started on May 22 this year and after reaching a depth of 2910 metres, "the well kicked with the influx being mainly oil", the release said. In the first well, which the consortium drilled upto a depth of 2573 metres, the side wall core samples confirmed presence of oil at 1879 metres, it said. business-standard.com

To: Mohan Marette who wrote (5597)	8/16/1999 4:18:00 PM
From: Mohan Marette	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12475

India can make neutron bomb, says Atomic Energy Commission chief PRESS TRUST OF INDIA Mumbai, Aug 16: India has the capacity to build a neutron bomb, according to Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) chairman Rajagopala Chidambaram. Indian nuclear scientiss, after the Pokharan-2 tests, can design and make nuclear weapons of "any type or size," he said. Neutron bomb, which is a battlefield weapon, is essentially a low-yield thermo-nuclear device, where the neutron-producing fusion process dominates over the fission trigger. It is not difficult to build such a device, according to Chidambaram. India, which exploded a hydrogen bomb and four fission devices under the Thar desert in May last year and declared a moratorium on further tests, has not stopped its nuclear weapons research, according to top officials of the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC). "The research is on. We have not stopped (it)," said BARC director Anil Kakodkar. The test devices were designed and built in BARC. Kakodkar, however, declined to elaborate. India is free to carry out sub-critical tests to keep on refining the weapon codes, but authorities were unwilling to comment if such studies are being done in BARC. According to former AEC chief Krishna Gopala Iyengar, subcritical studies will require expensive facilities. Meanwhile, authorities said that analysis of rock samples obtained from drilling at all the five holes at the Pokharan test site has been completed. Chidambaram said the analysis had established beyond doubt that the hydrogen bomb did explode producing an yield as per design. (There were some reports in the West that only the fission trigger worked and that secondary fusion fuel failed to explode). Chidambaram said that the samples carried evidence of reactions caused by 14 million volt neutrons. "Such high energy neutrons are produced only in the fusion process," he said. "This is a proof that our hydrogen bomb did explode." According to Chidambaram, the yield obtained from sample analysis (60-kiloton) also tallied with that obtained from seismic data. Kakodkar said the analysis of post-shot drilling data is classified, as it contains information about actual design of the bombs and material used. financialexpress.com

To: Mohan Marette who wrote (5597)	8/16/1999 4:25:00 PM
From: JPR	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12475

Mohan: Your ref: hindustantimes.com NDA to free nation from hunger, graft 216.32.165.70 The presentation in these two links speaks very well for the BJP alliance, compared to the anemic Congress platform, supported by rickety wobbly stilts. Sonia's tirade about the Kargil was ill-advised at best, considering Jawaharlal Nehru's fiasco with the Chinese invasion of India. His much-cherished and much ballyhooed China-India brotherhood was given the boot and trampled violently to death during his administration. JPR