Cairn Lanka organizes 'Vendor Partnership' Conference

Cairn Lanka (Pvt) Limited, the country's active oil and gas exploration company, organized a vendor partnership programme in Colombo today. The objective of the conference was to encourage local business partners to join Cairn in the growth of Oil & Gas sector in Sri Lanka. The 'Colombo Partnership Meet' emphasized how local entrepreneurs and organizations could benefit from the country's oil & gas exploration activities.

Besides sharing an over view on the Oil & Gas business, the programme is aimed at giving an opportunity to Sri Lankan business community to interact with Cairn team for a better understanding of business prospects. The programme also shared details of the upcoming Sri Lanka exploration by Cairn with the business community. The forum was used to share an elaborate understanding of Cairn Lanka's HSE Commitment, which is integral to business and also a key remit to be adhered to, by all partners.

Besides giving clarity on how to engage with Cairn Lanka as a vendor partner, the forum also addressed the scope of how organisations can scale up the maturity curve to work with Cairn.

Cairn Lanka is committed to acknowledge, encourage and engage Sri Lankan business partners to help take the exploration activities to the next level. As Cairn Lanka enters into its second phase of drilling, the support and partnership from Sri Lankan vendors will be a key driver in the exploration journey.

Forty six business partners and service providers represented by more than 70 participants, attended the meet.

Cathal Daly, Head of Exploration, Cairn India Group, said, "Cairn Lanka's key objective in organizing this conference was to provide communities with an opportunity to integrate with the company's supply-chain and benefit from the growth in the company's operations. These long term benefits are expected to increase as the project progresses, especially in the petroleum development stages." Sri Lanka Block Update.

In the Sri Lanka Block SL 2007- 01-001, Cairn Lanka has successfully completed the first phase of exploration campaign, which resulted in two successive discoveries in the three well drilling programme. The company has entered the second phase of exploration and completed acquisition of 600 sq km of 3D seismic data. Processing of this data is underway. With the exploration drilling planned in mid 2013, tendering for the drilling rig and the associated services is in progress.

The potential commercial interest notification has been submitted for the two Discoveries i.e. the Dorado and Barracuda wells, as per the terms of the Petroleum Resource Agreement (PRA)

On January 9, 2007, Cairn India Limited was listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange and the National Stock Exchange of India. Cairn India is now part of the Vedanta Group, a globally diversified natural resources group with wide ranging interests in aluminium, copper, zinc, lead, silver, iron ore, etc.

Cairn India is headquartered in Gurgaon in the National Capital Region, with operational offices in Tamil Nadu, Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh, Rajasthan and Sri Lanka.

Cairn India is primarily engaged in the business of oil and gas exploration, production and transportation. Average daily gross operated production was 206,963 boe in Q1 FY2012-13.

The Company has a world-class resource base, with interest in eight blocks in India and one in Sri Lanka. Cairn India's resource base is located in three strategically focused areas namely one block in Rajasthan, two on the west coast of India and six on the east coast of India, including one in Sri Lanka.