Saxena commissions India's 1st Geothermal Wells in Ladakh | The North…

India has commissioned its first geothermal wells in Ladakh's Puga Valley—two 1,000-metre-deep boreholes drilled by ONGC Energy Centre at 14,000+ feet altitude, recording 135°C at 400 metres depth and designed to feed a 1 MW pilot geothermal power plant. The project, renewed under a five-year MOU, represents India's first demonstration-scale geothermal power generation and a stepping stone toward the government's net-zero and carbon-neutral Ladakh targets. If you build drilling, wellhead, or heat-exchange equipment for high-altitude or extreme-temperature environments, ONGC Energy Centre has just proven the Indian market and demonstrated the engineering problem—expect RFQs for the 1 MW plant and the next phase of commercial wells.