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UPSC 1998: Commercial production of mineral oil has started recently in which one of the areas of India, labelled 1, 2, 3 and 4 in the rough map given below:
(a)1
(b)2
(c)3
(d)4
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Not attemptedCorrect Answer: (c) 3
On the UPSC outline map, area 3 corresponds to the Cauvery (Nagapattinam–Palk Bay) offshore basin of Tamil Nadu. This was the **only** new region where ONGC had just begun commercial crude production in the mid-1990s; older fields such as Assam and Mumbai High (areas 1 & 2) were long-established, and Rajasthan’s Barmer field (area 4) was discovered only in 1999. Therefore option (c) is correct. ([edurev.in](https://edurev.in/t/203268/Geography-of-India-Solved-Questions--1995-2002-))
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This question was asked in UPSC CSE Prelims 1998, GS Paper 1, as Question 75. It falls under Geography > Economic & Mineral Geography.
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