Mumbai High is an offshore oilfield off the coast of Mumbai. As of 2004, it supplies 14% of India's oil requirement and accounts for about 38% of all domestic production.
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 Cambay in 1964-1967. The naming of the field is attributed to a team including Mr. M. Krishnamurthy, from a survey run in 1965 analysed in the Rashmi building in Peddar Road, Mumbai.
The first offshore well was sunk in 1974.
(source:ONGC Special Report on URL: http://www.ongc.net checked Jan 2005)
As capital of the Bombay Presidency, it was a major base for the Indian independence movement, with the Quit India Movement called by Mahatma Gandhi in 1942 being its most rubric event.
Mumbai is the seat of the BombayHigh Court, which exercises jurisdiction over the states of Maharashtra and Goa, and the Union Territories of Daman and Diu and Dadra and Nagar Haveli.
Built in 1833, the Asiatic Society of Bombay is the oldest public library in the city.
Gandhi was a mediocre student in his youth at Porbandar and later Rajkot, and barely passed the matriculation exam for the University of Bombay in 1887, joining Samaldas College.
He applied for a part-time job as a teacher at a Bombayhigh school, but was turned down.
Following this, he was arrested in Bombay by British forces on August 9, 1942 and held for two years.
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