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Vedanta Resources PLC

13 September 2018

13 September 2018

Vedanta Resources plc

Update from Vedanta Limited

KG-OSN-2009/3 Discovery, Krishna-Godavari Basin, India

Vedanta Resources plc's subsidiary, Vedanta Limited today made the below announcement.

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Vedanta Limited has today notified the Management Committee, Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas and Directorate General of Hydrocarbons (DGH) of a hydrocarbon Discovery in well A3-2 within its operated block KG-OSN-2009/3 within Krishna-Godavari Basin, East Coast of India. Vedanta Limited holds 100% participating interest in the block.

A3-2 is the first exploration well drilled within the KG-OSN-2009/3 block. Multiple reservoir zones were encountered in the Mesozoic rift formation between the depths of 3351-3944m MDBRT with indications of hydrocarbon during drilling and formation evaluations. Down hole formation tester (MDT) sampled oil and gas from the zones of interest. The zone from 3610-3715m MDBRT flowed gas to surface during well testing. Further appraisal will be required to assess the potential commerciality of this Mesozoic rift discovery.

For further information, please contact:

 
 Communications                          Finsbury 
 Arun Arora                              Daniela Fleischmann 
  Head, Corporate Communications          Tel: +44 20 7251 3801 
  Tel: +91 124 459 3000 
  gc@vedanta.co.in 
 Investors 
 Rashmi Mohanty                          Tel: +44 20 7659 4732 
  Director - Investor Relations           Tel: +91 22 6646 1531 
                                          ir@vedanta.co.in 
 
  Sunila Martis 
  Associate General Manager - Investor 
  Relations 
 
  Veena Sankaran 
  Manager - Investor Relations 
 

About Vedanta Resources

Vedanta Resources plc ("Vedanta") is a London listed diversified global natural resources company. The group produces aluminium, copper, zinc, lead, silver, iron ore, oil & gas and commercial energy. Vedanta has operations in India, Zambia, Namibia and South Africa. With an empowered talent pool globally, Vedanta places strong emphasis on partnering with all its stakeholders based on the core values of trust, sustainability, growth, entrepreneurship, integrity, respect and care. For more information on Vedanta Resources, please visit www.vedantaresources.com

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