
INDIA’S ANDAMAN BASIN: SOCIAL‑MEDIA HYPE MEETS HARD GEOLOGY
The claim racing across X and Instagram this week—“ANOTHER SAUDI ON WAY 🔥🤯 | 2,200 crore barrels of oil in the Andaman Sea will make India a $20 trillion economy”—has lit up timelines. Yet behind the emojis and superlatives lies a more nuanced (and still unproven) story of deep‑water exploration, political optimism and economic possibility. Where the 2,200‑crore‑barrel number comes from The figure appears…