“…Stratigraphy, tectonic setting, and hydrocarbon prospectivity of the Indian side of the Cauvery Basin have been addressed in detail by Sastri et al (1973;1981); Chandra et al (1991); Ramana et al (1995); Murthy et al (2008); Rana et al (2008); Lal et al (2009); Rao, et al (2010); Chaudhuri et al (2010); Chakraborty et al (2018); Bastia and Radhakrishna, (2012), etc. Those facts on the Sri Lankan counterpart have been addressed by Cantwell et al, (1978); Premarathne, (2008Premarathne, ( , 2015Premarathne, ( , 2017Premarathne, ( , 2020; Bandara et al, 2020). Most of this information comes from gravity, magnetic and seismic data, and well reports gathered as a result of hydrocarbon exploration in the basin.…”