Cairn Looks to Hire Americans to Build India’s Shale Sector

Vedanta Ltd.’s Cairn Oil & Gas is looking to quadruple daily output to the equivalent of 1 million barrels over the better part of the next decade as India’s largest private sector oil producers basks in the war-drive surge in crude prices.

Cairn executives are in Houston this week looking to spend as much as $5 billion with oilfield contractors who will help the company develop fields at home that include shale formations, Vedanta Chairman Anil Agarwal said during an interview.

Cairn’s aim is to hire 10 Americans to apply the US shale playbook in India, where the company hopes ...