Reliance Industries plunges near 52-week low level

14 May 2012 Evaluate

Reliance Industries is currently trading at Rs 682.15, down by 15.15 points or 2.17% from its previous closing of Rs 697.30 on the BSE.

The scrip opened at Rs 701.40 and has touched a high and low of Rs 702.45 and Rs 679.40 respectively. So far 487777 shares were traded on the counter.

The BSE group 'A' stock of face value Rs 10 has touched a 52 week high of Rs 967.90 on 03-Jun-2011 and a 52 week low of Rs 671.00 on 08-May-2012.

Last one week high and low of the scrip stood at Rs 722.00 and Rs 671.00 respectively. The current market cap of the company is Rs 222853.52 crore.

The promoters holding in the company stood at 44.75% while Institutions and Non-Institutions held 28.26% and 23.54% respectively.

The stocks of the company has been in eye of storm ever since the Oil Ministry hiked the penalty it wants to impose on Mukesh Ambani owned Reliance Industries (RIL) and its British partner BP plc for diminishing natural gas output from KG-D6 fields, by 18 percent to $1.46 billion.

Blaming the company for violating production sharing contract obligations, the Ministry had previously wanted to prohibit $1.235 billion expenditure that the beleaguered company had incurred on putting production facilities at the Bay of Bengal gas fields but in the 7-page notice sent to the company on May 2, the cost to be disallowed was put at $1.462 billion. The ministry comprehended the drop in pressure as under-utilisation or creation of excess capacity and hence urged to disallow cost recovery in proportion to that.

The drop in reservoir pressure coupled with increased water and sand ingress has seen output from Dhirubhai-1 and 3 gas fields in the deepsea KG-DWN-98/3 or KG-D6 block fall from 53-54 million standard cubic meters per day achieved in March 2010 to 27.5 mmscmd last month, way below from projected 80 mmscmd for current year.

Earlier, the ministry, wanted to disallow $457 million of cost recovery for 2010-11 and $778 million of cost recovery in 2011-12. Anticipating such a move, RIL has in November last year slapped an arbitration notice on the ministry saying the PSC allows operators to recover 100 per cent of the capital and operating expenditure and does not in any way link the cost recovery to production.

However, the ministry has thus far tried to brow-beat RIL into withdrawing the arbitration notice, stating that no dispute has arisen as yet but its notice of May 2 surely establishes there is a dispute over how much of cost can be recovered

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