Govt approves RIL’s KG field development investment plans for 3 years but with riders

08 Aug 2012 Evaluate

In a softening of Oil ministry’s stance on Reliance Industries (RIL), the management committee for the D6 field in the Krishna-Godavari (KG) basin on Tuesday approved field development investments for three years starting 2010-11, but with riders. The company now can develop the field only after the commerciality of fields is approved by the management committee. The committee also gave conditional approval to ‘declaration of the commerciality’ of the D-29, D-30 and D-31 finds in the block. Although, quantum of investments approved for the three fields remained unknown, some media reports suggest that investment proposals worth $1.2-1.4 billion might have been given conditional approval. The move comes at a time when the petroleum ministry, Mukesh Ambani-controlled RIL, its British partner BP Plc, and a subsidiary of Canadian joint venture partner Niko Resources are involved in flak over the recovery of costs for developing gas fields in the KG basin.

Giving into Oil Ministry's demand, Reliance Industries also shared the KG-D6 accounts with the national auditor under the terms of the production sharing contract (PSC). Earlier, oil minister S Jaipal Reddy promised expeditious clearances of the company’s investment proposals only if RIL gave access to all records and accounts of D6 block to the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG).

On the standalone basis, the company has posted a fall of 20.98% in its net profit at Rs 4473.0 crore for the quarter ended June 30, 2012 as compared to Rs 5661.0 crore for the same quarter in the previous year.  However, total income has increased by 14.23% at Rs 93779.0 crore for quarter under review as compared to Rs 82096.0 crore for the quarter ended June 30, 2011.

The Reliance Group, founded by Dhirubhai H. Ambani, is India's largest private sector enterprise, with businesses in the energy and materials value chain. Group's annual revenues are in excess of $ 30 billion. The flagship company, Reliance Industries, is a Fortune Global 500 company and is the largest private sector company in India.

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