RIL to drill D1& D3 gas fields on KG-D6 block at own cost: Report

16 Aug 2012 Evaluate

Billionaire Mukhesh Ambani owned Reliance Industries (RIL), as a onetime exception, has proposed to drill the first exploration well in almost five years in the flagging Dhirubhai-1 and 3 (D1&D3) gas fields on KG-D6 block, at its own cost, as mentioned in a media report. The company, which is keen on studying the reservoir characteristic, would be recovering cost only if the discoveries proved to be commercial.

Output in D1&D3’s, the biggest of the 18 finds RIL has made in the deep-sea block in Bay of Bengal, has dwindled from 53-54 million standard cubic metre per day (mscmd) achieved in March, 2010 to about 23 mscmd this month. Together with 6 mscmd output from MA oilfield in the same block, KG-D6, currently, is producing about 29 mscmd, as against peak output of 61.5 mscmd in March 2010. Earlier, in this month, the company, on grounds of ‘unforeseen geological surprises’, pruned natural gas reserves in its main production gas fields in the Krishna Godavari basin D6 block by 70% to 3.10 Trillion cubic feet (Tcf).

Recently, 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.

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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