RIL fails to meet gas commitment

29 Mar 2011 Evaluate

Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL), the operator of the country’s biggest gas field, KG-D6, has not met its commitment on drilling gas wells, according to the government’s upstream oil regulator. Reliance had committed to drill 22 wells in the Dhirubhai-1 and 3 fields or D1, the largest of 18 gas discoveries in the block KG-DWN-98/3 or KG-D6 block in the Bay of Bengal, by April 2011 to produce 53.4 million standard cubic meters of gas per day (mscmd). Another 8-9 mscmd output was to come from MA oilfield in the same block, taking the total output committed in the Field Development Plan (FDP) to 61.88 mscmd by April 2011. Earlier this month, RIL projected the gas output from D1 and D3 gas fields will fall to 38 mscmd in 2012-13.


Against its commitment, RIL has so far drilled and completed 18 production wells on D1 and D3 fields giving a combined output of about 42 mscmd. Besides, two other wells have been drilled but not connected to the production system. The company has to drill two more wells by April. Output from KG-D6 is to hit peak of 80 mscmd by 2012-13, with the company drilling a total of 31 wells. D1 and D3 gas fields and MA oilfield are currently producing about 50 mscmd.

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