RIL's arbitration notice to oil ministry drags the stock lower

29 Nov 2011 Evaluate

Reliance Industries (RIL) is currently trading at Rs 765.75, down by 17.25 points or 2.20% from its previous closing of Rs 783.00 on the BSE.

The scrip opened at Rs 782.80 and has touched a high and low of Rs 782.80 and Rs 760.00 respectively. So far 613242 shares were traded on the counter.

The BSE group 'A' stock of face value Rs 10 has touched a 52 week high of Rs 1090.00 on 05-Jan-2011 and a 52 week low of Rs 713.55 on 26-Aug-2011.

Last one week high and low of the scrip stood at Rs 789.00 and Rs 751.15 respectively. The current market cap of the company is Rs 256403.10 crore.

The promoters holding in the company stood at 44.71% while Institutions and Non-Institutions held 28.39% and 23.38% respectively.

Reliance Industries (RIL), India’s biggest gas producer, has initiated an arbitration process against the Petroleum & Natural Gas Ministry owing to the latter's intention to restrict some of the expenditure that can be recouped by the company from the flagging KG-D6 gas fields. The company has slapped an arbitration notice on government against the 'violation' of the signed contract. In company’s view, the Production Sharing Contract (PSC) contains no provision which entitles the Government of India to restrict the costs recovered by the company by reference to factors such as the level of production or the extent to which field facilities are utilized.

RIL has been into the eye of the storm owing to its inability to check the falling output from the gas fields in the Krishna Godavari Basin D6 block. Recently, RIL had roped in British firm BP as a partner to use its deep water expertise.  Last week, the Petroleum Secretary said that in the next three-four weeks, the Petroleum Ministry will decide on the action to be taken against Reliance Industries for its gas output falling below target from the gas fields.

While the PSC allows operator to recover 100 per cent of their exploration and production costs and does not link cost recovery to output, the Oil Ministry was to restrict this in proportion to the gas output which has dipped by over 30 per cent over the past one year. However, the company to finally resolve this cost recovery issue has begun arbitration proceedings against the GoI in order to seek an independent view on the issue of sharing the profits on production from the Krishna Godavari gas field.

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