Reliance Industries Ltd.

Reliance Industries’ (RIL) production facilities at an oil field in its showpiece KG-D6 block off the Andhra coast has shut down for maintenance without any impact on production till now. On July 31 the company took a shutdown to do maintenance work at a compressor on the floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) unit operating in the MA oilfield. The maintenance work will take 12-14 days and gas production from MA field will remain shut for only 36-48 hours around this weekend.

The MA field had not been shut down during the maintenance of FPSO which pumped out oil from the field. The wells continue to produce oil and gas. While gas production from MA oilfield has come down by 0.2-0.3 mmscmd, one out of the 16 production wells in the D1 and D3 has also been shut down for maintenances, reducing output by 0.4-0.5 mmscmd. The production of the KG-D6 block, which besides MA oilfield, is about 45.4 mmscmd of gas presently as compared to over 46 mmscmd last week.