Tata Chemicals, Indo Gulf and IFFCO will be among the first consumers of natural gas that Reliance Industries will start producing from its eastern offshore Krishna Godavari basin fields by next month.
The government has given gas-based urea manufacturing plants the top most priority in allocating the initial 40 million standard cubic meters per day output expected from Reliance's KG-D6 fields, official sources said.
Eight fertiliser plants on the Hazira-Vijaipur-Jagdishpur -- the state-owned GAIL India-run pipeline that transports fuel from Gujarat coast to North -- circuit would get 7.026 mmscmd of Reliance gas, while 6.689 mmscmd would go to Kribco and GSFC's units in Gujarat, Rashtriya Chemical's Maharashtra plants and Nagarjuna Fertilisers in Andhra Pradesh.
KG-D6 gas will land at Kakinada in Andhra Pradesh, from where it will be transported to Bharuch in Gujarat through a 1,386-km pipeline laid by Reliance. In Gujarat, Reliance will use the pipeline network of Gujarat State Petronet Ltd to take the gas to end-consumers as well as connect to HVJ pipeline.
Sources said on HVJ, National Fertilisers will get 0.65 mmscmd, Chambal Fertilisers 1.15 mmscmd, and Indian Farmers Fertiliser Coop's Aonla and Phulpur units in Uttar Pradesh 1.75 and 0.52 mmscmd, respectively, Kribhco Sahajahanpur 0.978 mmscmd, Tata's Babrala plant 0.88 mmscmd, Indo Gulf Fertilisers 0.48 mmscmd and Shriram Fertilisers' Kota plant 0.62 mmscmd.