Kg D6

Reliance Industries, bp start production from MJ field in KG block

Reliance Industries Ltd, and its partner bp Plc on Friday announced the start of regular production from MJ oil and gas field in the KG-D6 block, helping scale up India's output of clean fuel to over 100 million cubic meters a day. MJ is the third and the last set of discoveries in the KG-DWN-98/3 or KG-D6 block, off the east coast that the consortium was working on. All three sets of discoveries, with MJ being the deepest, were made more than a decade back and have been progressively put into production. Together, the three sets of discoveries at their peak production will make up for 15 per cent of India's demand, the companies said in a statement on Friday. "The start of gas and condensate production from the MJ field follows the start-up of the R-Cluster field in December 2020 and Satellite Cluster in April 2021," it said. All three developments utilise the existing hub infrastructure for the block. "Together, the three fields are expected to produce around 30 million standard

ONGC sells KG basin field's gas to Torrent, GAIL at $11 per mmBtu

State-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) has sold initial gas it is producing from its KG basin fields in the Bay of Bengal to three firms, including Torrent Gas, sources said. In an e-auction, the firm sold 1.4 million standard cubic meters per day - a fraction of the planned output from the block that sits next to Reliance Industries' prolific KG-D6 area in the Bay of Bengal, to Torrent Gas Pune Ltd, GAIL (India) Ltd and Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd (HPCL). GAIL picked up 0.8 mmscmd while HPCL took 0.42 mmscmd and Torrent 0.12 mmscmd, sources aware of the matter said. The company had sought bids from users like city gas operators that sell CNG to automobiles and pipe cooking gas to households, companies using gas to produce fertiliser or make electricity, LPG producers and traders, for the gas from its KG-DWN-98/2 or KG-D5 block. ONGC asked companies to quote a premium 'P' that they are willing to pay over and above the rate arrived at by calculating 14 per cent

Reliance to commission its deepwater MJ gas condensate field by year-end

Reliance Industries Ltd will commission its deepwater MJ gas condensate field in Bay of Bengal block KG-D6 by year end, boosting natural gas output to 30 per cent of India's total. "With respect to the MJ gas condensate field project being pretty much on track, for the first gas production by the end of the year," said Sanjay Roy, senior vice-president for exploration and production, Reliance Industries Ltd, at an investor call post announcement of the company's second quarter earnings. MJ is the third and last of a set of discoveries that Reliance and its partner bp are developing in the eastern offshore block. The two will use a floating production system at the high sea in the Bay of Bengal to bring to production the deepest gas discovery in the KG-D6 block. "The offshore installation campaign has been completed. So, the subsea production system has been installed. The Phase-II drilling and completion campaign is currently underway, and we've completed one well, then we are on ..

RIL to press KG-Basin for higher revenues after govt hikes gas price

The KG-D6 asset is enlisted under the Deepwater, Ultra Deepwater, and High Pressure-High Temperature area (collectively called difficult discoveries) category

Reliance, BP announce start of production from gas field in KG D6 block

Two companies are developing three deep-water gas developments in block KG D6

RIL, BP find gas from KG Basin's R-cluster, Asia's deepest offshore field

The two companies are developing three deepwater gas projects in block KG D6, which together are expected to meet 15 per cent of India's gas demand by 2023

D1/D3 gas field in Reliance's KG-D6 block shuts down: Report

While at the peak, it was India's biggest gas field, in the last quarter D1/D3 produced an average of just 1.5 mmscmd

RIL, BP to submit revised investment plan for KG-D6 gas finds

They said development of six satellite finds are being taken up together