RIL successfully tests its peak output capacity of K-G fields

28 Dec 2009, 2108 hrs IST, PTI

NEW DELHI: Mukesh Ambani-run Reliance Industries today said it has successfully tested the design capacity of its massive eastern offshore Krishna-Godavari basin D6 field production facilities.

"A flow rate of 80 million standard cubic meters (the peak production envisaged from KG-D6 fields) was achieved through the KG-D6 facilities and delivered" to the pipeline, a company statement said here.

RIL, which is currently producing about 60 mmscmd gas from two of the 18 gas discoveries in the KG-D6 block, has put deep-sea production facilities to produce 80 mmscmd. These facilities were successfully tested last week.

"Within a month of emerging as the largest producer of natural gas in the country, RIL announces that it has successfully carried out an assessment of the design capacity of the KG-D6 deepwater gas production facilities on December 23," the statement said.

80 million units of gas was delivered to the Reliance Gas Transportation Infrastructure Ltd -- the firm that owns the East-West pipeline that transports the KG-D6 gas from Kakinada on the Andhra coast to Baruch in Gujarat.

"At present, RIL is producing about 60 mmscmd of gas which is being supplied to several priority sectors identified by the Government under its Gas Utilization Policy," it said.