According to a latest report of the Directorate General of Hydrocarbons (DGH), Reliance Industries (RIL) shut its ninth well – A1 – on the Krishna Godavari (KG)-D6 block for “reservoir build-up study.
The closure of the well resulted in the gas output from the block falling to an all-time low of 15.5 million standard cubic metre per day (mmscmd).
In the week ending April 7, the output from D1&D3 oil fields declined to 11.70 mmscmd following thee latest shutting, the report said. Together with 4.09 mmsmcd from MA oilfield in the same block, the output totalled 15.79 mmscmd in the week.
But the production has since declined further to 15.50 mmscmd this week, the lowest level since D1&D3 started production in April 2009.
Owing to high volumes of water and sand seeping in, the company was forced to shut the previous eight wells, which affected production. It had previously shut well B6, the eighth well to be closed on D1&D3, on January 9 and B4, the seventh well, on November 29 last year.
RIL has so far drilled 22 wells on D1&D3 fields but has put only 18 on production so far. Half of these wells are now shut.
In March 2010, the company attained peak production of 69.43 mmscmd at the KG-D6 fields, which began production in April 2009.
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