Directorate General of Hydrocarbon (DGH) opined that recovery of cost incurred by companies on exploration activity in the producing oil and gas fields must be allowed only under certain conditions. The upstream oil regulator recommended that the exploration firm must submit a feasible investment plan for producing from the discovery in order to be eligible for cost recovery
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RIL to drill probe well in KG D6
Niko Resources informed that its partner Reliance Industries (RIL) has spud its first exploration well in more than five years on the flagging natural gas fields in KG-D6 block. Niko is the minority partner of RIL in the Krishna Godavari basin block. RIL has spud the MJ-1 exploration well on the Dhirubhai-1 and 3 gas fields in the KG-DWN-98/3 or KG-D6 block in its efforts to explore new reserves to supplement falling
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RIL produces 1.58 tn cubic feet of gas till March 2012
Minister of State for Petroleum Panabaaka Lakshmi informed Lok Sabha that the actual cumulative natural gas production at Reliance Industries' (RIL) D-1, D-3 fields of KG D6 Block up to March 31, 2012, was 1.584 trillion cubic feet against the projected 2.030 trillion cubic feet. The decline in output in 2011-12 is attributed to water or sand ingress in six out of the total 18 gas producing wells in the D-1 and D
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Minister asks secretary to address RIL issue
Union Petroleum Minister Veerapa Moily asked the newly appointed oil secretary Vivek Rae to take steps to resolve the difference of opinion between Reliance Industries (RIL) and the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG). Following the direction, Rae is reportedly making efforts to resolve some differences between the company and the auditor
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Fall in gas output at KG D6 hits RGPPL’s operation
Falling output at the Reliance Industries' (RIL) KG D6 basin affected natural gas supply to Ratnagiri Gas & Power's (RGPPL) 1,967 mw Dabhol power plant in Maharashtra. Consequently, power generation has been stopped at the plant since February 21. Following this, MahaVitaran, which procures 95 percent power, stopp
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RIL eyes $4 billion Iraq oilfield project
India's ` (RIL) is in race along with French energy giant Total, Russia's Lukoil, CNPC of China, American's Brown Energy for a $4 billion project in Iraq. RIL is one of the seven companies shortlisted by Iraq for developing its al-Nassiriya oilfield and construction and operation of a 300,000 barrel per day refine
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Govt clears exploration in some oil and gas blocks
At a recent meeting of the National Secretary Advisor Shivshankar Menon and Principal Secretary to Prime Minister Pulok Chatterji, it was decided to clear Reliance Industries' (RIL) producing KG-D6 block and gas discovery area NEC-26. The meeting, held on February 27, decided to clear fully the exploration and production at the blocks and also
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Oil firms term pricing formula of Rangarajan panel as “defective”
Oil and gas exploration companies submitted their views on the recommendations of the C Rangarajan committee on natural gas pricing to union petroleum ministry. The companies argue that linking the price of domestic natural gas to that prevalent in gas-surplus economies is defective
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CAG complains against RIL to oil ministry
Reports indicate that the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) wrote to the union petroleum minister M Veerappa Moily that Reliance Industries (RIL) was not cooperating with the audit of the spending on the flagging KG-D6 fields. It is learnt that the company declined to share the documents related to its legal case against the oil mini
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RIL, BP bank on $5 bn investment to reverse fall in output
According to a joint statement from Reliance Industries (RIL) and BP, their jointly proposed $5 billion investment includes testing of a new layer of natural gas under the rapidly depleting fields in the KG-D6 fields. Both the firms agreed to invest jointly of $5 billion in the next few years to boost natural gas output in the flagging Krishna Godavari (KG) D6 basin gradually from 201