Will protect ONGC´s interest in row: Pradhan

Oil Minister Dharmendra Pradhan has vowed to protect government and ONGC´s interest on the issue of its natural gas from Bay of Bengal block flowing to adjoining fields of Reliance Industries. Pradhan said a committee under Law Commission Chairman AP Shah has been constituted to look into acts of omission and commission and recommend compensation to ONGC. US-based consultant D&M, in its final report, stated as much as 11.122 bln cubic mt of natural gas, worth over Rs.11,000 crore, had migrated from idling KG fields of ONGC to adjoining KG-D6 block of RIL.