Posts Tagged ‘ Reliance ’

Contracts like Reliance’s KG-D6 are designed to benefit private players:

After the CAG, the high-level Ashok Chawla Committee has criticised the system of Production Sharing Contracts like the one Reliance Industries signed for the gas-rich KG-D6 block, saying these contracts are designed to benefit private players at the government’s expense. Reliance bagged the KG-DWN-98/3 block in the first round of NELP, which was pioneered by [ READ MORE ]

Reliance starts production in Krishna-Godavari basin

In a significant development, Reliance Industries has begun crude oil production from the nation’s first deep-sea oilfield in Krishna Godavari basin, an accomplishment that the firm may announce in the next few days. The company’s predominantly gas-rich D6 block in Krishna Godavari basin on September 17 flowed first oil, said a source in the consortium [ READ MORE ]

Reliance Industries: Refining blues

In the June 2008 quarter, RIL posted GRMs of $15.7 per barrel, which disappointed the Street which had pencilled in margins of $16-17 per barrel, given the sharp rise in crude oil prices. Refining contributes about 55 per cent to the company’s revenues which were Rs 1.37 lakh crore in FY08. Moreover, industry watchers believe [ READ MORE ]

Reliance, divesting KG D6 Assets ?

Reliance Industries (RIL) has scrapped its plan to transfer 80% of its participatory interest in the famous D-6 block of the Krishna Godavari basin gas field, perhaps the company’s most valued asset, to four of its subsidiaries. The company had sent a letter to the petroleum ministry on Thursday (August 28) withdrawing its earlier application [ READ MORE ]

RIL to start crude production from KG basin next month

With a FPSO (Floating, Production, Storage and Offloading) vessel set to stream into Kakinada from Singapore shortly , Reliance Industries Ltd is gearing up to extract crude from its Krishna Godavari basin wells by the second half of September. The MA Fields in the D-6 block in the KG basin will produce about 40,000 barrels [ READ MORE ]

KG Basin: Doubling India’s Gas Supply by 2010

India, Asia’s third-largest oil consumer, is encouraging use of natural gas to control its oil import bill and rein in inflation but there is not enough supply to satisfy rising demand. Gas demand in India, at around 179 million standard cubic meters a day, is far short of the supply of about 95 mmscmd (including [ READ MORE ]

Historical leap towards India’s energy security

Reliance is investing $5.2 billion to develop Krishna Godavari, its largest field. Gas produced in the area is expected to more than double the country’s total output. The Mumbai-based group’s Reliance Petroleum Ltd unit is building the 580,000 barrel-a-day refinery adjacent to a 660,000 barrel-a-day plant owned by the parent. Once complete, Reliance will own [ READ MORE ]

NELP VII : Future of Oil exploration

In the recently concluded NELP VII round of bidding under the new exploration licensing policy (NELP) the government has offered 57 oil & gas blocks under NELP-VII. This included 19 deepwater blocks, 29 are onland blocks and nine blocks are in shallow water.  NELP So far In previous six rounds, the government awarded 162 blocks. So [ READ MORE ]

PCPIR, Kakinada AP: $85 Billion Investment

Hyderabad: ONGC Ltd has decided to exit the proposed refinery-cumpetrochemicals project at Kakinada in Andhra Pradesh, making way for the GMR Group, which will hold 51% equity in the project that was originally to cost Rs 31,000 crore. The project is part of Andhra Pradesh’s Petroleum Chemical and Petrochemical Investment Region (PCPIR) proposed over 600 square [ READ MORE ]

Rig Market in India

A boom in exploration in India has tripled rig usage over the past four years, adding to a global shortage and causing delays in tapping natural gas off the Indian east coast. Transocean, the world’s largest offshore drilling company, may raise rig prices further after India completes the biggest auction of offshore blocks. With crude [ READ MORE ]

Oil & Gas Market, India

Reliance Industries (RIL), which is set to kick off the first spot crude oil market in the country, will be inviting price quotes from oil refining companies shortly. This would also set the first benchmark for market-driven prices in the crude oil sector. RIL is set to be the first oil and gas private major [ READ MORE ]

Reliance Strikes Eighth Gas Discovery

Reliance announced Eighth gas discovery in NEC-OSN 97/2 (NEC-25) block located in the NEC-Mahanadi offshore basin, off the Orissa coast in Bay of Bengal. This shallow water block covering an area of 10,755 sq km in water depths ranging between 20-600 m was awarded under the bidding round of NELP I. RIL holds 90% participating [ READ MORE ]

First Discovery in Krishna Basin

Mumbai, February 13, 2008: Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) is pleased to announce the first gas discovery in exploratory block KG-DWN-2003/1 (KG-V-D3) of NELP-V. The block KG-DWN-2003/1 is located about 50 kilometers from Machalipatnam, in Andhra Pradesh in the deep waters of the Krishna Basin in the Bay of Bengal. It covers an area of 3288 [ READ MORE ]

Rigs demand: Offshore support companies on rise

As the quest for discovering oil hidden deep under the sea bed gathers momentum, fortune of Indian companies engaged in providing offshore support solutions to oil exploration companies have been riding high on the bourses.  The biggest development in this sector was the announcement of NELP-VI in February 2006, under which a total of 55 [ READ MORE ]

Reliance : FPSO on MA field

Reliance Industries has awarded a FPSO contract to Aker Floating Production. Aker Borgestad Operations will be in charge of operations and maintenance of the floating production, storage, and offloading vessel (FPSO) Aker Smart 1 at India’s MA field.The value of the five-year project is just over USD 100 million. The Reliance includes options to extend [ READ MORE ]

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