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BP Aims to Increase Gas From India’s KG-D6 Fourfold by 2022
BP Plc is working with its partner Reliance Industries Ltd. to increase natural gas production from the deepwater D6 block in the Krishna Godavari basin as much as fourfold by 2022, according to the chief of the British company’s India unit. The companies aim to produce 30 million to 35 million metric standard cubic meters a day of gas from the block on India’s east coast after they develop three new fields, Sashi Mukundan, head of BP’s India unit, said Monday in New Delhi. Gas production from KG-D6 averaged about 8.7 million cubic meters a day in the April to June quarter, said in a July 15 presentation.
The companies are preparing to restart work in four offshore oil and gas blocks as they seek to revive development activity stalled for seven years by disputes with the government. Reliance and BP intend to withdraw from multiple arbitration proceedings against the government related to KG-D6 people with knowledge of the plan said in May. Reliance spokesman Tushar Pania declined to comment Monday on the production target.
The effort to resolve disputes with the government “has created confidence for us to move forward,” Mukundan said. BP and Reliance are looking to develop three discoveries in three different fields and invest “several billion dollars,” he said. Production from the KG-D6 block, discovered in 2002, has tumbled since hitting a peak in 2010 of around 62 million cubic meters a day. The companies continued with offshore exploration activities there, while pausing development drilling because of disputes with the government over gas prices and cost recovery. Patrick Robinson Jersey
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