RIL to upgrade processes at KG-D6 facility during maintenance

<p>Mukesh Ambani led Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) is planning to upgrade processes at Krishna – Godavari (KG-D6) basin, located off the coast of Andhra Pradesh, in an effort to continue production swiftly.</p>
<p>Reliance Industries is currently in the process of maintenance of its KG-D6 gas field, which will go on for a period of 12 to 14 days. During this time, wells will continue to remain functional, producing oil at regular rate. RIL undertook a shutdown on July 31st to carry out maintenance work at a compressor on the Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) unit operating in the MA oilfield. The compressor is likely to attain an upgrade during this process.</p>
<p>The Krishna – Godavari basin block KG-DWN-98/3 (D6) has 19 oil and gas finds. Of these, Dhirubhai -1, Dhirubhai- 3 fields and an oil field MA are currently the largest and completely functional. While KG-D6 is producing about 45.4 mmscmd of gas per day, MA oilfield produces a little less than 15,000 barrels per day of oil and about 7.6 million standard cubic meters per day of natural gas from its five wells. During the two week maintenance procedure, the MA oil fields will be temporarily shut down for a period of 36-48 hours during this weekend.</p>
<p>The present output from RIL oil and gas fields is sufficient to meet the contracted demand of core sectors, as directed by the oil ministry – 15.35 mmscmd for fertilizer units, 29 mmscmd for power plants, 0.65 mmscmd for city gas distribution firms and 2.59 mmscmd to LPG plants. Oil ministry had noted that production from KG-D6 will first be directed to meet the demands of core sectors, and any surplus following this will be directed to non-core sectors, including petrochemicals, refineries and steel.</p>
<p>RIL‘s KG-D6 block has been widely acclaimed for being highly cost-efficient and time driven. It is one of the more productive fields of RIL.</p>