Reliance to start MJ gas field in India during April-June quarter
India’s Reliance Industries will start the MJ gas field offshore India’s east coast during the April-June quarter, the company said on April 22.
“We expect to commission the field this quarter and commence production. Also, we expect to ramp up from this field to achieve about 12mn m3/day, this fiscal,” it said.
Reliance is developing the MJ field in partnership with UK oil major BP. MJ gas field lies in Indian upstream block KG D6 in water depths of 700m to 1,100m. It is the third of three gas projects in KG D6's $5bn integrated development programme.
The first two deposits, R-Series and the Satellite clusters, received FIDs in 2017 and 2018 respectively. Reliance and BP achieved the first gas at R-Series in late 2020 and brought the Satellite cluster on stream in April 2021.
Reliance and BP are expecting to ramp up the production at KG D6 to a peak of about 30mn m3/day by March 2024, which will be about 30% of India's domestic gas production and meet about 15% of the country's gas demand. The block produced 19mn m3/day in the January-March quarter.