Ma Oilfield

• RIL-BP wins approval for drilling well in KG-D6 block

  Reliance Industries and its partner BP Plc have won approval to drill a well on the MA oil field in the flagging KG-D6 block to augment natural gas production.

• Reliance Industries gas output falls to all-time low; shuts 8th well in KG-D6 block

  Reliance Industries Ltd has shut its eighth well on the main gas fields in KG-D6 block, leading to output plummeting to all time low of 20.88 mmscmd.

• RIL plans new gas well, to explore gas in 2 sick oil wells

  Reliance Industries plans to drill one gas well and convert two sick oil wells into gas wells on the MA oilfield in the predominately gas-rich KG-D6 block as part of its attempts to boost gas production.

• Reliance Industries may see larger drop in KG-D6 gas

  The company, before the beginning of the current fiscal, had projected an output of 27.6 million standard cubic meters per day for 2012-13. This, as per its own projections, was to further dip to 22.6 mmscmd in 2013-14 and then to 20.4 mmscmd.

• RIL KG-D6 output falls to less than 35 mmscmd

  RIL, in a status report filed with the Oil Ministry, stated that natural gas production from the Dhirubhai-1 and 3 gas fields and the MA oilfield in Block KG-DWN-98/3, or KG-D6, in the Krishna-Godavari Basin of the Bay of Bengal, was 35.77 mmscmd in the week ended February 5.