RIL’s KG-D6 output again drops

After two months of increase, natural gas production from Reliance Industries’ eastern offshore KG-D6 block has again started to drop.

Output, which had risen to 13.63 million standard cubic meters per day in February, has dropped to 13.28 mmscmd this month, the Directorate General of Hydrocarbon (DGH) said in a production status report to the Oil Ministry.

RIL produced a total of 13.58 mmscmd of gas from Dhirubhai-1 and 3 gas fields and MA oil and gas field in the KG-DWN-98/3 or KG-D6 block in Bay of Bengal in the first week of February, which rose to 13.63 mmscmd in the following week.

However, output has since dropped to 13.28 mmscmd in the week ending March 9, it said.