Domestic natural gas output up 19% in May

Domestic natural gas production increased 19.1% on year to 2,740 million standard cubic metre (mscm) in May, mainly due to higher production from Reliance Industries and BP’s ultra-deep-water field in the KG-D6 Block of the Krishna Godavari basin on the east coast. The output had fallen 8.1% y-o-y to 28,670.6 mscm in FY21.
RIL and BP’s new field started production in December 2020 at 1.3 mscm per day (mscmd) and ramped up to 9.6 mscmd in March 2021.