India’s gas production jumps 19.5% in June on back of KG-D6
NEW DELHI: India’s natural gas production jumped 19.5 per cent in June, as Reliance Industries Ltd and its partner BP Plc ramped up output from their eastern offshore KG-D6 block, government data released on Friday showed.
India produced 2.77 billion cubic meters of natural gas in June, up from 2.32 bcm in the same month last year, as per the data released by the ministry of petroleum and natural gas.
This is the fifth straight month of output rising on a year-on-year basis.
“Increase in gas production is through contributions from D-34 field of KG-DWN-98/3, which commenced from December 18, 2020 (and) wells from satellite cluster (commenced with effect from April 25, 2021),” it said.
