Reliance, BP start production at Satellite Cluster ahead of schedule

Reliance Industries (RIL) and BP on Monday announced the start of production from the Satellite Cluster gas field, in block KG-D6, ahead of schedule. The second of the three deep-water gas developments, planned jointly, was expected to start production in mid-2021.

RIL and BP have been developing R Cluster, Satellite Cluster and MJ in the KG-D6 block — which together are expected to produce around 30 mmscmd (1 billion cubic feet a day) of natural gas by 2023. It will meet up to 15 per cent of the country’s gas de­mand, said RIL in its ex­change filing on Monday.

Despite Covid-19 challe­nges, the Satellite Cluster field has come onstream two months ahead of schedule, it said. The field is located about 60 km from the existing on­shore terminal at Kakinada on the East Coast in water depths of up to 1,850 metres.