Reliance Industries says on track to produce gas from newer fields by mid-2020

NEW DELHI: Reliance IndustriesNSE 1.42 % Ltd has said that it is on track to start production from a new gas field in the flagging KG-D6 block in the Bay of Bengal from mid-2020 even as output from its existing fields continued to fall.

Reliance and its partner BP Plc of the UK had in June 2017 announced an investment of Rs 40,000 crore in the three sets of discoveries to reverse the flagging production in KG-D6 block.