Billionaire Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries Ltd and its affiliates have picked up more than three-fourths of the new gas volumes from the firm’s eastern offshore KG-D6 block which at current government dictated price will cost it less than half of the imported rate, sources said.
Reliance and its partner UK’s BP Plc last week auctioned 5.5 million standard cubic meters per day of incremental gas from the newer discoveries in the KG-D6 block, benchmarking it to a gas marker.
Reliance’s oil-to-chemical (O2C) business unit picked up 3.2 mmscmd gas in the auction, three sources with direct knowledge of the development said.
India Gas Solutions (IGS) – a gas sourcing and marketing joint venture of Reliance and BP – picked up another 1 mmscmd, they said.
