{"id":292167,"date":"2019-09-17T06:59:48","date_gmt":"2019-09-17T06:59:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=292167"},"modified":"2019-09-17T07:03:30","modified_gmt":"2019-09-17T07:03:30","slug":"reliance-bp-buy-out-niko-stake-in-kg-d6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/reliance-bp-buy-out-niko-stake-in-kg-d6\/","title":{"rendered":"Reliance, BP buy out Niko stake in KG-D6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reliance Industries and the UK\u2019s BP plc have taken over the 10 per cent shareholding of their partner Niko Resources in the eastern offshore KG-D6 block after the Canadian firm defaulted on paying for its share of gasfield development cost.<\/p>\n<p>Sources said the oil minister has given \u201cunconditional\u201d nod to Reliance and BP for taking over 10 per cent interest of Niko in KG-DWN-98\/3 or KG-D6 block in the Bay of Bengal.<\/p>\n<p>Reliance and BP split Niko\u2019s share in proportion to their existing shareholding in the block. <\/p>\n<p>Subsequent to this, Reliance\u2019s stake in KG-D6 has gone up to 66.67 per cent from the previous 60 per cent and that of BP to 33.33 per cent from 30 per cent, the sources said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reliance Industries and the UK\u2019s BP plc have taken over the 10 per cent shareholding of their partner Niko Resources in the eastern offshore KG-D6 block after the Canadian firm defaulted on paying for its share of gasfield development cost. Sources said the oil minister has given \u201cunconditional\u201d nod to Reliance and BP for taking over 10 per cent interest of Niko in KG-DWN-98\/3 or KG-D6 block in the Bay of Bengal. Reliance and BP split Niko\u2019s share in proportion to their existing shareholding in the block. Subsequent to this, Reliance\u2019s stake in KG-D6 has gone up to 66.67 per [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,215,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-292167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-telegraph","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}