RIL & BP commence production from third deepwater field in India’s KG D6 block

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Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) and BP Plc today commenced gas and condensate production from the MJ field, following testing and commissioning activities, the companies said in a regulatory filing. RIL is the operator of the KG D6 block with a 66.67% participating interest and bp holds a 33.33% participating interest. The MJ field represents the last of three major new deepwater developments the RIL-BP consortium have brought into production in block KG D6 off the east coast of India.

The start of gas and condensate production from the MJ field follows the start-up of the R-Cluster field in December 2020 and Satellite Cluster in April 2021. All three developments utilise the existing hub infrastructure for the block. Together, the three fields are expected to produce around 30 million standard cubic metres of gas a day (1 billion cubic feet a day) when the MJ field reaches peak production.

This is expected to account for around one third of India’s current domestic gas production and meet approximately 15% of India’s demand. Mukesh Ambani, Chairman and Managing Director of Reliance Industries Limited, said: “We continue to be proud of our partnership with bp that combines our expertise in commissioning complex projects under some of the most challenging environments in the last few years." Discovered in 2013 and sanctioned in 2019, the MJ field is located in water depths of up to 1,200 metres about 30 kilometres from the existing onshore terminal at Gadimoga on the east coast of India. MJ is a high Pressure and high Temperature (HPHT), gas & condensate field.