The Hindu Business Line : Reliance to scale up K-G basin production capacity

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Hyderabad Feb. 24 Reliance Industries Ltd is set to ramp up its gas production capacity from 40 to 80 million standard cubic metres per day at the Krishna-Godavari basin and expects to complete the deployment of deep sea exploration equipment and machinery for processing by March 2008.

Commercial production is slated for June 2008 and the back up pipeline to evacuate processed crude is being readied.

Alongside, the company expects its 1,400-km-long East West pipeline traversing the four States of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Maharashtra and Gujarat would be completed by the end of this year.

Pipeline projects

The company has called for expression of interest for other pipeline projects. It is also awaiting clearances for similar pipeline corridors in the South, which includes Kakinada-Chennai link (it received Government clearance recently), Chennai-Mangalore, Chennai-Hassan and more. Gas evacuated from KG basin will be shifted to Bharuch and thereafter to GAIL and GSPL pipelines.

The Managing Director of Reliance Gas Transportation Infrastructure Ltd, Mr R.K. Dhadda, said: "by the time RIL expands its capacity from 40 to 80 million standard cubic metres per day by 2009, it would account for about 42 per cent of the current estimate of domestic gas requirement. We expect to provide complete energy solution."

Mr Dhadda was speaking at a meeting on natural gas opportunities in Andhra Pradesh, organised by the AP Industrial Infrastructure Corporation.

The construction work for the processing unit at Gadimoga about 30 km south of Kakinada is at an advanced stage and all the sub sea installations have been ordered for and the fabrication in now underway.

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