RIL gas sales go up

Reliance Industries’ gas sales from its eastern offshore fields have risen to 35 million cubic metres a day, the highest since the nation’s most prolific fields started producing in April. RIL now has the capacity to produce 60 mmscmd but is constrained to produce less as the government is yet to identify customers beyond the initial 40 mmscmd that had been allocated primarily to fertiliser and power producers in accordance with the Gas Utilisation Policy.

Sources said from among the customers identified by the govt, Ratnagiri Gas and Power, the firm that operates the Dabhol plant, and state-run NTPC are yet to draw even a unit from the K-G basin D6 block.