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Reliance Industries Ltd is seeking a premium of at least USD 3.5 per barrel over an international benchmark for crude oil it produces for eastern offshore KG-D6 block, according to the tender the firm put out on Monday. Reliance and its partner BP of the UK sought bids from domestic refiners for sale of 17,600 barrels (2,800 kilolitres) of crude oil every month from April 2025 to February 2026. The crude oil has been priced at daily average price of Nigerian Bonny Light grade of crude oil plus USD 1.5 per barrel quality premium. Bidders have to quote a premium over this price, the tender document said. Bonny Light last traded for USD 73.5 per barrel. On top of this, USD 1.5 per barrel is added as a composite premium "reflecting quality differential", it said, adding that interested buyers are required to a "biddable premium, up to one decimal place and greater than USD 2 per barrel". The sale period can be extended by three months to one year on the same terms and conditions, ...
Global supermajor BP Plc's exclusivity with Reliance Industries Ltd has ended but the energy giant will continue to pursue oil and gas as well as mobility ventures in India with the Mukesh Ambani firm owing to an unwritten strategic partnership, BP's outgoing India head Sashi Mukundan said. BP in 2011 spent USD 7.2 billion to acquire 30 per cent interest in 23 oil and gas blocks of Reliance. Eastern offshore KG-D6 block was the cornerstone of the deal that also provided for a 10-year exclusivity period which meant that BP would take up energy projects or investments in India only in partnership with Reliance. The firm has so far invested more than USD 12 billion across the energy value chain including bringing on stream three new deepwater natural gas projects in KG-D6 that account for one-third of India's gas production. "We started working with Reliance as early as 2005 when first (the then BP CEO) Lord John Browne visited India," Mukundan said. It finally fructified in the 2011