Cairn India set to increase gas production by 2019

Firm sets aside $1-bn programme for five blocks, including the RDG project

The country's biggest private sector oil producer, Cairn India, which is a part of Anil Agarwal's Vedanta group, is set to considerably increase its gas production to three million standard cubic metres a day (105.9 million standard cubic ft) by June 2019.

Production from its Raageshwari Deep Gas (RDG) field is expected to increase to 100 million standard cubic ft a day (mscfd) by then. The firm's production capacity for the September quarter of FY18 stood at of 33.8 mscfd.

"We have started investing in a $1-billion programme. After the completion of the RDG Phase-I this month, gas production is