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RIL's e-auction mechanism for new KG-D6 gas; bidding likely on Oct 11

This discovered price would, however, be capped by a ceiling set by the government every six months for gas produced from difficult fields

This discovered price would, however, be capped by a ceiling set by the government every six months for gas produced from difficult fields
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This discovered price would, however, be capped by a ceiling set by the government every six months for gas produced from difficult fields

Jyoti Mukul New Delhi
Thirteen years after it first undertook a price discovery exercise for natural gas, Reliance Industries, along with UK partner BP, will be selling 5 mscmd (million standard cubic metres a day) from its R-cluster field in the Krishna-Godavari (KG) basin through an e-auction mechanism.

This discovered price would, however, be capped by a ceiling set by the government every six months for gas produced from difficult fields.

The base price would be 9 per cent of the average Brent price for three months preceding the delivery date. “We chose this base price because imported LNG (liquefied natural gas) from Qatar