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

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