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Business News/ Industry / Energy/  ONGC-Reliance gas dispute: Govt sets one-month deadline
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ONGC-Reliance gas dispute: Govt sets one-month deadline

Govt panel backs findings by an outside consultant that studied how some gas produced from Reliance KG-D6 block had come from ONGC's adjacent gas field

The govt set up in December a one-member panel headed by Ajit Prakash Shah, a former chief justice of Delhi high court, to determine whether ONGC should be compensated, and by how much.Premium
The govt set up in December a one-member panel headed by Ajit Prakash Shah, a former chief justice of Delhi high court, to determine whether ONGC should be compensated, and by how much.

Mumbai/New Delhi: The government has set a one-month deadline to begin implementing steps to resolve a dispute over natural gas that migrated from Oil & Natural Corp.’s offshore block in the Bay of Bengal to the adjoining assets of Reliance Industries Ltd.

Oil minister Dharmendra Pradhan said on Wednesday that a government panel has endorsed findings by an outside consultant that studied how some gas produced from Reliance’s KG-D6 block had come from ONGC’s adjacent KG-DWN-98/2 block in the Krishna-Godavari basin off India’s east coast.

Reliance and ONGC didn’t respond to e-mails and phone calls seeking comment.

The government set up in December a one-member panel headed by Ajit Prakash Shah, a former chief justice of Delhi high court, to determine whether ONGC should be compensated, and by how much. He was asked to examine an independent study done by DeGolyer & MacNaughton, a petroleum industry consultant, on the reservoirs in exploration blocks held by ONGC and Reliance Industries.

“Justice Shah has given a comprehensive report, everything is there in the report," Pradhan said. Shah “looked into the economic and legal implications of gas migration."

The report suggests a future course of action, Shah told reporters at a briefing with the minister on Wednesday, declining to provide details.

ONGC, the country’s biggest producer, sued Reliance Industries in May 2015, claiming the company had drawn a “substantial" volume of natural gas from the block. Production from Reliance’s KG-D6 block has slumped to about 8.7 million cubic meters a day from more than 60 million in 2010.

Reliance says the reservoir has proved to be more difficult that it had expected. Bloomberg

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Published: 31 Aug 2016, 06:37 PM IST
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