RIL, BP submit revised plan for KG-D6
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With output at the D6 block in the Krishna-Godavari basin hitting an all-time low, Reliance Industries and its British partner BP have submitted to the government a revised field development plan for enhancing the production of gas from the MA field in the block.
The partners propose to drill one gas production well on the MA oilfield in the eastern offshore KG-DWN-98/3 or KG-D6 block besides intervention jobs in at least two of the existing six wells on the fields, sources privy to the development said.
MA is the only oil find made by Reliance in the 7,645 sq. km KG-D6 block. The MA field makes up for about one-fifth of the 34.09 million metric cubic metres per day (mmcmd) of current gas output from KG-D6 block.
Sources said six wells had been drilled on MA field, of which one had to be closed because of water loading and sand ingress. RIL-BP plan to do a workover (intervention activity involving invasive techniques to raise output) on the closed well and at least one more well facing similar problems.
This, together with a seventh well, which would only produce gas unlike the current five wells that produce both oil and gas, would help the field raise its output to 8 mmcmd. The MA field had begun oil production in September 2008 and gas in April 2009, and in 2010 had averaged 8 mmcmd of gas output. Sources said the revised field development plan for the MA field was submitted to the Directorate General of Hydrocarbons (DGH) in February and RIL-BP have made technical presentation.