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Reliance and bp start up second new deepwater gas field in India’s KG D6 block

Release date:
26 April 2021
  • Satellite Cluster field comes onstream two months ahead of schedule despite Covid-19 challenges
  • Second in trio of developments together expected to meet ~15% of India’s gas demand

Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) and bp today announced the start of production from the Satellite Cluster gas field in block KG D6 off the east coast of India.


RIL and bp have been developing three deep-water gas developments in block KG D6 – R Cluster, Satellite Cluster and MJ – which together are expected to produce around 30 mmscmd (1 billion cubic feet a day) of natural gas by 2023, meeting up to 15% of India’s gas demand. The developments will each utilize the existing hub infrastructure in the KG D6 block. RIL is the operator of the block with a 66.67% participating interest and bp holds a 33.33% participating interest.


The Satellite Cluster is the second of the three developments to come onstream, following the start-up of R Cluster in December 2020. It had originally been scheduled to start production in mid-2021. The field is located about 60 km from the existing onshore terminal at Kakinada on the east coast of India in water depths of up to 1850 meters.


The field will produce gas from four reservoirs utilizing a total of five wells and is expected to reach gas production of up to 6 mmscmd. Together, the R Cluster and Satellite Cluster are expected to contribute to about 20% of India’s current gas production.


The third KG D6 development, MJ, is expected to come onstream towards the latter half of 2022. 

Notes to editors:

Reliance Industries Limited (RIL):

RIL is India’s largest private sector company, with a consolidated turnover of INR 659,205 crore($87.1 billion), cash profit of INR 71,446 crore ($9.4 billion), and net profit of INR 39,880 crore($5.3 billion) for the year ended March 31, 2020.

 

RIL’s activities span hydrocarbon exploration and production, petroleum refining and marketing,petrochemicals, retail and digital services. RIL is the top-most ranked company from India tofeature in Fortune’s Global 500 list of ‘World’s Largest Companies’ – currently ranking 96th. Thecompany stands 71st in the ‘Forbes Global 2000’ rankings for 2019 – top-most among Indiancompanies. It ranks 10th among LinkedIn’s ‘The Best Companies to Work For In India’ (2019). 

bp in India:

With a century-long business presence in India, bp is one of the largest international energycompanies in the country. In addition to their gas value chain partnership, in 2020 bp and RIL alsocompleted the formation of their major retail, aviation fuels and mobility alliance. bp’s activities inIndia also include Castrol lubricants, oil and gas trading, clean energy projects throughLightsource bp, IT back office activities, a new global business services center, staffing andtraining for the global bp marine fleet, and the recruitment of skilled Indian employees for bp’sglobal businesses. 

Further Information:

bp press office, London: bppress@bp.com

bp press office, New Delhi: IndiaPressOffice@se1.bp.com

Reliance press office, Mumbai: +91 22 3555 5000 tushar.pania@ril.com