July 28, 2010: Reliance Industries (RIL) is set to drill two more wells in the KG-D6 block that may boost gas production from the field where output has stagnated since April at about 60 million metric standard cubic meters per day (mmscmd). "The government has approved RIL's proposal to drill two more wells as part of D1 and D3 field-development plan," an official in the Directorate General of Hydrocarbon (DGH) said. The directorate, a technical arm of the oil ministry, is the custodian of the country's oil and gas assets. Experts in the oil ministry said that the two wells (A21 and B16) may help RIL increase gas production from the field and sustain the higher production. RIL has been producing crude oil and gas from D26 (also known as MA) field since September 2008. But major gas field, D1 and D3 commenced commercial production on April 2, 2009. The company managed to ramp up gas production from KG-D6 to 60 mmscmd in just nine months, but output is stuck at that level. RIL is, however, hopeful of achieving the peak production of 80 mmscmd by 2012, an oil ministry official said. Source: The Economic Times