Exploration & Production (E&P) Business - Oil & Gas Industry | KG D6 | US Shale Gas | Liquefied Natural Gas | Hydraulic Fracturing

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Exploration & Production

Reliance is one of the largest exploration and production players in India having a balanced domestic conventional and unconventional hydrocarbon portfolio.

Portfolio Snapshot

RIL’s upstream business comprises the complete chain of activity starting from exploration, appraisal, development and production of hydrocarbons.

In 2002-2003, Reliance made a significant deep-sea discovery of gas reserves in the Krishna Godavari basin—the KG D6 Block.

Further discoveries in the KG D6 Block have bolstered India’s energy security, accelerated India’s transition towards a greener gas economy, and made us a pioneer in oil and gas exploration and production. The KG D6 fields are India's first deep-water fields. Oil production in KG D6 fields became the world’s fastest green-field deep-water oil development project.

Reliance and bp are bringing three more deep-water fields onto production, setting new global benchmarks for global costs. With water depths of >2,000m, the R Cluster field in KG D6 Block is the deepest offshore producing field in Asia and India’s first ultra deep-water field. R Cluster, Satellite Cluster, and MJ fields are together expected to produce 30 million metric standard cubic metres per day (MMSCMD) of gas by FY2024 and contribute ~30% of gas production in India.

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Partnering for Growth

Partnerships represent an important dimension of the E&P business. Reliance and BP entered into transformational partnership with focus on delivering growth and adding value to India’s energy sector. The partnership is a perfect blend of BP’s deepwater and development expertise with Reliance’s project management skills.

RIL and its partners work closely together and channelize expertise to target high quality prospects and optimise existing and future development plans.

In the upstream business, Reliance aspires to:

Bring no harm to people and environment, safety is paramount (Zero accidents, 100% compliance)

Be recognised as a "Partner of choice" for our stakeholders, building strong relationships which are of mutual advantage

Be India's top player across the gas value chain

Have best-in-class people, processes and technology

Operations

Conventional

In 2002, Reliance struck gas in the D1-D3 field of KG D6 block. These fields were put on production in 2009.

These were the first deep-water producing fields in India and remain among the most complex reservoirs in the world. The KG D6 facility is an engineering marvel of a kind, built with state-of-the-art technology. It has become a hub for further oil and gas infrastructure development on the East Coast. Since its inception, the block has supplied nearly 2.8 trillion cubic feet of natural gas and about 33 million barrels of crude oil to consumers in the country. This has substituted over US$40 billion of energy imports – saving precious foreign exchange for India.

Through its joint venture with bp, Reliance has put on production two more deep-water fields in the KG D6 Block – R Cluster and Satellite Cluster. In December, 2020, gas production was started from the R Cluster field. In April 2021, gas production was started from the Satellite Cluster field. A third field, MJ, commenced production in 1Q FY24.

Coal Bed Methane

Reliance has two coal bed methane (CBM) blocks in Madhya Pradesh spread across 995 square km. This is the largest surface footprint project in the E&P sector in India. Production from the CBM fields commenced in 2017. Currently, around 300 wells are on production.

Reliance’s subsidiary company, Reliance Gas Pipeline Limited, operates the 302 km Shahdol-Phulpur Pipeline from Shahdol (MP) to Phulpur (UP) connecting to India’s gas grid. With the development of CBM blocks, Reliance has become the largest player in the unconventional energy sector in India.

Fuelling India's growth

Ensuring energy security