Govt seeks Rs 10,000 crore from RIL for unduly gaining from gas migration from ONGC's KG Basin

Zee Media Bureau

New Delhi: Government has slapped a fine of Rs 10,000 crore on Reliance Industries Limited for unduly gaining from gas migration from ONGC's KG Basin​.

ONGC, on May 15 had moved the Delhi High Court alleging that RIL may have drawn natural gas worth thousands of crores of rupees from its fields adjacent to the Mukesh Ambani-run firm's KG-D6 block in the Krishna Godavari basin.

ONGC believes its Godavari Block (known as G-4) and New Exploration Licensing Policy (NELP-1) discovery block KG-DWN-98/2 are contiguous to RIL-operated NELP-1 Block KG-DWN-98/3 (KG-D6).

It believes the KT-1/D-1 gas find in block KG-DWN-98/2 and G-4 Pliocene gas find in Godavari Block extend outside the block boundaries into KG-D6.

According to ONGC, RIL's D6-A5, D6-A9 and D6-A13 wells drilled close to the block boundary may be draining gas from the G-4 field while the D6-B8 well may be draining gas from DWN-D-1 field of KG-DWN-98/2 block.

RIL denies ONGC claims and says seismic data alone is not enough to establish the possibility of channel extension, sand continuity as well as the connectivity.