Reliance Industries' eastern offshore KG-D6 gas fields have seen production plummet to the lowest level of 4.9 mmscmd in the third quarter of the ongoing fiscal.
Natural gas production from Dhirubhai-1 and 3 (D1&D3) gas fields as well as MA field totalled 4.9 million standard cubic meters per day (mmscmd), RIl said in an investor presentation post October-December quarterly earnings.
The output came from seven wells on D1&D3 fields and three wells on MA oil and gas field, the company said in the presentation, reasoning the fall to natural decline and ingress of water and sand in the wells. MA field also produced 2,042 barrels per day (bpd) of crude oil and condensate in October-December.
The production compared with 5.4 mmscmd of gas and 2,073 bpd of oil in the second quarter of the current fiscal and 7.5 mmscmd and 3,329 bpd oil in Q3 of the previous fiscal. Natural gas and oil production has been dropping every quarter.
RIl and its partner BP plc had in the April-June quarter of the current fiscal produced 6.4 mmscmd of gas, which was lower than 7.4 mmscmd in the preceding quarter. Natural gas production had totalling 11.4 mmscmd in the April-June quarter of the 2015-16 fiscal, which dropped to 9.7 mmscmd by the time the fiscal year ended on March 31, 2016.