RIL, BP, Niko Find Huge Gas Reservior in KG Basin

Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) and its partners BP and Niko have found huge gas and condensate reservoir in the KG Basin offshore India’s east coast.

The KGD6-MJ1 well was drilled in a water depth of 1,024 metres - and to a total depth of 4,509 metres - to explore the prospectivity of a Mesozoic Synrift Clastic reservoir lying over 2,000 metres below the already producing reservoirs in the D1-D3 gas fields.

Formation evaluation indicates a gross gas and condensate column in the well of about 155 metres in the Mesozoic reservoirs. In the drill stem test, the well flowed 30.6 million standard cubic feet per day (mmscf/d).

The discovery, named ‘D-55’, has been notified to the Government of India (GoI) and the Management Committee of the block, Reliance said in a statement.

This discovery is expected to add to the hydrocarbon resources in the KG D6 block. Appraisal will now commence to better define the scale and quality of the field.