Out Put from KG D-6 Basin

The Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas S. Jaipal Reddy informed in the Lok Sabha in a written reply that the details oil and gas production from the block KG-DWN-98/3 during the last three years and current year (Upto October, 2011) are given below:

He also said that Directorate General of Hydrocarbons (DGH) has reported that the reasons for decline in gas production from D1 & D3 fields in the block KG-DWN-98/3 is due to drilling of only 22 wells (18 gas producing wells and 4 wells drilled but not connected or put on production) as against the 31 producing wells approved for drilling upto March, 2012 as per the Field Development Plan (FDP). The Contractor has expressed inability to firm up appropriate drilling locations on plea of geological complexities. DGH has not agreed to the Contractor’s contention and asked the Contractor to comply with the approved FDP by drilling more number of gas producing wells in D1 & D3 gas fields and achieve the FDP approved gas Production Profile. The Contractor has neither drilled the remaining 9 producing wells nor taken any alternative action such as revisions of FDP for approval of Management Committee (MC) as per the provisions of the Production Sharing Contract (PSC).

In addition, he said five out of total 18 gas producing wells in D1 and D3 fields have ceased to produce gas due to water loading/sand ingress in the wells. One oil/gas producing well in MA field out of 6 oil/gas producing wells has ceased to produce oil/gas due to water loading in well.

Source : PIB