Reliance gas output to peak by FY12/13: Oil secy

NEW DELHI: Reliance Industries will be able to ramp up natural gas output from its Krishna-Godavari deep-sea fields to peak capacity of 80 million metric standard cubic metres a day (mmscmd) in the fiscal year to March 2013, Oil Secretary S. Sundareshan said on Wednesday.

The company is currently pumping 55-60 mmscmd, Sundareshan said. Reliance Industries was initially expected to produce 80 mmscmd by the end of this year.