RIL invites bids for 'D6' field related facilities
Reliance Industries Ltd has called for bids from contractors for material and services to build the onshore terminal and related facilities for its giant 'D6' deep-sea gas fields in Bay of Bengal.
By PTI |
NEW DELHI: Reliance Industries Ltd has called for bids from contractors for material and services to build the onshore terminal and related facilities for its giant 'D6' deep-sea gas fields in Bay of Bengal.
Reliance plans to build a receiving terminal at Gadimoga and Yanam near Kakinada in Andhra Pradesh to receive gas from the D6 fields from June 2008, industry sources said.
The company has called bids for a host of contracts related to the onshore terminal, construction jetty, rural water supply and other infrastructure.
The contracts include supply of steel, concrete, piling work, erection of plant and machinery, the hire or sale of compressors and safety equipments.
The first phase of the $3.3 billion D6 project includes an all-subsea exploitation of the D1 and D3 fields, from which a combined peak output of 1.4 billion cubic feet of gas is being targeted.
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Sources said production start-up from the delayed project is now scheduled for June 2008 but this date could slip given that Reliance has only just invited bids for contracts such as the piling work, despite earlier saying that the onshore site would be ready for installation to begin in June or July.The onshore gas plant near Gadimoga village about 30-km south of Kakinada, which will receive pipeline gas from the D6 fields, will include pig receivers, slug catchers, a gas dehydration system and MEG storage and continuous injection via dedicated dual six-inch pipelines. The plant will process the gas to sales specification.
Reliance holds 90 per cent stake in Block D6 (KG-DWN-98/3) while Niko Resources of Canada has the remaining 10 per cent.
Reliance Industries has claimed 14 trillion cubic feet of gas reserves in D6 but independent assessor DeGolyer and MacNaughton (D&M) put proven, probable and possible reserves at 9.7 Tcf.
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Ultimate output from the D6 gas fields could reach 3.5 Bcfd of gas, sources said.Earlier, gas production day was delayed by one year to June 2008 as permission from the government for laying a gas pipeline from Kakinada to Ahmedabad in Gujarat was slow to come.
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