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Reliance Industries Limited RIL and its partners BP and NIKO on Friday announced a significant gas and condensate discovery in the KG-D6 block off the eastern coast of India.
RIL is the operator of KG-D6 with 60 per cent equity,BP has a 30 per cent share and NIKO the remaining 10 per cent. 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, RIL said in a statement.
RIL said 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 and liquid rate of 2,121 barrels a day with a choke of 36/64 with a flowing bottom hole pressure of 8,461 psia suggesting good flow potential. Well flow rates during such tests are limited by the rig and well test equipment configuration. The discovery,named D-55,has been notified to the government and the management committee of the block. Appraisal will now commence to better define the scale and quality of the field,RIL said.
PMS Prasad,executive director,Reliance Industries,stated: This is a successful outcome of the combined exploration efforts of the Joint Venture partners with the active support of the GoI. We shall embark on the appraisal program in the next few months in order to evaluate the options for developing this discovery.
Mike Daly,executive vice president,exploration at BP,said: The discovery demonstrates the effective technical co-operation between the partners8230; It follows an 18 month drilling time-out and detailed geoscience work that has re-focused our India exploration programme.
