Power ministry recommends KG gas for ADAG’s AP Unit
The power ministry has recommended allocation of natural gas from Reliance Industries’ KG D6 field to four power projects including Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group (ADAG) run Reliance Power’s Samalkot expansion unit in Andhra Pradesh.
The ministry, at the last meeting of Empowered Group of Minister on July 27, sought 14.5 million standard cubic meters per day of gas from RIL’s KG-D6 fields for the four projects totaling 4,136 MW.
The request was made on the grounds that these projects have most approvals and would be commissioned by March 31, 2012, sources in the know of the development said.
It recommended allocation of 8 mmscmd gas for the 2,400 MW expansion project planned by R-Power at Samalkot, saying the project had environmental clearance besides “land, water and all other infrastructure facilities.” Also, it has executed EPC contract on July 21, 2010.
The ministry sought 4.48 mmscmd gas for the 1,200 MW project Torrent Power is setting up at Dahej SEZ in Gujarat, 0.4 mmscmd for 100 MW unit of Pandurang Energy Systems at West Godavari District in Andhra Pradesh and 1.62 mmscmd for 436 MW plant of RVK Energy at East Godavari District, also in Andhra Pradesh.
All the four projects, according to the power ministry, would be commissioned during the current XIth Five Year Plan period (2007 to 2012).
Sources said the EGoM did not make any allocation to any plant as RIL had informed that it cannot produce more than 60 mmscmd gas from KG-D6. All of the current output of 60 mmscmd from KG-D6 has already been allocated to urea manufacturing units, power plants, LPG units, city gas projects, steel plants and refineries.
More gas from KG-D6 would flow when RIL completes drilling additional wells in the eastern offshore field.
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