Indian private-sector giant Reliance Industries and UK supermajor BP have begun commissioning activities at a flagship deep-water asset in the Krishna Godavari basin offshore India’s east coast.
Reliance has started testing the floating production, storage and offloading vessel and other subsea structures at the MJ gas in field in the KG-D6 block, with “commissioning activities” under way, according to its latest quarterly results.
“As an essential part of the testing, one well has been opened to flow gas through the integrated production system,” it said
Reliance noted that the incremental gas production from the MJ field, along with ongoing production from R Cluster and Satellite Cluster
Reliance said that the “lower and upper completion campaign” for the MJ wells is progressing as planned Four wells have been completed, with “balance wells” expected to be completed by the third quarter of the 2023-2024 financial year, it added. The ceiling price applicable for gas produced from KG-D6 has been revised to $12.12 per million British thermal units for the first half of the financial year, it stated.
The operator earlier said that the Ruby FPSO had arrived at the MJ field last year. Reliance and BP had previously hoped to commission the MJ field by the end of last year, but were delayed by a few months due to an accident involving the FPSO, and bad weather.
Upstream reported in October that the Ruby FPSO was involved in a collision with an accommodation barge, causing minor damage to the floater.
