Reliance Industries has reportedly shut its eighth well on the main gas fields in KG-D6 block, leading to output plummeting to all time low of 20.88 mmscmd.
Reports said that RIL shut the well B6 on the main producing fields of Dhiburbhai-1 and 3 (D1&D3) in Krishna Godavari basin KG-D6 block "due to water loading,".
The latest shutting led to the output slipping from D1&D3 to 16.98 million standard cubic meters per day during the week ended January 13, the report said.
The output has fallen from 22.04 mmscmd in December end, when D1&D3 produced 17.66 mmscmd and MA 4.38 mmscmd.