Reliance buys two-thirds of personal fuel from KG-D6; GAIL, Shell amongst different consumers

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Billionaire Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries has picked up two-thirds of its personal new fuel from KG-D6 block that was auctioned beneath new guidelines with state-owned GAIL and Royal Dutch Shell getting smaller volumes, sources mentioned.

Reliance and its companion UK’s BP Plc on Friday auctioned 7.5 million customary cubic metres per day of incremental fuel from the R-series fuel area within the KG-D6 block, benchmarking it to a fuel marker for the very first time within the nation.

The public sale was held beneath the liberalised worth discovery guidelines notified by the federal government that allowed associates of the fuel producer to bid and purchase pure fuel.

Reliance O2C, an affiliate of Reliance, picked up 4.8 mmscmd of fuel in Friday”s public sale that lasted for seven-and-a-half-hours, sources with direct data of the event mentioned.

State fuel utility GAIL (India) Ltd gained 0.85 mmscmd of provides whereas Shell picked up 0.7 mmscmd. Adani Total Gas Ltd acquired 0.1 mmscmd, Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd (HPCL) 0.2 mmscmd and Torrest Gas 0.02 mmscmd.

Other consumers embrace IRM Energy (0.1 mmscmd), PIL (0.35 mmscmd) and IGS (0.35 mmscmd), they mentioned.

Sources mentioned the fuel was purchased at a worth of USD 0.18 per million British thermal unit low cost to JKM i.e. worth of JKM (minus) USD 0.18 with tenures starting from 3 to five years.

Reliance didn’t reply to electronic mail despatched for feedback. Reliance O2C is the brand new unit that holds the agency’s refinery and petrochemical belongings.

E-bidding course of was performed by an internet web-based digital bidding platform by CRISIL Risk and Infrastructure Solutions Limited (CRIS), an unbiased company empanelled by Directorate General of Hydrocarbons (DGH). CRIS partnered with e-Procurement Technologies Limited (EPTL) and developed e-bidding platform.

The bidding course of was carried out as per the rules notified by the federal government in October 2020.

Sources mentioned the bidding course of on the market of fuel was launched on December 30, 2020 and it witnessed participation from round 15 bidders from metropolis fuel distribution sector, metal, energy, refineries, petrochemicals, resellers and different industries.

The e-bidding course of required bidders to submit their worth bids linked to worldwide LNG worth benchmark JKM (Japan Korea Marker). The JKM represents worth for spot LNG delivered in Asian market and is now being broadly utilized in LNG trade as a marker for in medium/ long run LNG contracts as an alternative of conventional linkage to grease.

This was second time Reliance-BP performed an e-bidding course of which ran on a dynamic ahead public sale foundation on the market of KG-D6 fuel. Earlier in November 2019, 5 mmscmd of pure fuel was bought at worth in vary of round 8.6 per cent of Brent crude oil for tenure starting from 2 to six years.

Reliance-BP began manufacturing of fuel on December 18 final 12 months from the R Cluster ultra-deep-water fuel area in block KG D6 off the east coast of India.

The duo growing three deep-water fuel tasks in block KG-D6 — R Cluster, Satellites Cluster and MJ — which collectively are anticipated to satisfy round 15 per cent of India’s fuel demand by 2023.

R Cluster is the primary of the three tasks to return onstream and is the deepest offshore fuel area in Asia.

E-bidding public sale guidelines requested bidders to “quote the variable denoted as ”V” in USD per million British thermal unit (MMBtu) terms.”

“The gas price (in USD/MMBtu (GCV)) shall be = JKM + V,” the bidding discover mentioned.

GCV stands for gross calorific worth.

”V” is usually a optimistic, zero or destructive quantity and as much as two decimal locations nevertheless it can’t be lower than (-)0.30 USD/MMBtu, it mentioned.

This means customers should quote -0.30 or increased worth of ”V”.

If JKM averaged USD 6 per MMBtu, the value might be USD 5.82 per MMBtu.

But Reliance-BP will solely get the federal government notified cap worth for fuel from deep-sea fields.

Pricing of fuel at JKM would be the first time that domestically produced fuel is being bought at charges linked to a world fuel benchmark, trade sources mentioned.

Also, this would be the first discovery of fuel worth for the reason that October 2020 resolution of the federal government setting out uniform e-bidding norms for locating the market worth.

That Cabinet resolution additionally allowed the sale of fuel to ”associates” and so whereas Reliance-BP affiliate corporations couldn”t take part within the November 2019 worth discovery, they did in e-bidding on February 5.

The authorities has given operators the liberty to find market costs however this price is topic to a pricing ceiling or cap that the federal government notifies each six months. The cap for six months to March 31, 2021, is USD 4.06 per mmBtu.

And accordingly, Reliance-BP would get solely that quantity for the fuel.

Essar Steel, Adani Group and state-owned GAIL in November 2019 purchased nearly all of the preliminary 5 mmscmd of fuel deliberate to be produced from R-Series within the KG-D6 block by bidding between 8.5 and eight.6 per cent of dated Brent worth.

In that bidding, Reliance-BP had requested fuel customers to cite a worth (expressed as a proportion of the dated Brent crude oil price), provide interval and the quantity of fuel required.

A flooring or minimal quote of 8.4 per cent of dated Brent worth was set, which meant that bidders needed to quote 8.4 per cent or a better proportion for securing fuel provides.

Dated Brent means the typical of printed Brent costs for 3 calendar months instantly previous the related contract month through which fuel provides are made.

Reliance acquired USD 4.205 per MMBtu for fuel from D1 and D3 and MA fields throughout April 2019 and March 2014. It would have gotten double of that price if a brand new components proposed by the Rangarajan committee was authorised however the brand new BJP authorities scrapped it and introduced a brand new components on pricing fuel at charges prevalent in export surplus nations such because the US and Russia.

The charges got here to USD 5.05 in 2014 and are at the moment at USD 1.79 per mmBtu.

Reliance-BP is investing USD 5 billion in bringing to manufacturing three deepwater fuel tasks in block KG-D6 R-Cluster, Satellites Cluster, and MJ which collectively are anticipated to satisfy about 15 per cent of India”s fuel demand by 2023.

R-Cluster can have a peak output of 12.9 mmscmd whereas satellites, that are supposed to start output from the third quarter of the 2021 calendar 12 months, would produce a most of seven mmscmd. MJ area will begin manufacturing within the third quarter of 2022 and can have a peak output of 12 mmscmd.

Reliance has to date made 19 fuel discoveries within the KG-D6 block. Of these, D-1 and D-3 — the biggest among the many lot — had been introduced into manufacturing from April 2009 and MA, the one oilfield within the block was put to manufacturing in September 2008.

While the MA area stopped producing final 12 months, output from D-1 and D-3 ceased in February.

Other discoveries have both been surrendered or taken away by the federal government for not assembly timelines for starting manufacturing. Reliance is the operator of the block with 66.6 per cent curiosity whereas BP holds the remaining stake.

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