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RIL may get nod for investing $1.5bn in 5-yr-old Cauvery find [1]

New Delhi: Reliance Industries (RIL) may this month win approval for $1.45-billion investment for developing a natural gas find it has made in a Cauvery basin block off the Tamil Nadu coast several years ago.

RIL had made the only discovery in the CY-DWN-2001/2 block in 2007 and had submitted a Declaration of Commerciality (DoC) for the find, which was named D-35, in March 2010 after it carried out drilling of an appraisal well. But the DoC, a pre-requisite for developing any discovery, was never approved by the Directorate General of Hydrocarbons (DGH) which said the find was not viable at $4.2 per million British thermal unit (mBtu) gas price.

Publication Date: 
06/05/2013
Times Of India (New Delhi) [2]
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Tamil Nadu [3], Natural Gas [4], Reliance Petrochemicals [5], Natural Gas Exploration [6], Fuel Pricing [7], Energy [8]
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