The already heated up RIL-RNRL gas dispute is likely to have five new stakeholders in the claim. Five more power plants have joined the fray for getting natural gas from RIL's KG-D6 fields and have even demanded a minimum allocation of 4.73 million cubic meters a day.
Among these new players, two power plants each in Delhi and Andhra Pradesh and one in Gujarat have demanded gas even before commissioning in the fiscal.
With a current production of 36 mmscmd gas from KG-D6, RIL supplies 18 mmscmd of gas to power plants. The total capacity to produce stands at 60 mmscmd but is hurdled to produce less as the government has not yet identified customers for buying gas beyond the initial 40 mmscmd, allocated primarily to fertiliser and power producers on a priority basis in accordance with the Gas Utilisation Policy.
RIL is bounded by the government terms not to sell gas to these and other users including its own refineries, until allocation is approved by the Government.
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