Reliance’s All-New Floating Production System Faces Collision, No One Injured

A brand new floating production system from Reliance Industries Ltd was involved in a minor collision with a barge off the east coast, but no one was injured and project work was not affected, the company said. society.

The Ruby floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel for deepwater MJ gas condensate development in block KG-D6 in the Bay of Bengal, was involved in a collision with an accommodating barge, causing minor damage to the vessel.

“Due to inclement weather, the gangway of the Nor Goliath accommodation barge was lifted and came into contact with the FPSO stairway, causing minor damage to the stairway,” a spokesperson for the company said. society.

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Quickly, Nor Goliath, the spokesperson said, moved away with the catwalk. The gateway has been secured on Nor Goliath and inspected.

“Furthermore, there were no injuries and there is no impact on the overall project schedule and commissioning,” the spokesperson added.

The FPSO is a giant vessel that not only has machinery to help produce oil and gas below the surface of the sea, but also living quarters and work stations. Walkway is an elevated platform or walkway providing passage.

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MJ is the third and final in a series of discoveries that Reliance and its partner BP are developing in the eastern offshore block. The two companies will use a deep-sea floating production system in the Bay of Bengal to bring the deepest gas find in Block KG-D6 into production.

The FPSO Ruby vessel was built by Samsung Heavy Industries of South Korea, with the engineering, procurement, construction and installation contract awarded in 2019. The double-hulled vessel has a crude production capacity of 60,000 barrels per day and approximately 12.7 million cubic meters per day. gas.

She left South Korea a few weeks ago and was at Kakinada anchorage in Andhra Pradesh when her stern struck and damaged Nor Goliath’s gangway.

Ruby suffered minor damage but Nor Goliath’s gateway was damaged. The walkway will need to be repaired.

Reliance Chairman and Managing Director Mukesh Ambani previously said the MJ field is expected to be commissioned by the end of this year, helping the KG-D6 block it sits in increase its “contribution to nearly 30% of India’s gas production”. .

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The two partners are spending approximately $5 billion on three separate development projects in Block KG-D6 – R-Cluster, Satellite Cluster and MJ – which together are expected to produce approximately 30 million standard cubic meters of natural gas per day from here 2023. .

R-Cluster started production in December 2020 and the Satellite Cluster went live in April last year. MJ is expected to enter service before the end of the year. While the R-Cluster has a plateau gas production of approximately 12.9 mmscmd, the Satellite Cluster will have a peak production of 6 mmscmd.

Combined gas production from R-Cluster and Satellite Cluster was more than 19 bcmd from April to June, according to Reliance.

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Reliance has so far made 19 gas discoveries in block KG-D6. Of these, D-1 and D-3 – the two largest – went on production in April 2009, and MA, the only oilfield in the block, went on production in September 2008.

While the MA field ceased production in 2019, production of D-1 and D-3 ceased in February 2020. Other discoveries have been abandoned or withdrawn by the government for failing to meet production start-up deadlines. the production.

The MJ reservoirs are approximately 2,000 meters below the D1-D3 gas fields.

Reliance holds a 66.67% operating stake in KG-D6, with BP holding the remaining 33.33%.