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Article: Life on the KG Basin ; On board RIL's oil & gas exploration ship in the Krishna-Godavari Basin, Suman Layak returns impressed by the infrastructure and the company's production plans.
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- April 5, 2009
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February 27, 2009
Krishna-Godavari Basin,
Deepwater Exploration Block D6
It was 12 noon and I was thinking petroleum crude and lean gas in
million metric British thermal units, hardly expecting to encounter
white-skinned sunbathers especially in the middle of the Bay of
Bengal where the waves can be as high as six metres.
Now before you imagine bikinis, let me clarify that these were
men sunbathing on the helipad of a ship. The ship is in the Bay of
Bengal to build the last parts of the platform that will collect the
gas out of the first few wells of the D6 block in the Krishna-
Godavari Basin of Reliance Industries Ltd. (RIL) and send it
landwards. If you came here earlier in the day, you ...