Mumbai: Peak production from Reliance Industries Ltd’s (RIL’s) gas reserves in the Krishna-Godavari (KG) basin may hit 45-50 million standard cubic metres per day (mscmd) in the next five years, said two executives of the company familiar with the estimates.

To be sure, this is far lower than the earlier estimated peak output of 80 mscmd, but is much above the 13 mscmd that RIL is currently producing from the block.

NEW DELHI: Reliance Industries and its partners BP plc of UK and Canada's Niko Resources have slapped an arbitration notice on the government seeking implementation of a delayed gas-price rise.

The trio had on May 9 issued a "pre-arbitration notice" saying failure to implement the increase from due date of April 1 is preventing them from sanctioning investments of almost US$ 4 billion this year.

The Securities Appellate Tribunal (SAT) on Monday dismissed an appeal by Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) against stock market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) in a seven-year-old case.

The company had moved the tribunal after its application to settle charges of "illegal trading gains" through the consent mechanism was rejected by Sebi.

Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL), along with its partner British Petroleum (BP), plans to invest about Rs 800 crore to carry out exploratory drilling in an offshore block in the Bay of Bengal, off the Tamil Nadu coast. The Mukesh Ambani-led company is the operator of the offshore block CY-DWN-2001/2, also known as CY-III-D5, with 70 per cent equity, while BP holds the remaining stake. Thus, of the total Rs 800-crore investment, BP's contribution would be Rs 240 crore.

Mumbai: The top-five private companies by market capitalization added 578,804 employees in the year ended 31 March, the fewest in 3 years, as companies focused on improving productivity of its existing employees amid a slowdown in the economy.

Tata Consultancy Services Ltd (TCS), Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL), ITC Ltd, HDFC Bank Ltd and Infosys Ltd, saw their combined headcount rise 5% from the previous year, according to data collated from the annual reports of each of the companies.

The Securities Appellate Tribunal (SAT) on Thursday said it would deliver its order on an insider trading case involving Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) on Monday.

The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) has been probing charges of insider trading against RIL in a matter dating back to 2007. Allegedly, the company took positions in Reliance Petroleum on the back of price-sensitive information about its merger with RIL, making profits by trading on information not available to the public.

Sharp fall in stocks of Reliance Industries (RIL) and Oil & Natural Gas Corp (ONGC) pulled down the benchmark BSE Sensex further by 131 points in morning trade today.

The market will remain volatile today in view of the last day of futures & options (F&O) segment for June contract.

The government plans to impose an additional penalty of $578 million on Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) for producing less-than-targeted natural gas from its eastern offshore KG-D6 block.

The penalty in the form of disallowing costs incurred on the field would be for missing the target in 2013-14, a government source said. With this, the total costs disallowed will increase to $2.375 billion.

Markets extended gains and were trading near their day's highs led by index heavyweights ITC and Reliance Industries.

At 1:55 PM, the 30-share Sensex was up 25,411 up 380 points and the 50-share Nifty was up 96 points at 7,590.

Reliance Industries ltd is expected to invest Rs. 30,000 crore, of the total Rs. 70,000 crore announced, in its telecom arm Reliance Jio Infocomm over the next two years, credit rating firm Moody’s said on Monday.
The investment in the telecom business is a credit negative for RIL because RJio will not generate any EBITDA (an indicator of cash flows) for at least next 12 months, it said.

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