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Reliance Industries Partners Consider Joining Arbitration In $1.55 Billion Gas Row

srijita
Last updated: 2016/11/09 at 5:11 AM
By srijita 4 Min Read
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Reliance Industries Partners Consider Joining Arbitration In $1.55 Billion Gas Row
New Delhi: Reliance Industries’ partners are considering joining the arbitration that the Mukesh Ambani-run firm is planning to initiate against the government for slapping a $1.55 billion demand for “unfairly enriching” by producing natural gas belonging to Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC).

Calgary-based Niko Resources Ltd, which holds a 10 per cent interest in Reliance Industries-operated KG-DWN-98/3 or KG-D6 block, said the partners believe they are “not liable for the amount claimed by the Government of India”.

In an emailed statement, it said it “is considering joining RIL in invoking the dispute resolution mechanism in the Production Sharing Contract (PSC)”.
The Oil Ministry had on November 3 issued a notice to Reliance Industries, Niko and the UK’s BP plc seeking $1.47 billion for producing in the seven years ended March 31, 2016 about 338.332 million British thermal unit of gas that had seeped or migrated from state-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corp’s (ONGC) blocks into adjoining KG-D6 in Bay of Bengal.

After deducting $71.71 million royalty paid on the gas produced and adding an interest at the rate of Libor plus 2 per cent, totalling $149.86 million, a total demand of $1.55 billion was made on Reliance Industries, BP and Niko.

Reliance Industries had on Friday stated that it “proposes to invoke the dispute resolution mechanism in the PSC and issue a Notice of Arbitration to the Government”.

“RIL remains convinced of being able to fully justify and vindicate its position that the government’s claim is not sustainable,” the company had said, adding that it has worked within the boundaries of the KG-D6 block awarded to it and has complied with all applicable regulations and provisions of the PSC.

“The claim of the government is based on misreading and misinterpretation of key elements of the PSC and is without precedent in the oil and gas industry, anywhere in the world,” it had said.

BP, which holds the remaining 30 per cent interest, said it is evaluating its options.

“BP believes that the action taken is neither in line with well-established global practices nor is it in line with the PSC. We are aligned and working with our partners to evaluate our options to achieve an effective resolution,” a BP India spokesperson said.

Originally, ONGC had sued Reliance Industries for producing gas that had migrated from its blocks KG-DWN-98/2 (KG-D5) and Godavari PML in the KG basin to adjoining KG-D6 block of RIL.

Under direction of the Delhi High Court, the government had appointed a one-man committee under retired Justice A P Shah to go into the issue. The panel in its report on August 29 felt that the government and not ONGC is entitled to compensation.

Subsequently, the ministry asked its upstream technical arm DGH to calculate the amount of compensation and a demand notice was slapped on Reliance Industries-BP-Niko.

“The committee has concluded that the contractor’s (Reliance Industries-BP-Niko) production of migrated gas and retention of ensuing benefits amounts to unjust enrichment, since the production sharing contract (PSC)… does not permit a contractor to produce and sell migrated gas,” the November 3 demand note said.

The ministry said it had accepted the Shah committee report and consequently “it has been decided by the government to claim restitution from the contractor of the block KG-DWN- 98/3 for the unjust benefit received and unfairly retained by them”.

[“source-ndtv”]

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