MUMBAI: Reliance Industries started commercial production from its coal bed methane (CBM) block at Sohagpur in Madhya Pradesh and aims to scale up output to emerge as one of the largest producers of unconventional natural gas in India, the company said on Friday. RIL 's block, SP(West) -CBM-2001/1, started production on March 24 and is currently supplying CBM for the commissioning of the Shahdol-Phulpur pipeline. RIL has drilled more than 200 wells connected to two gas gathering stations in the first phase of development. It plans to drill 600-800 wells more and develop associated infrastructure over the next phases of development. Reliance Gas Pipelines , a subsidiary of RIL, has laid the 302-km Shahdol-Phulpur gas pipeline that connects Sohagpur CBM fields from Shahdol to the Hazira-Vijaipur-Jagdishpur pipeline network of staterun gas transporter GAIL at Phulpur.With this new pipeline network, these CBM gas fields are now connected with the Indian gas grid, the company said in a media release.

Source: Economic Times April 21, 2017 18:33 UTC