(ET)
Essar Steel and Gujarat State Petroleum Corporation (GSPC) won two-thirds of the natural gas Reliance Industries offered in an auction, where winning bids were $5.3-5.4 a unit, people familiar with the matter said. Reliance-BP offered 5 million metric standard cubic metres a day (mmscmd) it plans to produce from April next year at its R-cluster field in KG-D6 block. About half a dozen companies participated in the e-auction on Friday. Reliance did not respond to to ET’s emailed query.
Essar Steel is learnt to have won 2.25 mmscmd, while GSPC got 1.2 mmscmd. State-run Hindustan Petroleum is believed to have won 0.35 mmscmd, while Adani, Mahanagar Gas and GAIL won 0.3 mmscmd each, according to the people. Gujarat State Fertilizer Corp is also said to have won 0.10 mmscmd.
