Reliance Industries, the country’s largest private sector company, is raising $2 billion through a 10-year overseas syndicated loan for funding its oil and gas exploration in the D6 block of the Krishna-Godawari basin.
The D6 was among the blocks awarded to a consortium of Reliance Industries (90 per cent) and NIKO (10 per cent) under the NELP I round of bidding. Currently, the JV is developing India’s first deep water gas production facility for the Dhirubhai 1 and 3 fields, targeting the first gas in the second half of 2008.
The $2 billion syndicated loan is arranged by a consortium of 14 banks including Citigroup, ABN-Amro, Standard Chartered, HSBC, ICICI Bank and DBS. The full commitment by banks for the loan is expected to be completed this week, said industry sources.
Read more inThe Business Standard article.
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