22 July 2009;economictimes.indiatimes.com:NEW DELHI: India's crude oil production rose by over four per cent in June, but refineries turned 3.7 per cent less crude oil into petroleum products. Crude production rose 4.1 per cent to 2.75 million tonnes despite a 3.5 per cent fall in output of Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC) to 2.02 million tonnes, according to the latest data released by the Petroleum Ministry here today. The higher output may be because of Reliance Industries beginning oil production from its Krishna Godavari basin MA oilfield. ONGC's 4.5 per cent drop in output dragged down total production during April-June by 1.3 per cent to 8.26 million tonnes. The output of the state-run firm fell to 6.12 million tonnes from 6.4 million tonnes as its prime Mumbai High produced 4.7 per cent less products at 4.25 million tonnes. Refineries converted 13.15 million tonnes of crude into products in June as opposed to 13.65 million tonnes in the year-ago period. Reliance Industries' old Jamnagar refinery processed 10.3 per cent less crude oil at 2.86 million tonnes. During April-June, refinery production was down 4.1 per cent to 38.38 million tonnes with Jamnagar seeing a 8.7 per cent drop to 8.59 million tonnes. Natural gas production was up 36.3 per cent to 3.58 billion cubic metres in June on back of output from RIL's KG-D6 fields. In April-June the output was up 19.5 per cent to 9.92 bcm.
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