Reliance cuts natural gas supplies to non-core users

NEW DELHI, May 5 (PTI): Falling in line with an oil ministry order, Reliance Industries today cut natural gas supplies to non-core users like refineries and steel plants so that full demand of fertiliser and power plants can be met. Reliance from 0600 hours today started implementing the ministry's priority allocation order which had asked it to first supply natural gas from its eastern offshore KG-D6 fields to priority sector like urea-making units and power plants. Supplies to non-core refineries, petrochemical units and sponge iron plants will be made only if there are any volumes left after supplies to priority sector. "Reliance this morning curtailed gas supplies to non-core users, including its own refineries and petrochemical plant," an industry official said.