Following testing and commissioning procedures, Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) and BP PLC announced the start of production from the MJ field on Friday.

The RIL-BP consortium's three significant new deepwater developments, including the MJ field, have all been produced in block KG D6 off the coast of India.

MJ is the third and the last set of discoveries in the KG-DWN-98/3 or KG-D6 block, off the east coast that the consortium was working on. All three sets of discoveries, with MJ being the deepest, were made more than a decade back and have been progressively put into production.

"The start of gas and condensate production from the MJ field follows the start-up of the R-Cluster field in December 2020 and Satellite Cluster in April 2021," it said.