NEW DELHI: Reliance Industries (RIL) has prima-facie not complied with one clause of the government’s coal bed methane (CBM) marketing policy because it sold the gas it produced to its own unit after participating in auctions, the oil ministry has found in its preliminary assessment.

RIL said it has abided by CBM pricing policy’s stated objective of discovering the best possible price that maximises state revenue and royalty, which was achieved by its participation in the transparent auctions conducted by CRISIL Officials say the policy allows sale of CBM to an affiliate only if another buyer is not found but RIL said it acted in line with the policy and has regularly informed the government about its actions.

Reliance Industries Ltd said on Tuesday that the company has issued the fifth tranche of privately placed debentures worth Rs 2,500 crore after the company proposed the same on Thursday last week. The issue size of Rs 2,500 crore contains

25,000 unsecured redeemable non-convertible debentures of face value Rs 10,00,000 each. The PPD — Series E shall be redeemed at par at the end of third year and 1 month from the date of allotment i.e. 14 December 2020.

Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries (RIL) is to increase its presence in the polyester space after the launch of its new brand, RElan, through which it will get into co-branding of apparel. The largest manufacturer of polyester in the country, it has an annual capacity of 2 million tonnes (mt), almost half the country’s 4.5 mt. The firm expects 5 per cent yearly growth in this segment. China, with 45 mt manufacturing capacity out of 70 mt globally, is much ahead of India.

For RElan, the new portfolio of speciality fabric, the firm has tied up with VF Corporation of America, owner of the world’s largest denim brand, Wrangler, to launch by the coming February the Inficool denim range. “We are in talks with at least five leading domestic and international apparel brands to co-brand with the RElan brand.

City-based equity crowdfunding platform OurCrowd has tied up with Reliance Industries, Reliance Private Client, Yes Bank and Let’s Venture to cash in on India’s burgeoning fintech ecosystem, OurCrowd chief executive officer Jon Medved said. “We think that India is highly under-invested and it’s going to be an explosive market over the next couple of decades,” Medved said. OurCrowd enables start-ups to connect with prospective investors and is currently distributing its products to high-networth clients of Reliance Private Client.

Reliance Industries Ltd said on Thursday that the company has proposed to offer non-convertible debentures worth Rs 2,500 crore on a private placement basis. “Pursuant to the authority given by the shareholders of the company at the Annual General Meeting held on 21 July 2017, it is proposed to make an offer for the issuance of non-convertible debentures (NCDs Series E) (5th Tranche) on private placement basis on Tuesday, 14 November 2017 aggregating Rs 2,500 crore, to be listed on the stock exchanges,” RIL said in an exchange filing.

Reliance Industries, the most valuable firm on the bourses, has become the first Indian company to cross the Rs 6-lakh crore market capitalisation on the closing basis.

On Wednesday, RIL settled the day at record high level of Rs 952, up 1.2% with a market cap of Rs 6.03-lakh crore. In intra-day trade, the stock hit a high of Rs 957 with a market cap of Rs 606,328 crore.

Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Industries and its partners, BP and Niko Resources, have so far paid only $82 million to the gas pool account — maintained to park the differential between the notified gas price given to others and the $4.2 per unit that the three contractors charge their customers.

The firms are yet to pay the penalty imposed on them for disallowing recovery of cost incurred for missing the target during six years from 2010. After a fresh penalty of Rs 264 million in August, the total now stands at $3.02 billion.

Reliance Industries and its partner BP plc of UK have submitted to the government a $2 -2.5 billion plan to bring to production India's deepest gas discovery by 2021-22.

The partners yesterday submitted to the Directorate General of Hydrocarbons (DGH) a field development plan (FDP) for the MJ-1 gas find, which is located about 2,000 meters directly below the currently producing Dhirubhai-1 and 3 (D1 and D3) fields in the eastern offshore KG-D6 block, sources with direct knowledge of the development said.

Reliance Industries (RIL) has had a dream run over the past one year, with its market value almost doubling and the firm leapfrogging 66 places in the league table of the world’s most valuable firms.

The Mukesh Ambani-led firm ranks 111, against last year’s 177, Bloomberg data show. Some of the global majors Reliance overtook include Nike, Starbucks, Vodafone and Volkswagen. It also surpassed TCS, which ranked 122 last year.

Reliance Industries shares hit an all-new lifetime high on Monday and were the biggest contributor in lifting the key benchmark indices to close higher. The market capitalisation of the Indian stock market leader Reliance Industries is just Rs 6,000 crore from hitting the figure of Rs 6 lakh crore. As per today’s close, it stood at Rs 5.94 lakh crore as per today’s close of Rs 938.1 on BSE while it was Rs 5.95 lakh crore. The stock of RIL hit a fresh all-time high today rising by 3.64% to Rs 943.45 before closing up 3.05% at Rs 938.1. In the intraday trade, its market capitalisation topped Rs 5.97 lakh crore on BSE.

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