Narendra Modi's pet firm ready Gujarat State Petroleum Corporation to produce gas.

The first major project to be commissioned after Narendra Modi takes over as Prime Minister may be one by his pet Gujarat firm GSPC, which is ready to produce gas from a field in the Krishna Godavari basin.

Gujarat State Petroleum Corp (GSPC) has completed the $ 2 billion development of the Deen Dayal shallow-water gas field and is conducting pre-commissioning and testing activities.

Gas production is likely to start in June, sources privy to the development said.

Gujarat government-owned GSPC, which faced several technical difficulties in developing the field in the Bay of Bengal, is keeping the commissioning date under wraps.

However, sources said most facilities - both offshore as well as the onshore receipt and processing plant - are ready and first gas is expected in June, by when the gas pricing issue would have been sorted out.

ET