Reliance said in a communication to employees, cited by the Press Trust of India, it has "scrupulously followed every aspect of the production sharing contract and has confined its petroleum operations within the (boundaries of its) KG-D6 Block" in the Krishna Godavari basin.

All wells, it said, were drilled "strictly within the KG-D6 block boundaries, as per the development plan approved by the relevant authorities under the PSC".

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