India is scrambling to import natural gas on which it once hoped to be less dependent.

Seventeen years ago, Reliance Industries promised that its KG-D6KG-D6Krishna-Godavari Dhirubhai 6 is one of India's first deep-water gas fields block, located off the Andhra coast, would transform the country’s energy landscape and double domestic gas output. Instead, its production collapsed, forcing India to increasingly depend on imports from West Asia and other geographies.

Imported natural gas now accounts for more than half of the........

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