August 7, 2012. Reliance Industries' eastern offshore KG-D6 gas field has seen output drop to 29 million units a day, against a planned 80 million units, causing acute shortage in power generation, Oil Minister S Jaipal Reddy said. Reddy said Andhra Pradesh has been most hit as cut in gas supplies to gas-based power plants have added to the drop in electricity generation at hydel power plants due to drought and thermal plants due to coal shortage. Things have been made worse as the government has decided to cut gas supplies to fuel-starved power plants across the country so that requirement of one power station at Dabhol in Maharashtra is met to the full. The Oil Ministry had ordered RIL to use the dwindling KG-D6 gas field output to first meet full requirement of Dabhol power plant in Maharashtra and supply any remaining output among the 24 other power plants.