Mumbai, May 22 -- In the ongoing KG-Basin gas migration dispute, Canada's Niko Resources has told the Supreme Court that state-run Oil and Natural Gas Corp. Ltd (ONGC) did not adequately develop its adjacent gas fields and is wrongly alleging "theft" of gas from the block operated by the Reliance-led consortium.

The case is part of a long-running legal battle over alleged gas migration in the KG-D6 basin, which was operated by a consortium led by Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL).

On the fourth straight day of hearing before a three-judge bench led by chief justice of India Surya Kant, Niko Resources argued that the directorate general of hydrocarbons (DGH) had all the reservoir data, but did not act in time. Niko's counsel Kapil Sibal said...