Reliance Industries on Thursday announced investment of Rs 100,000 crore (Rs 10,000 billion) in core businesses of petrochem and oil and gas as well as in new sectors of retail and telecom, to double operating profits in four to five years.Addressing company shareholders, RIL Chairman and Managing Director Mukesh Ambani said new projects in petrochemicals and refinery business would come online in the next two to three years.
Investments in refinery downstream would add 30-40 per cent to margins while retail business would be a significant and profitable business for RIL within three years, he said.
He said 4G commercial rollout plans are being finalised even as the company bets big on shale gas production with output projected to grow ten times in five years from current 30
billion cubic feet.
"Even after this investment of Rs 100,000 crore, our balance sheet will be the strongest not only in India but in the world," he said.
Ambani said while the main natural gas reservoir in the eastern offshore KG-D6 has proved to be difficult to produce, the company is pinning hope on satellite fields in the area to ramp up output to 60 million standard cubic meters per day on a sustained basis.
"We currently finalising plans to offer nationwide digital services," he said.
He said India's current economic woes are temporary saying he had full confidence in the nation's economic resilience to overcome difficulties and emerge stronger.
