LONDON (dpa-AFX) - Vedanta Resources Plc (VED.L) reported Monday that its second quarter oil and gas average gross production was at 196,399 barrels of oil equivalent per day or boepd, down 4 percent from 205,361 boepd last year.
Sequentially, production was stable as a strong performance by Mangala EOR helped maintain production from Rajasthan.
Zinc India's total refined Zinc production fell 29 percent. Total silver production was down 4 percent.
Mined metal production was down 20 percent from last year, but grew 51% sequentially, in line with the mine plans.
Zinc International's total production, excluding production from Lisheen, was up 20% from last year. Production including Lisheen was at 39,000 tonnes, down 38 percent.
Iron ore sales climbed 25 percent on Goa sales, while sales from Karnataka fell 27 percent.
Tom Albanese, Chief Executive Officer, said, 'We have delivered a strong operational performance during the quarter. We have progressed on our ramp-up of aluminium and though we had some operational challenges, our full year volumes are not expected to be materially impacted. We achieved higher mined metal production at Zinc India and this upward trend is expected to continue in the second half.'
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