Reliance Industries [Get Quote] Chairman  Mukesh Ambani on Monday informed the government that gas  production from its KG D6 block will begin in December-end or early January, while its export-oriented refinery at Jamnagar  will start operations before the year-end.

Ambani met Petroleum Secretary R S Pandey and Additional Secretary S Sundaresan to brief about the company's business and talk on industry issues.

Ambani offered to sell diesel from his refineries if taxation issue was sorted out, Pandey said. Pandey said this was Ambani's courtesy call on him, the first since he was appointed as petroleum secretary.