Royal Dutch Shell said it was in talks with India's Reliance about taking a stake in that company's D6 block in the Krishna Godavari basin off India's east coast.

'They've been remarkably successful in the development of the block so far and I think the growth of the Indian gas market is obviously going to be important for the future,' Malcolm Brinded, Shell's head of exploration and production, said.

He was speaking on the sidelines of the International Oil Summit in Paris.-Reuters