GAIL to build Dabhol-Bangalore gas pipeline

By IANS

New Delhi : State-owned gas marketer GAIL India Ltd will build a 730-km gas pipeline from Dabhol in Maharashtra to Bangalore in Karnataka at an investment of Rs.25 billion ($636 million), the company said Tuesday.


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“At a strategy review meeting held in Bangalore Jan 15, the company’s board of directors gave in-principle approval for laying of the Dabhol-Bangalore gas pipeline,” GAIL said in a statement issued Tuesday.

“The board will give its final approval for the project later,” GAIL said.

“The project shall be appraised and updated in respect of investment, customers identification, routing of the pipeline and freezing the design parameters before final investment approval by the GAIL board,” the company said.

“Depending on the source and customer tie-up, the 30-inch and 730 km Dabhol-Bangalore gas pipeline shall be designed to carry 16 million metric standard cubic metre per day (MMSCMD) of gas and will need an investment of approximately Rs.25 billion,” the statement said.

The route of the proposed pipeline is from LNG re-gasification (R-LNG) terminal of Ratnagiri Gas and Power Private Ltd (RGPPL) at Dabhol in Maharashtra up to Bangalore.

“The pipeline will pass through the Ratnagiri and Kolhapur districts of Maharashtra and Belgaum, Dharwad, Haveri, Davangere, Chitradurga, Tumkur and Bangalore districts of Karnataka,” the statement added.

“With this pipeline, natural gas from RGPPL’s R-LNG terminal can be supplied to industrial clusters in the state of Maharashtra and Karnataka,” GAIL said.

According to the statement, the Dabhol-Bangalore pipeline is among the five new pipelines for which GAIL has already received authorisation in the first quarter of 2007.

“The company envisages completing the project by 2011,” it added.

“The other pipelines for which approval has been granted are Dadri-Bawana-Nangal pipeline, Chainsa-Gurgaon-Jhajjhar-Hissar pipeline, Jagdishpur-Haldia pipeline and Kochi-Kanjirkkod-Bangalore-Mangalore pipeline,” the statement said.

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