The Hindu : Business : Anil Ambani co. to enter city gas

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Anil Ambani co. to enter city gas

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Reliance Fuel re-applies for licences in NCR townships

To source fuel from RIL’s KG basin gas fields
GAIL subsidiaries are already operating in CNG

NEW DELHI: The Anil Ambani led Reliance Fuel Resources Limited is all set to enter the city gas distribution for households and Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) for transportation in the National Capital Region (NCR) and Mumbai city.

The group has re-applied for licences to set up city gas distribution (CGD) projects in NCR townships and Mumbai. It has filed three applications with the Petroleum and Natural Gas Regulatory Board for licences to sell CNG to automobiles and piped gas to households in Mumbai, Delhi, Gurgaon, Faridabad, Ghaziabad and Noida. It has citied KG basin gas fields of Reliance Industries as a source of fuel.

The company has also submitted that a large portion of the gas transported by the proposed pipeline will be utilised by the 7,480-MW gas based power project proposed near Dadri in Uttar Pradesh. The company had last year applied for piped natural gas (PNG) and pipeline approvals. The 1,594-km pipeline would have a capacity of 50 million standard cubic metres a day (mscmd), 60 per cent of which would be used for the Dadri power plant.

The company also filed a sep arate application seeking permission to build a Rs. 16,000-crore gas pipeline from Kakinada in Andhra Pradesh to Dadri in Uttar Pradesh.

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