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Dhabol-Bangalore gas pipeline cleared

BANGALORE: The Board of Directors of GAIL on Tuesday gave in-principle approval for laying of the Dabhol-Bangalore gas pipeline. At its Board and Strategy review meeting held in Bangalore, the company management gave the go ahead for further time bound action and finalisation of the project execution plans.

Depending on the source and customer tie-up, the 30-inch 730-km pipeline would be designed to carry 16 MMSCD of gas and would need an investment of approximately Rs. 2,500 crore, according to a release from GAIL.

The route of the proposed pipeline is from R-LNG Terminal of Ratnagiri Gas and Power Private Ltd. (RGPPL) at Dabhol in Maharashtra to Bangalore via Ratnagiri and Kolhapur districts in Maharashtra; Belgaum, Dharwad, Haveri, Davangere, Chitradurga, Tumkur and Bangalore districts in Karnataka. With this pipeline, natural gas from R-LNG Terminal can be supplied to industrial clusters in Maharashtra and Karnataka.

The Dabhol-Bangalore pipeline is among the five new pipelines for which GAIL has received authorisation in the first quarter of 2007. The other pipelines for which approval has been granted are: Dadri-Bawana-Nangal, Chainsa-Gurgaon-Jhajjhar-Hissar, Jagdishpur-Haldia and Kochi-Kanjirkkod-Bangalore/Mangalore.

GAIL will be laying three pipelines (within the existing ROU) to augment the capacities of Dahej-Vijaipur pipeline, Vijaipur-Dadri pipeline, Vijaipur-Auraiya-Jagdishpur pipeline. The carrying capacity of these three pipelines shall be 74 MMSCMD.

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