GAIL completes route survey for Dabhol-Bengaluru pipeline
GAIL (India) Limited has completed the route survey for its 1400 Km Dabhol – Bengaluru gas pipeline project for supplying natural gas to Karnataka. This was informed to the Hon”ble Chief Minister of Karnataka Shri B S Yeddyurappa, Shri S V Rangnath, the Chief Secretary, Shri K. Jairaj, the Additional Chief Secretary, Energy and other senior officials of Government of Karnataka by Shri B C Tripathi, Chairman and Managing Director, GAIL (India) Limited, when he called on this morning. Mr. Tripathi also handed over a cheque for Rs. 2 crore for flood relief in Karnataka to the Hon”ble Chief Minister.
GAIL has completed the route survey of the total length of the pipeline network and the tendering process for line pipe procurement will start shortly. The High level clearance committee of the Karnataka Government has already accorded approval for the pipeline projects and the Government of Karnataka has nominated Karnataka State Industrial Investment Development Corporation (KSIIDC) as nodal agency for facilitating the acquisition of land for Dabhol- Bengaluru Pipeline project. GAIL has already applied for various crossing permissions for laying the pipeline and will set up a Regional Gas Management Centre at Bengaluru for distribution and supply of the gas business through this pipeline.
GAIL is currently implementing 1,389 km, 30 inch diameter Dabhol-Bengaluru pipeline at an investment of Rs. 4543.43 crore with a design capacity of 16 MMSCMD. In part A of the first phase, 402 km pipeline will be laid from Dabhol to Gokak along with spurlines to Belgaum and Goa at an estimated investment of Rs. 1593.47 crore and is scheduled to be completed by 2011-12.In part B of the phase I, 570 km pipeline will be laid from Gokak to Bengaluru (KPCL, Bidadi) along with spur lines / feeder lines to Bengaluru at an estimated investment of Rs. 2,463.91 crore and is scheduled to be completed by 2011-12 / 2012-13. In phase II of the project, 417 km spur lines / feeder lines will be laid to Ratnagiri, Kolhapur, Sangali, Bijapur, Dharwad, Devangere, Harihar and Tumkur at an estimated investment of Rs. 486.05 crore and is scheduled to be completed by 2012-13 / 2013-14.
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