Dabhol-Bangalore Pipeline

·         On January 15, 2008 board of state-run GAIL India gave an in-principle approval for laying a Rs 2,500- crore gas pipeline from Dabhol in Maharashtra to Bangalore.

·         Depending on the source and customer tie-up, the 30-inch, 730-km Dabhol-Bangalore gas pipeline will be designed to carry 16 million standard cubic meters per day of gas.

·         The route of the proposed pipeline is from LNG terminal of Ratnagiri Gas and Power Pvt Ltd (RGPPL) at Dabhol up to Bangalore.

·         The pipeline will pass through Ratnagiri and Kolhapur districts of Maharashtra and Belgaum, Dharwad, Haveri, Davangere, Chitradurga, Tumkur and Bangalore districts of Karnataka.

·         With this pipeline, natural gas from RGPPLs LNG Terminal can be supplied to industrial clusters in the state of Maharashtra and Karnataka

·         The Dabhol-Bangalore pipeline is among the five new pipelines for which GAIL has already received authorisation in the first quarter of 2007.

·         The other pipelines for which approval has been granted are:

o        Dadri-Bawana-Nangal pipeline,

o        Chainsa-Gurgaon-Jhajjhar-Hissar pipeline,

o        Jagdishpur-Haldia pipeline and

o        Kochi-Kanjirkkod-Bangalore / Mangalore pipeline.

·         In addition to these, GAIL will be laying three pipelines (within the existing ROU) to augment the capacities of :

o        Dahej-Vijaipur pipeline,

o        Vijaipur-Dadri pipeline,

o        Vijaipur-Auraiya -Jagdishpur pipeline.

·         The carrying capacity of these three pipelines shall be 74 mmscmd.

·         When all these pipelines are commissioned by 2011-12, the total length of GAILs pipelines would be over 12,000 km and the capacity is expected to increase from 148 mmscmd at present to around 300 mmscmd.