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GAIL completes dedicated gas

pipeline to HMEL refinery

PIPELINES & STATE-OWNED GAIL (India) announced on importing LNG through regasification termi-
TRANSPORT May 21 that it had completed a dedicated gas nals. Other Petronet partners include Oil and
pipeline to the HMEL refinery in Bathinda and Natural Gas Corp. (ONGC), Indian Oil Corp.
that an inauguration ceremony had been held (IOC) and Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd
at the gas receiving station at the refinery. The (BPCL). The group imports LNG through the
pipeline is 44 km with a 12-inch (303-mm) Dahej and Kochi terminals, which have a capac-
diameter and has a capacity to transport 5mn ity of 17.5mn tonnes per year (tpy) and 5mn tpy
cubic metres per day, but initial supply to the respectively. GAIL has 30 master sale and pur- The spur
refinery will be 1 mcm per day. GAIL said the chase agreements (MSPAs) and its wholly owned
pipeline was completed at a cost of INR1.420bn subsidiary GAIL Global Singapore operates in line to HMEL
($18.3mn). LNG trading. It has 35 MSPAs with more than
The pipeline is a spur line running from 35 other parties. will increase
the 500-km Dadri-Bawana-Nangal Pipeline The government has recently asked GAIL to
(DBNPL), which is part of India’s national gas increase imports of LNG in order to cope with distribution
grid and runs through Uttar Pradesh, Haryana rising demand inside India. of gas to
and Punjab, distributing gas to major customers Meanwhile, GAIL has entered into a memo-
in northern India. The spur line to HMEL will randum of understanding (MoU) with Pipeline commercial and
increase distribution of gas to commercial and Infrastructure Ltd (PIL) on co-operation and
industrial firms in the region as well as house- collaboration to test the feasibility of hydrogen industrial firms in
holds and vehicles. as a source of energy. The two companies will
GAIL is India’s largest natural gas transport- explore various options in transportation using the region as well
ing and marketing firm. Its actions have made a an existing natural gas pipeline for transporta- as households
significant contribution to the distribution and tion and end use of hydrogen.
use of natural gas throughout India, operating a PIL is owned by India Infrastructure Trust, an and vehicles.
14,502-km gas pipeline network that extends to investment firm. It owns and operates a 48-inch
21 states with a capacity to transport 206 mcm (1,212-mm) diameter, 1,375-km gas pipeline
per day. running from Kakinada to Bharuch, which con-
GAIL partners with several other Indian nects major supply hubs in the east with areas of
firms in Petronet LNG, which was established demand in western India. It is India’s first bi-di-
by the Indian government for the purpose of rectional pipeline.™

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