October 07, 2008

GAIL awarded Oil & Gas Pipeline Transportation Company of the Year

GAIL India Limited recently announced that it has been adjudged the Oil & Gas Transportation Company of the Year 2006-07. Mr Murli Deora union minister of petroleum & natural gas presented the award to Dr UD Choubey CMD of GAIL.

GAIL owns and operates 6700 kilometer of natural gas transmission network which is over 82% of the total pipeline infrastructure in India. The extensive natural gas infrastructure established over the last 2 decades has enabled sustained development of sizeable gas market in India.

During the year 2006-07, GAIL handled around 28 billion cubic meter of natural gas through its transmission network and currently, its market share in gas transmission is 79%. The operating performance of the pipelines operated by GAIL has been excellent in 2006-07 and 100% availability of natural gas pipeline systems was maintained. It has robust future plans and a road map has been developed to increase pipeline infrastructure to 11000 kilometer by 2011-12.

In addition to gas pipeline network, GAIL owns and operates world's longest exclusive LPG Pipeline Jamnagar Loni pipeline (1269 km) and another one, Vizag-Secunderabad LPG pipeline (653 km). These pipelines have efficiently substituted rail/road transportation of LPG to a large extent in the respective areas and also resulted in reduction of emissions.

During the year 2006-07, GAIL added 4 new natural gas pipelines namely Dahej Uran Pipeline, Vijaipur Kota Pipeline, Kelaras Malanpur Pipeline and Jagoti Pithampur Pipeline to provide connectivity to consumers in various parts of India. In the current financial year, it has completed Dahej Dabhol pipeline project which has not only revived the Dabhol power project but also provided connectivity between key locations across Gujarat and Maharashtra.