December 02, 2008

GAIL commences gas supplies to Trombay

It is reported that GAIL India Limited natural gas supplies to Trombay region near Mumbai began recently through its Dahej-Uran pipeline. The 40 kilometer line to Trombay is one of the several spur links connecting GAIL's main Dahej-Uran and Dabhol-Panvel pipelines to consumers.

As per report, GAIL would be transporting gas from different supply sources such as Panna-Mukta and Tapti fields through DUPL and DPPL. Other gas supply sources include regassified-LNG from Dahej and Hazira terminals in Gujarat and Reliance Industries' eastern offshore gas. Dabhol LNG terminal will also be a source when it gets completed in 2010.

GAIL said the Dahej Uran pipeline has linked two important gas markets of Gujarat and Maharashtra. The pipeline would also supply gas to various cities falling on the pipeline route such as Vapi, Valsad and Navsari in Gujarat and Bhiwandi, Kalyan, Thane and Mahad in Maharashtra. It would also connect other consumers in and around Mumbai, which include Bombay Dyeing and Bhushan Steel.

The trunk line traversing from Dahej in Gujarat to Panvel in Raigad district for DUPL and from Panvel to Dabhol for DPPL project was commissioned in July 2007 for supplying gas to the Dabhol Power plant of Ratnagiri Gas and Power Private Ltd.