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GAIL awards contract for 108 km of Barauni-Guwahati gas pipeline
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SME Times News Bureau | 17 Aug, 2018
GAIL (India) Limited has awarded the first contract for purchase of 108
km 24-inch diameter line pipes under the Barauni-Guwahati segment of the
Jagdishpur-Haldia and Bokaro-Dhamra Natural Gas Pipeline (JHBDPL)
project.
The contract for purchase of line pipes of 108 km was
awarded to M/s Ratnamani at a total cost of Rs 125 crore. Line pipe
procurement activities for the rest of the 600 km trunkline up to
Guwahati is at an advanced stage of tender process, a senior official of
the M/s Ratnamani said on Thursday.
The Barauni-Guwahati
pipeline section executed on a capital outlay of Rs 3,300 crore is an
integral part of the prestigious 3,405 km-long JHBDPL project, popularly
known as 'Pradhan Mantri Urja Ganga', executed by GAIL, and envisages
to connect eastern and north-eastern India to the existing natural gas
grid. This project is planned to cover eastern Uttar Pradesh, Bihar,
Jharkhand, West Bengal, Odisha and Assam.
GAIL officials said
that JHBDPL project is progressing in full swing and the first phase is
scheduled for completion by December 2018.
The project will
usher industrial development in eastern part of India by supplying
environmentally clean natural gas to fertilizer units, power plants,
refineries, steel processing plants and other industries.
It will
also provide clean energy to households and transportation through the
city gas distribution networks through the pipeline. City Gas
distribution projects have been commissioned at Varanasi, Bhubaneswar
and Cuttack while project activities are in progress at other cities of
eastern India.
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