GAIL begins work on Dabhol-Bangalore Pipeline, places orders worth Rs. 677 crore
merisarkar news service
New Delhi, October 06, 2010
The Pipeline will be ready by March 2012: BC Tripathi
Public Sector Gas transportation utility GAIL (India) Limited on Thursday placed orders worth Rs. 677 crore for laying of pipelines for Dabhol- Bangalore Pipeline Project. BC Tripathi, CMD GAIL said on the occasion, "The placement of construction contract marks a significant step towards execution of the pipeline project and is a testimony of GAIL's commitment to bring gas supplies to Karnataka by 2012."
With this, GAIL has within the last 3 months placed orders worth about Rs.2,000 crore for both line pipes and pipeline laying to enable swift project implementation.
The construction work will start by November 2010 and the pipeline will be ready by March 2012. The commissioning activities would take further couple of months and the gas supplies are expected to begin by June 2012.
The 1400 km Dabhol-Bangalore pipeline project was approved by GAIL Board in June 2009 at an estimated cost of Rs. 5,000 crore with a capacity of 16 MMMSCMD of natural gas transmission. The project activities for this pipeline are in full swing. Applications for obtaining statutory permission for Railway, Highway, River crossings have been made.
The complete work of pipeline from Dabhol (Ratnagiri District, Maharashtra) to Bidadi (Ramnagar district, Karnataka) and two additional spur lines ( from Gokak in Belgaum District, Karnataka to Goa and from Sulivara in South Bangalore District, Karnataka to Bangalore) have been divided into ten spreads.
Of these ten spreads, 7 spreads have been awarded to Punj Lloyd Limited, 2 spreads have been awarded to KSS-KSSIIPL Consortium and 1 spread has been awarded to Advance Stimul Consortium.
