Taking a major step to ensure availability of natural gas for large customers, GAIL (India) Limited has laid a dedicated pipeline to supply the fuel to HPCL Mittal Energy Ltd’s (HMEL) refinery in Bathinda.
The Gas Receiving Station for the pipeline was inaugurated on May 21 by Prabh Das, Managing Director and CEO, HMEL in the presence of Manoj Jain, Chairman & Managing Director, Deepak Gupta, Director (Projects) from GAIL and Vartika Shukla, Chairman & Managing Director, Engineers India Limited.
The dedicated pipeline, laid at a cost of Rs 142 crore, will supply 1 MMSCMD gas to HMEL.
The 44.26 km pipeline of 12 inch diameter is a spur line of the 500 km Dadri - Bawana - Nangal Pipeline (DBNPL).
The DBNPL is a part of the National Gas Grid and runs from Dadri (Uttar Pradesh) through Yamunanagar (Haryana) to Nangal (Punjab) to meet the energy demand of these northern States.