GAIL inaugurates Gas Receiving Station at Bathinda, incurs cost of Rs142 crore

23 May 2022 , 02:31 PM

Taking a major step to ensure the 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 here.

The dedicated pipeline, which will supply 1 MMSCMD gas to HMEL, has been laid for Rs142 crore. The 44.26 Km pipeline of 12-inch diameter (total capacity – 5 MMSCMD) is a spur line of the 500 Km Dadri – Bawana – Nangal Pipeline (DBNPL). The natural gas supply tap-off is taken from GAIL receiving terminal at NFL, Bathinda.

The Gas Receiving Station for the pipeline was inaugurated today by Shri Prabh Das, Managing Director and CEO, HMEL in the presence of Shri Manoj Jain, Chairman & Managing Director, GAIL, Ms. Vartika Shukla, Chairman & Managing Director, Engineers India Limited and Shri Deepak Gupta, Director (Projects), GAIL.

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.

GAIL (India) is currently trading at Rs152.90 down by Rs3.3 or 2.11% from its previous closing of Rs156.20 on the BSE. The scrip opened at Rs155.80 and has touched intraday high and low of Rs156.10 and Rs152.75 respectively.