Gas Pipeline Network in India

(Updated in April 2011)

                                                                                                                                                                    Source: GAIL

A) Existing Pipeline Network:

The present length of existing gas transmission pipelines in India is around 10,800 km (excluding city gas distribution networks) with a design capacity of around 270 MMSCMD (million standard cubic meters per day). The details are as below:

Pipeline Design Capacity (in MMSCMD)

Length (in km)

Hazira-Vijaipur-Jagdishpur (HVJ)/Gas Rehabitation Expansion Projects (GREP)

33.4 3397

Dahej-Vijaipur Pipeline (DVPL) 23.9 770

Gujarat Region 19.5 742

Maharashtra Region 23.6 125

Dahej-Uran pipeline (DUPL)/Dabhol-Panvel Pipeline (DPPL) 24 581

Andhra Pradesh Region 15.99 834

Tamil Nadu Region 8.66 260

Tripura 2.26 61

Assam 2.5 8

East West Pipeline (EWPL) 80 1375

Gujarat State Petronet Ltd. (GSPL) (Including spur lines) 28 2025

Assam Gas Company 8 622

Total 269.81 10,800

C) Proposed Gas Pipeline Networks:

a) GAIL's Proposed Pipelines:

 

GAIL's Proposed PipelinesName of the Pipeline State/Districts Potential sources for up

stream tie-upDownstream tie up details

Dadri-Bawana-Nangal The approximate length = 610 km

U.P.: Gautam Budh Nagar, Ghaziabad.

Delhi: North East Delhi, North Delhi and North West Delhi.

Haryana: Sonepat, Panipat, Karnal, Kurushetra, Yamunanagar and Kaithal. Punjab: Sangrur, Bhatinda and

Ludhiana.

R-LNG from Dahel and Hazira and gas from KG basin

Industries, power plants and fertilizers plants, including inter alia Bawana power plant, NFL and PSEB.

Chainsa-Gurgaon-Jhajjar-Hissar Pipeline

The approximate length = 310 km

Haryana: Faridabad, Gurgaon, Jhajjar, Rohtak and Hissar.

Rajasthan: Alwar.

R-LNG from Dahel and Hazira and gas from KG basin

Industries and power plants, including inter alia Industrial areas of Manesar, Gurgaon, Bhiwadi and Neemrana and PPCL's Bamnauli power plant.

Jagdishpur-Haldia Pipeline The approximate length = 876 km

West Bengal: Puruliya, Bankura and Medinipur.

Jharkhand: Hazaribagh and Bokaro. Bihar: Bhabhua, Rohtas,

Aurangabad, Gaya.

Gas from Mahanadi basin and KG basin

Industries and power plants, including inter alia UP Rajya Vidyut Nigam Ltd, Durgapur Chemicals Ltd., West Bengal Power Dev. Corp, SAIL, HFC, FCI, etc. Closed fertilizers units, namely, Gorakhpur, Barauni,

U.P: Rae Bareli, Sultanpur, Jaunpur, Varanasi and Chandauli.

Durgapur, Sindri and Haldia, are expected to be revived.

Dabhol-Bangalore Pipeline The approximate length = 730 km

Maharashtra: Ratnagiri and Kolhapur. Karnataka: Belgaum, Dharwad, Haveri,

Davanagere, Chitradurga, Tumkur and Bangalore.

R-LNG from Dhabol and gas from KG-Basin

Industries and power plants, including inter alia Zuari fertilizers, Tata Power, Hindalco, KEI energy, etc.

Kochi-Kanjirkkod-Bangalore/Mangalore

The approximate length = 822 km

Kerala: Ernakulam, Thrissur, Palakkad, Mallapuram, Kozhikode, Kannur and Kasargod.

Tamil Nadu: Coimbatore, Erode, Salem and Dharmapuri.

Karnataka: Dakshin Kannada, Chamarajnagar, Mandya, Bangalore. 

R-LNG from Kochi and gas from KG basin

Industries and power plants, including inter alia Kannur Power Project Limited, REL- Udyogmandal, NTPC-Kayakullam, FACT-Travancore, etc.

 

 

b) Other Players' (except GAIL) Proposed Pipelines

Other Players' (except GAIL) Proposed Pipelines

Name of the Pipeline

Approximate length (in km)

Capacity (in MMSCMD)

States and districts through which pipeline is passing

Kakinada-Basudebpur-Howrah Gas Pipeline

1,100 km 20 Andhra Pradesh: East Godavari, Vishakhapatnam, Vizzainagaram and Srikakulam.

Orissa: Bhadrak, Baleshwar and Mayurbhanj. W.B.: East Medinipur, West Medinipur, Howrah and Hugli

Kakinada-Nellore-Chennai Pipeline

557 km 10 Andhra Pradesh: Krishna, Guntur, Prakasam, Nellore and Chittoor. Tamil Nadu: Thiruvallur and Chermai.

Chennai-Tuticorin Pipeline

670 km 10 Tamil Nadu: Thiruvallur, Vellore, Kanchipuram, Tiruvannamalai, Vilupuram, Salem, Namakkal, Karur, Dindigul, Virudunagar, Tuticorin, Tirunalveli, Ramanathapuram, Erode, Coimbatore, Dharmapur and Sivagana.

Chennai-Bangalore- Mangalore Pipeline

660 km 10 Tamil Nadu: Thiruvallur, Vellore, Krishnagiri. Andhra Pradesh: Chittoor. Karnataka: Kolar, Bangalore Rural, Bangalore, Tumkur, Mandya, Mysore,

Hassan, Chikmagalur, Dakshina Kannada.

Mehsana-Bathinda 1,670 km 30 Gujarat: Mehsana Rajasthan: Palanpur, Abu Road, Sirohi, Nasirabad, Sikar, Jhunjhunun and

Rajgarh Haryana: Hisar and Sirsa Punjab: Bhatinda

Bhatinda-Srinagar 740 km 15 Punjab: Moga, Kapurthala, Gurdaspur and Pathankot Jammu and Kashmir: Kathua

Mallavaram-Bhilwara

1,584 km 30 Andhra Pradesh: Kakinada, Peddapuram, Ramagundam, Vijayawada Maharashtra: Sipur - Nagpur  Madhya Pradesh: Bhopal, Sehore, Mandsaur, Vijaipur Rajasthan: Bhilwara

Surat-Paradip 1,724 km 30 Gujarat: Surat Maharashtra: Nandurbar, Dhule. Jalgaon, Buldana, Akola, Amravati,

Wardha, Nagpur, Bhandara, Gondia. Chattisgarh: Rajnandgaon, Durg, Dhamtari, Raipur, Mahasamund Orissa: Nauparha, Bargarh, Balangir, Sonepur, Boudh, Phulbani, Nayagarh,

Khurda, Puri, Jagatsinghapur

Duliajan-Numaligarh 194 km 2 Assam: Dibrugarh, Numaligarh

Kumchai-Dumduma 78 km   Assam: Tinsukia

Thus, the above mentioned details gives an idea about the holistic overview about the pipelines which are currently operating and which are proposed to be implemented soon.

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