"At present, your company is expanding the natural gas pipeline network by executing more than 5,700 kilometers of major projects," Karnatak said at the companys annual general meeting of shareholders here. Of this, Rs 32,000 crore would go into pipeline laying and another Rs 12,000 crore in city gas distribution (CGD) networks for retailing of CNG to automobiles and piped natural gas to household kitchens."Around 1,050 km of pipeline projects along Varanasi-Dobhi-Patna/Barauni, Auraiya-Phulpur and other last-mile connectivity were completed during the 2018-19 fiscal," he said at the AGM.."Your company has recently been authorised by (regulator) PNGRB to lay the 600 km Srikakulam-Angul natural gas pipeline through the recently-concluded bidding process.

Polypropylene is used in a variety of applications, including packaging of consumer products, plastic parts of various industries including the automotive industry, special devices like living hinges, and textiles.Later talking to reporters, he said the investment would span over the next five years.Jagdishpur-Haldia & Bokaro-Dhamra Natural Gas Pipeline (JHBDPL) project, also known as the Pradhan Mantri Urja Ganga project, was inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in July 2015.It is rapidly building infrastructure to support the government push towards a gas-based economy by raising the share of natural gas in the energy basket to 15 per cent by 2030 from current 6."Investments worth over Rs 45,000 crore are envisaged in coming few years, across major cross country pipeline projects along Urja Ganga Project, Koch-Kootanad-Bangalore-Mangalore, Indradhanush North East Gas Grid and other crucial pipelines connecting supply and demand centres envisaged under the National Gas Grid," he said.Investments would also go into the expansion of petrochemical plants.2 per cent.The pipeline would be extended to Guwahati by laying an additional 750-km line. This limb is expected to be an important segment of the National Gas Grid and enhance your companys coverage of natural gas markets along the eastern coast as well," he said."This is first of its kind project in India," he said, adding GAIL Board has also approved setting up of 60,000 tones polypropylene unit at the existing petrochemical facility at Pata in Uttar Pradesh.GAIL currently operates 11,000-km of pipeline network and markets two-thirds of all natural gas sold in the country. At Guwahati, it would interconnect with the upcoming 1,500-km Indradhanush pipeline network conceived to operate in northeast by the public sector oil and gas majors. The company is building a 2,655-km gas pipeline from Jagdishpur in Uttar Pradesh to West Bengal and Odisha.New Delhi: State-owned gas utility GAIL India Ltd will invest over Rs 45,000 crore over the next five years to expand the National Gas Grid and city gas distribution network, its chairman Ashutosh Karnatak said on Tuesday.Karnatak said the companys board has approved the utilisation of existing assets China acrylic airless bottle and premises of LPG plant at Usar in Maharasthra by converting it into 500,000 tonnes polypropylene complex at an investment of around Rs 8,800 crore. GAIL is looking to put up 400 CNG stations and give out a record 10 lakh piped natural gas (PNG) connections to household kitchens in the next 3-5 years

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