KOCHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the Kochi–Mangaluru Natural Gas Pipeline virtually on January 5, GAIL India Ltd chairman and managing director Manoj Jain said on Saturday. The pipeline is expected to bring a big boost to gas economy providing cheaper and cleaner fuel to industrial and residential consumers. Governors and chief ministers of Kerala and Karnataka and Union Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas Dharmendra Pradhan will attend the inaugural function virtually, he said.
The 450-km pipeline can transport 12 million metric standard cubic metres of natural gas per day from the Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) regasification terminal in Kochi to Mangaluru.
