New pipeline to boost FY22 gas supply by quarter: GSPL
The 930-km (578-miles) pipeline linking Mehsana in Gujarat to Bathinda in the northern state of Punjab at a cost of 55 billion rupees ($739 million) will be ready by March, the firm’s joint managing director, Sanjeev Kumar, told Reuters.
“Around 80% of the physical work of the pipeline has been completed,” Kumar said in a telephone interview.
India’s coronavirus lockdown hit construction of the pipeline, with a daily capacity of 30 million cubic meters (mmscmd), delaying it past an initial completion date of December.
GSPL operates about 2,700 km (1,678 miles) of gas pipelines with capacity of 43 mmscmd, but in the 2019-20 financial year it supplied 40 mmscmd gas, as one pipeline was commissioned only in November 2019.
