{"id":282502,"date":"2019-07-16T06:12:11","date_gmt":"2019-07-16T06:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=282502"},"modified":"2019-07-16T06:26:26","modified_gmt":"2019-07-16T06:26:26","slug":"govt-mulling-splitting-gail-to-sell-pipeline-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/govt-mulling-splitting-gail-to-sell-pipeline-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt mulling splitting GAIL; to sell pipeline business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The government is considering to split state-run gas utility GAIL (India) Ltd by hiving off its pipeline business into a separate entity and selling it off to strategic investors, sources privy to the development said.<\/p>\n<p>GAIL is India&#8217;s biggest natural gas marketing and trading firm and owns more than two-thirds of the country&#8217;s 16,234-km pipeline network, giving it a stranglehold on the market.<\/p>\n<p>Users of natural gas have often complained about not getting access to GAIL&#8217;s 11,551-km pipeline network to transport their own fuel.<\/p>\n<p>The sources said that to resolve the conflict arising out of the same entity owning the two jobs, bifurcating GAIL is being considered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government is considering to split state-run gas utility GAIL (India) Ltd by hiving off its pipeline business into a separate entity and selling it off to strategic investors, sources privy to the development said. GAIL is India&#8217;s biggest natural gas marketing and trading firm and owns more than two-thirds of the country&#8217;s 16,234-km pipeline network, giving it a stranglehold on the market. Users of natural gas have often complained about not getting access to GAIL&#8217;s 11,551-km pipeline network to transport their own fuel. The sources said that to resolve the conflict arising out of the same entity owning the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,211,144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-282502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-pioneer","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}