{"id":282506,"date":"2019-07-16T06:26:52","date_gmt":"2019-07-16T06:26:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=282506"},"modified":"2019-07-16T06:26:52","modified_gmt":"2019-07-16T06:26:52","slug":"government-mulling-to-split-gail-by-selling-pipeline-business-to-strategic-investor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/government-mulling-to-split-gail-by-selling-pipeline-business-to-strategic-investor\/","title":{"rendered":"Government mulling to split GAIL by selling pipeline business to strategic investor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: 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. 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>NEW DELHI: 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,207,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-282506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-new-indian-express","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282506","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}