{"id":296220,"date":"2019-10-15T12:14:16","date_gmt":"2019-10-15T06:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=296220"},"modified":"2019-10-15T12:14:16","modified_gmt":"2019-10-15T06:44:16","slug":"cabinet-to-consider-splitting-gail-pipeline-business-not-to-be-sold-before-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/cabinet-to-consider-splitting-gail-pipeline-business-not-to-be-sold-before-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Cabinet to consider splitting GAIL, pipeline business not to be sold before 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The Union Cabinet may by next month consider a proposal to hive off state-run gas utility GAIL (India) Ltd&#8217;s pipeline business into a separate entity but its sale to a strategic investor may not happen before 2022, 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 fuel.<\/p>\n<p>Sources said 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 Union Cabinet may by next month consider a proposal to hive off state-run gas utility GAIL (India) Ltd&#8217;s pipeline business into a separate entity but its sale to a strategic investor may not happen before 2022, 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 fuel. Sources said to resolve the conflict arising [&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":[130,191,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-296220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296220","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=296220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}