GAIL: The Corporation That Runs The LPG Pipelines That Provides Fuel To India


Gas Authority of India Limited, commonly referred to as GAIL, is India’s largest state-run and owned natural gas processing and disbursement cooperation with its headquarters in national capital of New Delhi. The company has the business operations in the domain of liquefied petroleum gas transmission, natural gas (mostly methane) and liquid hydrocarbon processing and distribution, petroleum byproducts like petrochemical production, urban gas distribution, exploration of novel sites coupled with production, as well as electricity generation. GAIL is recognized as a prestigious Maharatna company by the Government of India since 2013. It is among only eight other PSE (Public Sector Enterprise) corporations that has received this esteemed recognition. Over the preceding years GAIL has demonstrated immense growth in the field of gas transmission by constructing a massive network of trunk pipelines covering a distance of around 10,700 kilometers across the country. Currently GAIL owns the largest pipeline network in the country. One of the flagship LPG pipelines of India is the enormous cross-country 2300 km Hazira-Vijaipur-Jagdishpur pipeline which has the operational capacity to handle 33.4 MMSCMD of gas. Additionally the company owns and operates more than 2000 km of LPG pipelines in India and holds the unique and esteemed position of operating one of the world's longest exclusive LPG pipeline. The pipeline extends from Jamnagar in the state of Gujarat to Loni in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India. So far, the corporation has set up a total of eight major LPG processing plants, four of which are along the iconic Hazira-Vijaipur-Jagdishpur pipeline, two of these plants are in Vijaipur, Madhya Pradesh, one at Vaghodia in the state of Gujarat and the other is at Auraiya, Uttar Pradesh. Furthermore, there are additional processing plants in the state of Assam and Maharashtra. The one in Assam is in Lakwa and the one in the state of Maharashtra is situated in Usar. Collectively these plants have the capacity to produce nearly 1 million tpa of LPG.  The LPG produced and processed in these plants is then distributed largely through to pipelines that cover twenty two states across the country. GAIL runs a complex LPG distribution network through pipelines that ensures the availability of the largest consumed source of domestic fossil fuel in the country.  Additionally LPG is used in large scale electricity generation providing electric power to a nation of 1.3 billion people. LPG pipelines provide fuel that drives the nation’s economy into the twenty first century.

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