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Gas Authority of India Limited

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GAIL (India) Limited, a ‘Navratna’ enterprises, was established in the year 1984 and is primarily and integrated Natural Gas company, focusing on all aspects of the Gas supply and value chain including exploration, production, transmission, petrochemicals, processing, distribution and marketing of Natural Gas and other related, products and services. The current holding of Government of India in GAIL, after disinvestment, is 57.35 percent.

The company owns and operates a network of over 5,340 km of Natural Gas high pressure trunk pipeline with a capacity to carry 118 MMSCMD of natural gas across the country’s LPG transmission business of GAIL includes the 1900 km LPG pipeline networks which connect the Western and Northern parts of India and also in the Southern part of the country it has a capacity to transport 3.8 MMTPA of LPG.

GAIL’s share of gas transmission business is 88 percent and the company hold 81 percent market share in gas marketing in India The Company has established North India’s only gas based integrated petrochemical plant in Pata, Uttar Pradesh with a capacity of producing 3 lakh TPS of Ethylene and 3.10 lakh TPA of Polymers, i.e., HDPE AND LLDPE.

GAIL has also formed joint venture companies for supplies to households, commercial users and for the transport sector. Presently, GAIL has set up JV companies in the cities of Delhi, Mumbai and Hyderabad to supply gas to the automobile and household sectors.

GAILTEL, the telecommunication service wring of GAIL (India) Limited, provides commercial bandwidth services under its infrastructure provider category II and internet services provider category A licenses. The company has 8,200 km of OFC network of capacity 160 GBPS connecting 73 cities.

GAIL has joint ventures in Mahanagar Gas Limited (JV with British Gas of UK) in Mumbai and Indraprastha Gas Limited (JV with Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited) in Delhi for City Gas Distribution Schemes including CNG for the transport sector. Besides, GAIL has an equity participation with ONGC, BPCL, and IOC in Petronet LNG Limited for setting up LNG terminals at Dahej in Gujarat and Kochi in Kerala for import of LNG in the country.

GAIL gas participated with 12.85 percent participating interest in 156 MW Power Project being developed by Gujarat State Electricity Generation Limited (GSEG) at Hazira in Gujarat.

The project is gas based dual fuel combined cycle power plant. The company has also entered into a JV agreement with HPCL to distribute piped natural gas for domestic, commercial and industrial consumers in an around the cities in the state of Andhra Pradesh.

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