GAIL

GAIL (India) Limited operates as a natural gas processing and distribution company in India and internationally. The company operates through Transmission Services, Natural Gas Marketing, Petrochemicals, LPG and Other Liquid Hydrocarbons, and Other segments. It is involved in the transmission and marketing of natural gas to the power, fertilizer, industrial, automotive, petrochemicals, and domestic and commercial sectors. It also markets liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), propane, pentane, naphtha, mixed fuel oil, polyethylene, and polypropylene; and manufactures petrochemicals, such as high-density polyethylene and linear low-density polyethylene under the brand names of G-Lex and G-Lene. In addition, the company generates wind and solar power. Further, the company engages in the chartering of LNG vessels. The company owns and operates approximately 14,500 km of natural gas pipeline. Additionally, the company operates 5 gas processing plants, 2 petrochemicals plants, 10 LPG pumping/receiving stations, and 8 natural gas compressor stations. GAIL (India) Limited was incorporated in 1984 and is based in New Delhi, India.

GAIL Limited was incorporated in August 1984 as a Central Public Sector Undertaking under the Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas . The company was formerly known as Gas Authority of India Limited. It is India's principal gas transmission and marketing company. The company was initially given the responsibility of construction, operation and maintenance of the Hazira – Vijaypur – Jagdishpur pipeline project. It was one of the largest cross-country natural gas pipeline projects in the world. This 1750-kilometre-long pipeline was built at a cost of ?17 billion and it laid the foundation for development of market for natural gas in India. GAIL commissioned the 1,750 kilometres Hazira-Vijaipur-Jagdishpur pipeline in 1991. Between 1991 and 1993, three liquefied petroleum gas plants were constructed and some regional pipelines acquired, enabling GAIL to begin its gas transportation in various parts of India.GAIL began its city gas distribution in New Delhi in 1997 by setting up nine compressed natural gas stations.In order to secure gas for its mainstream business, the Exploration and Production department was created. Today GAIL is a partner in the Daewoo-OVL led consortium in two offshore blocks in Myanmar which have made a gas discovery. The bulk of its blocks are located in India in the prolific basins of Cambay, Assam-Arakan, Mahanadi, Krishna Godavary deep water and onland, Cauvery onland and deep water and western offshore. It is actively scouting for foreign blocks both exploratory or discovery.GAIL today has reached new milestones with its strategic diversification into petrochemicals, telecom and liquid hydrocarbons besides gas infrastructure. The company has also extended its presence in power, liquefied natural gas re-gasification, city gas distribution and exploration & production through participation in equity and joint ventures. Incorporating the new-found energy into its corporate identity, Gas Authority of India was renamed GAIL Limited on 22 November 2002.GAIL Limited has shown organic growth in gas transmission through the years by building large network of trunk pipelines covering length of around 10,700 kilometres . Leveraging on the core competencies, GAIL played a key role as gas market developer in India for decades catering to major industrial sectors like power, fertilizers, and city gas distribution. GAIL transmits more than 160 million cubic metre per day at standard conditions of gas through its dedicated pipelines and have more than 70% market share in both gas transmission and marketing.

Infrastructure

GAIL owns the country's largest pipeline network, the cross-country 2300 km Hazira-Vijaipur-Jagdishpur pipeline with a capacity to handle 33.4 million cubic metre per day at standard conditions gas. Today the company owns and operates more than 11000 km long cross country natural Gas Pipeline in India having presence in 22 states in the country. It also owns and operates more than 2000 km long LPG pipelines in the country and has the pride to operate one of the world's longest exclusive LPG pipeline in the country from Jamnagar in Gujarat to Loni in Uttar Pradesh. The company also owns and operates seven mega LPG recovery plants in the country today and has to its credit almost 20% of domestic LPG produced and supplied for the domestic usage through its sisters PSUs like IOCL, BPCL and HPCL. GAIL is one of the major petrochemical conglomerates in the country today with India's largest gas based petrochemicals in operation since 1999. In petrochemicals it has its own gas based integrated petrochemical plant and also the ownership of 70% in dual fuel petrochemicals in Assam, Brahmaputra Cracker and Polymer Limited and one of the major equity partners in OPal.

The company supplies gas to power plants for generation of over 4,000 MW of power to the Fertilizer plants for production of 10 million tonnes of urea and to several other industries. The regional pipelines are in Mumbai, Gujarat, Rajasthan, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Pondicherry, Assam, Tripura, Madhya Pradesh, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and Delhi. The Company has established six gas processing plants, four along the HVJ pipeline two at Vijaipur, MP, one at Vaghodia, Gujarat and Auraiya, UP and one each in Lakwa, Assam and Usar, Maharashtra. These plants have the capacity to produce nearly 1 million tpa of LPG. GAIL has also set up several compressor stations for boosting the gas pressure to desired levels for its customers and internal users.

GAIL also possesses a vast telecommunication network that contributes significantly to the high level of system reliability of operations, on-line real-time communication and monitoring higher productivity. GAIL became the first Infrastructure Provider Category II Licensee and signed the country's first Service Level Agreement for leasing bandwidth in the Delhi-Vijaipur sector in 2001, through its telecom business GAILTEL.

In 2001, GAIL commissioned the world's longest and India's first cross state LPG transmission pipeline running from Jamnagar in Gujarat to Loni in Uttar Pradesh. The total length of this LPG pipeline is 1415 km.

GAIL has started working on the Jagdishpur-Haldia/Bokaro-Dhamra Pipeline. This was earlier planned to constructed between Jagdishpur in Uttar Pradesh to Haldia in Bengal for a total length of 2050 km. But now it has been reconfigured. The pipeline will connect Varanasi to the gas grid, to link the Dhamra terminal. The over 2,500-kilometer line will be constructed in three phases and will also now connect Adani Group's Dhamra LNG import terminal in Odisha. In the first phase, a trunk pipeline from Phulpur will be laid to Dobhi in Bihar with spur lines to Barauni and Patna. The 755-km Phase-1 project will cost Rs 3,200 crore and will be completed by December 2018. GAIL already as a line up to Phulpur. It is raising capacity of this pipeline by laying a 672-km parallel line from Vijaipur in Madhya Pradesh to Phulpur via Auriaya in Uttar Pradesh at the cost of Rs 4,300 crore. In the Phase-II, a 1200-km line would be laid from Dobhi to Bokaro/Ranchi in Jharkhand and Angul and Dharma in Odisha at the cost of Rs 5,565 crore. Phase-III will involve laying 583-km line to Haldia at the cost of Rs 3,425 crore.

To accelerate and optimize the effective and economic use of Natural Gas and its fractions for the benefit of the national economy.

To be the leading company in Natural Gas and Beyond, with Global Focus, Committed to Customer Care, Value Creation for all Stakeholders and Environmental Responsibility.