GAIL to simultaneously lay gas pipeline from Mangaluru and Kochi

Mangalore Today News Network

 Mangaluru, Feb 16, 2017: Gas Authority of India Ltd. (GAIL) on Tuesday awarded contract for pipeline-laying work for the 105-km Perole-Kodalamuguru-Mangaluru section to transport natural gas from Kochi in Kerala.

Consequently, work on the 440-km Kochi-Koottanad-Mangaluru natural gas pipeline would be carried out simultaneously from both the ends — Kochi and Mangaluru.

The simultaneous execution of work is expected to hasten pipeline-laying work.

GAIL is targeting to complete the 440-km pipeline by December 2018 thereby bringing succour to industries and other users of natural gas in the region.

A release from GAIL here said that GAIL chairman and managing director B.C. Tripathi met Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Tuesday to apprise him of the progress of the pipeline project. He also met Kerala government officials.

Mr. Tripathi told the Kerala government about the satisfactory pipeline-laying activities on the 91-km Kochi-Koottanad section and Panchanama activities across the State wherein substantial headway has been made during the last six or seven months, the release said.

He said that work on the 91-km Kochi-Koottanad section, which was awarded in September 2016, has been received positively by all stakeholders.

He said that the pipeline would serve as a “Green Energy Corridor” for decades to come and enable city gas distribution companies and gas-based industries to come up in the State. As a result, environment-friendly piped natural gas and compressed natural gas would be supplied to households and vehicles.

Courtesy: The Hindu