Taking a major step to ensure availability of natural gas for large customers, GAIL (India) Limited has laid a dedicated pipeline to supply the fuel to HPCL Mittal Energy Ltd. (HMEL) refinery.

The Gas Receiving Station for the pipeline was inaugurated by Prabh Das, Managing Director and CEO, HMEL in the presence of Manoj Jain, Chairman & Managing Director, GAIL; Vartika Shukla, Chairman & Managing Director, Engineers India Limited; and Deepak Gupta, Director (Projects), GAIL.

The dedicated pipeline has been laid at a cost of Rs. 142 crore and will supply one MMSCMD gas to HMEL. The 44.26 Km pipeline of 12-inch diameter (total capacity - 5 MMSCMD) is a spur line of the 500 Km Dadri - Bawana - Nangal Pipeline (DBNPL). The natural gas supply taps off is taken from GAIL receiving terminal at NFL, Bathinda.

The DBNPL is a part of the National Gas Grid and runs from Dadri (Uttar Pradesh) through Yamunanagar (Haryana) to Nangal (Punjab), to meet energy demand of these northern states. The pipeline will boost the supply of natural gas in the region, resulting in increased supply for domestic households, vehicles, commercial and industrial establishments. It already supplies gas to various industrial customers and city gas networks, i.e., IGL Ghaziabad, Bawana, Saharanpur, Yamunanagar, Mandi, Gobindgarh, Nangal, Ludhiana, NFL Bhatinda, CGS Ludhiana, etc.