GAIL completes laying over 97.6 % of Pradhan Mantri Urja Ganga
Published by Elizabeth Corner,
Senior Editor
World Pipelines,
GAIL (India) Limited has completed laying of over 97.6% of the integrated Jagdishpur-Haldia-Bokaro-Dhamra Pipeline (JHBDPL), popularly known as ‘Pradhan Mantri Urja Ganga’, carrying Natural Gas to Eastern and North-Eastern part of India. Of this, almost 96.6% has been put under commercial operations.
The integrated JHBDPL, including Barauni-Guwahati Pipeline, with an authorised pipeline length of 3306 km, passes through Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha, West Bengal and Assam. Presently, 3227 km of pipeline has been laid and 3119 km of pipeline including the Phulpur-Dobhi-Bokaro-Durgapur, Bokaro-Angul-Dhamra, Dobhi-Barauni-Guwahati pipeline sections have already been put under commercial operation.
The pipeline is presently transporting 12.26 million ft3/d of natural gas including supplies to four fertilizer plants, two refineries (Barauni and Paradip refineries), industrial consumers and 32 City Gas Distribution (CGD) networks including Varanasi, Patna, Ranchi, Jamshedpur, Bhubaneshwar, Cuttack, Kolkata along the pipeline route.
With respect to Durgapur-Haldia Section (294 km), GAIL has already put 132 km of pipeline up to Kolkata under commercial operation. Of the 162 km pipeline section to Haldia, 103 km of pipelaying has been completed. GAIL is also laying the Dhamra-Haldia Section with an authorised pipeline length of 240 km (of which GAIL has already laid 198 km). Due to limited availability of right of use (RoU), the completion of Durgapur-Haldia section and Dhamra-Haldia section of the JHBDPL expansion are being extended from March 2025 to December 2025.
Read the article online at: https://www.worldpipelines.com/project-news/14042025/gail-completes-laying-over-976-of-pradhan-mantri-urja-ganga/
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