Dabhol LNG and pipeline commissioned

GAIL (India) Ltd has successfully commissioned the Dhabol – Bengaluru Pipeline system as well as its Dabhol LNG terminal located at Ratnagiri, Maharashtra, around 340 km south of Mumbai, India.

The gas supply to the city of Bengaluru has commenced from GAIL’s 1,000 km long Dabhol – Bengaluru Pipeline constructed with a design capacity of 565 MMcf/d of natural gas.

The pipeline passes through Belgaum, Dharwad, Gadag, Bellary, Devanagere, Chitradurga, Tumkur, Ramanagaram, Bengaluru Rural and Bengaluru Urban. It traverses through 18 national highways, 382 other road crossings, 20 railway crossings, 83 cased crossings and 276 water body crossings including Asia’s largest river crossing in the rocky terrain at Ghatprabha.

Pipeline commissioning

The project involved laying 73 km of 18 inch diameter pipeline in the city of Bengaluru. A 25 km section passed through Reserve Forest Area, and 11 major river crossings were completed, including Zuari, Shastri, Ghad and Ghatprabha.

The Gas Transmission Agreement between GAIL and Karnataka Power Corporation Limited (KPCL) provides for supply of 74 MMcf/d of natural gas from GAIL’s Dabhol – Bengaluru Pipeline to feed KPCL’s power plant for 700 MW of power generation at Bidadi. The supplies will commence within the next 30 months.

Dabhol LNG

The commissioning of the Dhabol re-gasification terminal provides access to natural gas to the southern and western states of Maharashtra, Goa, Karnataka, and Tamil Nadu.

Dabhol LNG and pipeline commissioned

The terminal will serve as a gateway for entry of natural gas to the southern and western parts of the country. The terminal is operated by Ratnagiri Gas and Power Private Limited, a joint venture between GAIL and National Thermal Power Corporation, with the remaining equity being held by financial institutions and Maharashtra State Electricity Board. GAIL, the commercial operator of the terminal, arranged commissioning cargo for the terminal in December 2012.

GAIL plans to maximise the capacity of the terminal re-gasification and storage facilities by leveraging the line-pack of over 10,000 km of cross-country pipeline network.

Chairman and Managing Director for GAIL Shri BC Tripathi said that the capacity of the terminal will be expanded to 7.5 MMt/a and then to 10 MMt/a in the next two to three years.

GAIL, as a commercial operator of the Dabhol terminal, has underwritten the re-gas capacity of the terminal for 25 years in order to lend support to the project. In the immediate future, the gas from the terminal will cater to the demand of the customers in Maharashtra through GAIL’s Dabhol – Panvel Pipeline connected to Maharashtra’s regional pipeline network.

The commissioning of the Dabhol terminal along with GAIL’s cross-country gas pipeline network is poised to integrate the entire gas market of India from Bhatinda/Nangal in North to Kochi in South spanning a gas grid over 3,400 km.

Source : 

http://pipelinesinternational.com/news/dabhol_lng_and_pipeline_commissioned/080358/

http://www.offshoreenergytoday.com/pipeline-pre-commisioning-gig-for-barakah-offshore/