GSPL to transport gas for Reliance refinery

Gujarat State Petronet Ltd, a gas distribution arm of Gujarat Petroleum Corporation Limited (GSPC), has signed an agreement with Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) for transportation of 11 mmscmd gas from Bharuch to Jamnagar for a period of 15 years starting from the first quarter of 2008-2009.

The agreement has paved the way for further understanding between GSPC and RIL to transport GSPC gas from KG basin to the west coast through a pipeline, which will land in Uran, Maharashtra.

RIL is laying a 40-inch pipeline between Kakinada and Uran, which is capable of transporting gas discovered by Reliance in the KG basin alongwith GSPC's gas.

Both GSPC and RIL discovered gas in adjoining blocks and are expected to have landfall point just next to each other to facilitate transport of gas. RIL has landfall point at Gadimoga village, about 30 km south of Kakinada.

To bring gas from Dhirubhai discoveries of D6 block and pump it to the Kakinada-Uran pipeline, Reliance is planning to set up sub-sea controls to connect 18 sub-sea wells and six manifolds.

Two 24-inch pipelines will ship gas to the offshore shallow water central receiving platform from where two shallow water pipelines of the same diameter will each transport gas to its proposed onshore terminal at Gadimoga village, where work is already underway.