R-ADAG proposes Rs16,000cr gas pipeline

Reliance-Anil Ambani group (R-ADAG) firm Reliance Fuel Resources (RFRL) has approached the government seeeking permission to lay a Rs 16,000 crore pipeline to take natural gas from Reliance Industries-operated field off the Andhra coast to its power plant at Dadri in Uttar Pradesh.

RFRL wrote to the petroleum secretary on June 5 for permission to lay a pipeline from Kakinada to Dadri, a govt official said.

The pipeline from Kakinada, the landfall point of the gas from KG-D6 block of RIL in Krishna-Godavari basin, will pass through Hyderabad and onwards to Nagpur, Bhopal, Delhi and finally reach Dadri, where an Anil Ambani group firm is setting up a 5,600 MW power project.

The company spokesperson was not immediately available for comments.