Gail places Rs 500 cr orders for line pipes with four companies

Gail India Ltd has place orders for purchase of 341 km of line pipes for the Phulpur-Haldia/Dhamra Natural Gas Pipeline with four companies at a total cost of Rs 500 crore. The line pipes, to be supplied by Jindal Saw Ltd, Man Industries India Ltd, Essar Steel India Ltd and China's Zhongyou BSS Qinhuangdao Petropipe Co Ltd, will be used in the Phulpur (Uttar Pradesh) - Dobhi (Bihar) section of the pipeline.
 
The pipeline, the construction work of which was inaugurated by PM Narendra Modi, will serve as the energy highway (Urja Ganga) of Eastern India. The 1681 km Phulpur-Haldia/Dhamra Pipeline will be completed in three phases at a cost of Rs 12,000 crore and cover eastern Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha, and West Bengal.
   
The first phase at a project cost of Rs 3,200 crore and will cover 755 km and include Phulpur-Mani, Mani-Gorakhpur, Mani-Varanasi, Mani-Dobhi, Dobhi-Silao-Patna and Silao-Barauni sections.
 
Subsequent phases of the 16 MMSCMD pipeline will cover major cities including Gorakhpur, Varanasi, Patna, Barauni, Bokaro, Ranchi, Rourkela, Paradip, Bhubaneswar, Cuttack, Durgapur, Kolkata and Jamshedpur and nearby areas through 30"/24" mainline and spurlines.