The company said that, depending on the source and customer tie-up, the 30-inch, 730km Dabhol-Bangalore gas pipeline shall be designed to carry 16 million standard cubic meters per day of gas and will need an investment of approximately INR25 billion.
The project shall be appraised/updated in respect of investment, customers’ identification, routing of the pipeline and freezing the design parameters before final investment approval by the Gas Authority of India (GAIL) board.
The route of the proposed pipeline is from R-LNG Terminal of Ratnagiri Gas and Power Private Limited (RGPPL) at Dabhol in Maharashtra up to Bangalore. The pipeline will pass through Ratnagiri and Kolhapur districts of Maharashtra; and Belgaum, Dharwad, Haveri, Davangere, Chitradurga, Tumkur and Bangalore districts of Karnataka. With this pipeline, natural gas from RGPPL’s R-LNG Terminal can be supplied to industrial clusters in the states of Maharashtra and Karnataka of India.
