New Delhi, Dec 05: Reliance Industires Ltd, which recently discovered world-class gas reserves off the east coast, is planning to lay gas pipelines connecting the country's eastern coast with the western, the Lok Sabha was informed today. "Gas Transportation and Infrastructrue Co Ltd, a company promoted by RIL, is executing two pipeline projects - Goa-Hyderabad-Kakinada pipeline project and Jamnagar-Bhopal pipeline project, which will be extended to Cuttack in Orissa in phase-II," minister of state for petroleum & natural gas Santosh Kumar Gangwar said in a written reply.
RIL, in consortium with Niko resources of Canada, has discovered seven trillion cubic feet of gas reserves in the Krishna-Godavari basin of Andhra Pradesh.
The in-place reserves are equivalent to about 1.2 billion barrels or 165 million tonnes of crude oil, which can deliver anything between 25 to 40 million standard cubic metres of gas per day in three to four years.
Gangwar said for the pipeline projects the process of acquisition of land under petroleum & mineral pipeline (acquisition of right of user in land) act, 1962 is on.
Oman-India pipeline: to another question, Gangwar said Oman-India gas pipeline project has been shelved as technical feasibility of the project could not be established and adequate gas reserves were not earmarked in Oman for the project.
He also cited lack of proven technology to undertake deep-sea repair as another reason for shelving of the project. Bureau Report