GAIL pipeline tenders from April
GAIL is expected to issue even more tenders after April 2017 to lay parts of its approximately 1000-km gas pipeline from Haldia in West Bengal to Phulpur in Uttar Pradesh.
This is part of Narendra Modi's ambitious 'Urja Ganga' project to promote gas-based industrialisation and retail gas networks in eastern and northern India. GAIL awarded pipeline laying contracts end-January for a 360-km stretch between Haldia and Dobhi in Jharkhand to IL&FS Engineering and Construction, JSIW Infrastructure, Corrtech International and Kalpataru Power Transmission: each must lay about 90-km.
GAIL will supply pipe itself to these contractors and has informed contractors that tenders for the remaining length of the pipeline from Dobhi to Phulpur will be out in 2017-18, divided into five sections. Here too GAIL will supply the pipe itself.
State-owned MECON, GAIL's project consultant, has prepared the Front End Engineering and Design document for the entire Haldia to Phulpur pipeline which, with 24-inch, 30-inch and 36-inch diameters, is likely to cost around Rs1500cr ($225m) to lay.
