GAIL
- GAIL (India) Limited (previously known as Gas Authority of India Ltd.) is a government maintained natural gas explorer and producer accountable for natural gas processing and distribution in India.
- Headquartered: GAIL Bhawan, New Delhi, India.
- It is owned by the Indian government’s Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas.
It has the following business segments :
- Natural Gas,
- Liquid Hydrocarbon,
- Liquefied Petroleum Gas Transmission,
- Petrochemical,
- City Gas Distribution,
- Renewable Energy Including Solar & Wind, Exploration & Production,
- Petrochemicals,
- Gailtel
- Electricity Generation.
- It owns and operates a natural gas pipeline network of 13,722 kilometres, and is currently working on 6,000 kilometres of pipeline projects on its own and 2,000 kilometres through two joint ventures as part of the National Gas Grid.
- PNGRB has given the Company permission to build a 1,755-kilometer pipeline between Mumbai and Nagpur in Jharsuguda.
- It was established as a Central Public Sector Undertaking (CPSU) under the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas in August 1984. (MoP&NG).
- Gas Authority of India Limited was the company’s previous name.
- The Hazira – Vijaypur – Jagdishpur (HVJ) pipeline project was initially assigned to the business for construction, operation, and maintenance. One of the world’s largest cross-country natural gas pipeline projects.
- It completed the world’s longest and India’s first cross-state LPG transmission pipeline, which runs from Gujarat’s Jamnagar to Uttar Pradesh’s Loni, in 2001. This LPG pipeline is 1415 kilometres long.
Subsidiaries:
- GAIL Gas Limited
- Brahmaputra Cracker and Polymer Limited (BCPL)
- GAIL Global (Singapore) Pte Limited
- GAIL Global (USA) Inc.
- GAIL Global (USA) LNG LLC
Key people: Manoj Jain, (Chairman & MD) Year 2022
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