GAIL completes 97.6% of Pradhan Mantri Urja Ganga gas pipeline

State-run GAIL (India) has completed the laying of more than 97.6 per cent of the integrated Jagdishpur–Haldia–Bokaro-Dhamra Pipeline (JHBDPL), popularly known as the Pradhan Mantri Urja Ganga.

The critical pipeline will transport natural gas to the eastern and north-eastern part of India. Of the completed part, almost 96.6 per cent has been put under commercial operations, the country’s largest gas utility said.

The integrated JHBDPL including Barauni–Guwahati Pipeline has an authorised length of 3,306 km and it passes through Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha, West Bengal and Assam.

Currently, 3,227 km of pipeline section has been laid and 3,119 km of the section including the Phulpur–Dobhi–Bokaro–Durgapur, Bokaro–Angul–Dhamra, Dobhi–Barauni–Guwahati pipeline sections have already been put under commercial operations, it added.

The pipeline is presently transporting 12.26 million standard cubic meters per day (MSCMD) of natural gas including supplies to four fertilizer plants, two refineries (Barauni and Paradip), industrial consumers and 32 City Gas Distribution (CGD) networks including Varanasi, Patna, Ranchi, Jamshedpur, Bhubaneshwar, Cuttack, Kolkata etc.

With respect to the Durgapur–Haldia Section (294 km), GAIL has already put 132 km of the section up to Kolkata under commercial operation. Besides, out of the balance 162 km of the pipeline section to Haldia, 103 km of laying work has been completed.

GAIL is also laying Dhamra–Haldia section having an authorized pipeline length of 240 km of which GAIL has already laid 198 km of pipeline.

Due to limited availability of Right of Use (RoU), the completion of Durgapur–Haldia section and Dhamra-Haldia section of JHBDPL expansion is being extended from March 2025 to December 2025.

With the completion of balance section of Durgapur–Haldia and Dhamra–Haldia Pipeline, GAIL will transport Natural Gas to Haldia refinery, CGD Howrah, Hooghly, Purba Medinipur, Paschim Medinipur and other industrial consumers along the pipeline route.

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Published on April 10, 2025