Indian pipe cos get lion's share of 550 crore GAIL contract
New Delhi: Three Indian pipe manufacturers have walked away with a major chunk of a Rs 550 crore
order from GAIL as the state-run gas utility began spending on building the main stretch of Urja Ganga –
Prime Minister Narendra Modi's proposed energy lifeline to revive fertilizer units and supply cleaner fuel
to the eastern region.
Sources said GAIL has placed the order for 341 km of pipes with Jindal Saw, Essar Steel and MAN
Industries. China's Zhongyou BSS (Qinhuangdao) Petropipe is the lone overseas company to be awarded
part of the contract, indicating the competitiveness of Indian manufacturing.
The order is for linking Phulpur in UP with Dobhi in Bihar, which is part of the Phulpur-Haldia pipeline.
Work on spur lines from Gaya to Barauni via Patna in Bihar is already in progress. GAIL is set to complete
the Rs 12,000-crore Phulpur-Haldia- Dhamra (Odisha) project in three phases.
The project envisages laying a 2,050-km pipeline for supplying cleaner and cheaper fuel to Allahabad in
UP; Patna, Gaya, Chapra, Siwan, Gopalganj, Muzaffarpur, Bettiah and Bhagalpur in Bihar; Bokaro,
Dhanbad, Ranchi and Jamshedpur in Jharkhand; and Asansol, Durgapur and Kolkata in West Bengal.
The pipeline will also help revive defunct fertilizer plants in Gorakhpur (UP), Barauni (Bihar), Sindri
(Jharkhand) and Durgapur (West Bengal).
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