The Hindu Business Line : GAIL implements gas management system

IN a bid to simplify the complex gas transportation and distribution system, GAIL (India) Ltd has successfully implemented "Gas Management System" (GMS).

The Web-enabled system ensures better co-ordination and total transparency and is a step towards advanced customer service, a company release said. It facilitates smooth handling of different streams of natural gas from multiple supply sources pumped into the pipeline systems for delivery to multiple end-users.

GMS has been implemented for natural gas transportation for all trunk pipeline networks across India which includes Hazira -Vijaipur - Jagdishpur (HVJ) pipeline, Dahej - Vijaipur pipeline (DVPL), South Gujarat, North Gujarat, Mumbai, K.G. Basin, Cauvery Basin, Agartala, Lakwa and Rajasthan pipeline networks.

GMS creates a common platform by integrating multiple players such as suppliers, shippers, customers and transporters.

Taking advantage of the system, GAIL has doubled the supplies of re-gasified LNG (RLNG) through the DVPL system since April 2005 to 17.5 million cubic meters per day, thereby easing the overall gas availability situation to the customers along its route.

This has benefited a host of customers such as IFFCO, Oswal Chemical & Fertilisers Ltd, Indo Gulf Fertiliser, Chambal Fertilisers & Chemicals Ltd, Kribhco and Gujarat State Fertiliser Corporation.

The 610-km long pipeline evacuates RLNG from the Dahej LNG Import Terminal in Gujarat, runs parallel to GAIL's existing HVJ pipeline up to Vijaipur in Madhya Pradesh and from there onwards it joins the HVJ system to carry RLNG up to the NCR of Delhi.

Together, these two pipeline systems of GAIL carry about 60 per cent of the country's natural gas consumption, connecting multiple supply sources.

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