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GAIL inks pact with Uttaranchal Industrial Development Corporation 

GAIL (India) Limited and State Industrial Development Corporation of Uttaranchal Ltd (SIDCUL) have entered into a Gas Cooperation MOU to jointly examine various project opportunities for natural gas in Uttaranchal and undertake development and extension of National Gas Grid to the State of Uttaranchal.

The agreement was signed by Dr. U. D. Choubey, Director (Marketing), GAIL and Shri Alok Kumar, MD (SIDCUL) today in presence of Shri Narayan Datt Tiwari, Hon’ble Chief Minister of Uttaranchal and Shri Proshanto Banerjee, Chairman and Managing Director (GAIL). 

The Gas Cooperation MOU signed between India’s largest Gas Company, GAIL under Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas and SIDCUL, a nodal agency for industrial development of Uttaranchal will facilitate development of Gas distribution infrastructure in the State. The gas cooperation agreement will initiate a joint exercise for assessment of the demand of natural gas and allied products in Uttaranchal, promote usage of Natural gas, Compressed Natural Gas (CNG), Piped Natural Gas (PNG) and Regasified Liquified Natural Gas (RLNG) in the state. This MOU will also examine the possibility for utilizing GAIL’s telecom infrastructure for connectivity across industrial conglomerates.

The first route will lay a 95 Km pipeline network to Rudrapur, Ramnagar and Haldwani from Bareilly in UP. The other route as envisaged is an extension of gas pipeline from Dadri / Noida to Haridwar and then to Dehradun after laying a pipeline of 200 Km length. As per the preliminary survey carried out by GAIL, an initial demand of 2.13 mmscmd of natural gas is projected after considering both the routes, assessing the existing industries in the region, which will increase substantially in view of increased demand in industrial, commercial, domestic and CNG sectors.

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