RGTIL to commission four pipelines in 2013-14

Reliance Gas Transportation and Infrastructure Ltd. (RGTIL), a company promoted by Mukesh Ambani to transport gas from KG Basin, will complete four gas pipelines in next two years. These pipelines are:

• 928 km long Kakinada-Vasudevpur-Haldia pipeline with a design capacity of 26.7 mmscmd
• 577 km long Kakinada-Chennai pipeline with a design capacity of 26.7 mmscmd
• 538 km long Chennai-Bangalore-Mangalore pipeline with a design capacity of 13.3 mmscmd
• 585 km long Chennai-Tuticorin pipeline with a design capacity of 13.3 mmscmd

All four pipelines will be commissioned in 2013-14. Presently the company has commissioned just one pipeline, 1385 km long East-West pipeline, connecting Kakinada-Hyderabad-Uran-Ahemdabad. This pipeline was commissioned in April 2009.