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Online portal for carrier capacity booking on GAIL’s pipelines unveiled

The portal is one of its kind in the natural gas sector in India to provide gas consumers a facility to register pipeline capacity bookings online

GN Bureau | September 5, 2018

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To facilitate gas trading on hub or exchange traded platforms in India, minister for petroleum and natural gas Dharmendra Pradhan recently unveiled an online portal to enable easy, efficient and transparent booking of common carrier capacity for natural gas transmission services under GAIL’s pipelines.

The portal operates within the regulatory framework and is the first of its kind in the natural gas sector in India to provide gas consumers a facility to register pipeline capacity bookings online.

GAIL CMD, B C Tripathi said, “With this initiative, GAIL has raised the standards of consumer experience for third-party access to natural gas pipelines to consumers in India. GAIL has been providing third party access to pipelines since 2004 and over 100-150 consumers small and large are routinely being serviced at any time, during the last few years”.

Gas trading entities such as IOCL, BPCL, RIL, GSPC and consumers such as- CFCL, NFL, IFFCO, KRIBHCO, Jindal Aluminium, Toyota Kirloskar, Suzuki Motorcycle, Tata Ceramics, Hindalco have been availing the pipeline transmission services as third party users of capacities on GAIL’s pipeline networks.

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