Press Releases

[New Delhi, May 14, 2005]

GAIL implements Gas Management System
(Sl. No. ND/CC/05/43)

Multiple sources to multiple end users, the gas transportation and distribution is a complex business. In a bid to simplify things, GAIL (India) Limited has successfully implemented the innovative “Gas Management System” (GMS), for the first time in India. The Web Enabled system ensures better co-ordination and total transparency and thus is a step towards advanced customer service.

GMS 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. GAIL has a network of over 5400 km of natural gas pipeline and it transports approximately 80 MMSCMD of natural gas and R-LNG through these networks.

GMS creates a common platform by integrating multiple players such as –

- The suppliers: ONGC, PLL, PMT JV, Cairn Energy, Oil India

- Shippers: IOC, BPCL

- Customers like power, fertilizer plants and other industries &

- GAIL, the transporter

The system facilitates in Contract Management, Long Term Gas Scheduling (Annual Program), Nominations between buyers and sellers, Gas allocation and delivery to customers from multiple shippers. Facilitating gas reconciliation in interconnected and independent pipeline networks, the system has interface with Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems to get daily Gas Sale and Gas Purchase data.

GMS can generate fortnightly gas invoices to APM and R-LNG customers and transportation invoices to the shippers. Extremely user-friendly, the system can be accessed by the user name and password provided to each user.

Taking advantage of the system, GAIL has doubled the supplies of regasified LNG (RLNG) through the Dahej – Vijaipur Pipe Line (DVPL) system since April 2005 to 17.5 Million Cubic Meters per Day (MMSCMD), thereby easing the overall gas availability situation to the customers along its route. This has benefited a host of customers like IFFCO, Oswal Chemical & Fertilizers Ltd., Indo Gulf Fertilizer, Chambal Fertilizers & Chemicals Ltd., Kribhco and Gujarat State Fertilizer Corporation. The 610 kms long pipeline evacuates RLNG from the Dahej LNG Import Terminal in Gujarat, runs parallel to GAIL’s existing Hazira-Vijaipur-Jagdishpur (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% of the country’s natural gas consumption, connecting multiple supply sources like ONGC’s western offshore fields, Panna-Mukta, Tapti and LNG imported from Qatar to the end consumers in the Power, Fertilizer, Petrochemicals, Industries and City Gas Distribution sectors.