Press Releases
(New Delhi, January 6, 2006)

GAIL’s National Gas Management Centre inaugurated

New Delhi, January 6 2006 Shri Mani Shankar Aiyar, Hon’ble Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas and Panchayati Raj, Government of India today inaugurated the National Gas Management Centre (NGMC) of GAIL at NOIDA. Shri Proshanto Banerjee, Chairman and Managing Director, GAIL and other Directors on the Board of the company were present at the occasion.

National Gas Management Center, which is the first of its kind for the gas business in India, encompasses management of entire GAIL’s gas trading, transportation and LPG transmission business throughout India with the availability of live data at centralized location for monitoring pipeline parameters, delivery conditions at all major customer terminals, gas reconciliation and accounting for entire gas business.

NGMC is linked to the Management Control Center of Hazira–Vijaipur –Jagdishpur – Dahej Vijaipur pipeline (HVJ – DVPL) system, Jaipur Loni Pipeline (JLPL), Vizag Secunderabad Pipeline (VSPL) and seven Regional Gas Management Centers (RGMC’s) at Mumbai for Maharashtra, Baroda for Gujarat, Rajahmundry for Andhra Pradesh, Pondicherry for Tamil Nadu, Agra for Agra-Firozabad network, NCR O&M for National Capital Region and Agartala for Tripura.

All these Regional Gas Management Centers continuously monitor and control the gas supply quantities, quality and operational and safety aspects of the pipeline. These regional centers provide remote access to the consumers terminals and can remotely configure, control and monitor flow rate and volume of various consumers. While these Regional Gas Management Centers take care of the day-to-day operations, NGMC gives a comprehensive picture of the entire country’s gas business for taking policy decisions and overall demand supply management of the gas.

To ensure efficient real time management and gas nominations, delivery and allocation with accurate gas reconciliation, a Gas Management System (GMS) is also available in NGMC. GMS is a web enabled system, which integrates all the shippers, suppliers, customers and transporter of gas to provide better co-ordination and transparency in Gas Transportation business.

NGMC is also equipped with live data of GAIL’s LPG transmission pipelines namely JLPL and VSPL, thereby facilitating better coordination with Oil Marketing Companies regarding LPG off-take rates and monitoring of the status of pipeline parameters at different segments.

In its endeavour to become a truly global company with state-of-the-art technology in all its operations and activities, GAIL has built a nerve-centre of technological excellence which will envelope all its business needs, aptly named as GAIL INFOHUB. Apart from the National Gas Management Centre (NGMC), Infohub has - Network Management Centre (NMC), GAIL Polymer Technology Centre (GPTC), GIGALINK (IT & ERP Data Centre) and GAILTEL Marketing Office.

GAILTEL Network Management Centre is a state-of-art Network Management facility for centralized monitoring and control of GAILTEL network. The network management centre is tailor made for a robust 24X7 operation and boasts of world class facilities and features with regard to aesthetics, reliability, safety, and security. It houses high-end NMS servers in a controlled environment, which facilitates network management functions namely - Fault Management (Detection of the real-time alarms of whole network for the fault diagnosis and resolution), Configuration Management (Configuration of Customer traffic and Equipment remotely for the whole network), Performance Management (Monitoring of Quality of Service of whole network) and Security Management (Controlling and Managing the security of network).

GAIL Polymer Technology Centre offers assistance to customers through technical services, grade development, market development and knowledge sharing. GPTC also gives guidance to Polymer customers for proper selection of grades, optimization of processing parameters for enhancing Polymer resin product performance, formulation of technical specifications of Polymer grades, new development of resin applications and its promotion and technical presentation at customers’ meets/conferences. To facilitate the above activities, GPTC is equipped with a state-of-the-art resin properly evaluation facilities such as Melt Flow Tester, Density Gradient Column, Universal Tensile Machine, Izod-Charpy Tester, Dart Impact Tester, Tear Tester, Slip Tester, Haze Clarity Meter, Microscope, Climatic Chamber, ESCR, HDT-Vicat Tester, DSC & TGA Apparatus, FTIR Spectrophotometer, OIT & Flammability Tester, Lab Press & Hollow-Die-Punch, Pipe Testing Equipment and Electronic Microbalance.

GIGALINK is a state-of-the-art data centre for IT and ERP services. It is equipped with world class safety and security features. All the crucial IT and ERP servers are installed here along with hosting other IT services from the centre. Banking upon the facilities provisioned in the GIGALINK, this center not only helps GAIL to provide 24X7 IT services to all the customers, both internal and external, with higher Service Level Agreement (SLAs) but also enables a better working environment for the IT executives.

In order to break the monotony of computer related work and also to encourage the employees towards the path of good health and habits, the building also houses facilities of a gymnasium and a cafeteria. The Gymnasium (Fit Bit) has been provided with latest gadgets and the facilities in Cafeteria (Bits & Bytes) are of international standards.