Reliance to Lay CBM Pipeline

Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) is expected to lay a 312-km pipeline to transport coal bed methane (CBM) gas produced from the company’s Shogapur block in Madhya Pradesh to Phulpur in Uttar Pradesh.

The Petroleum and Natural Gas Regulatory Board (PNGRB) issued the necessary authorisation on July 11 to Reliance Gas Transportation Infrastructure Ltd. (RGPL), an arm of RIL, to lay the pipeline, which will have a capacity to transport 4.3 million metric standard cubic metres per day (mmscmd) of gas, including 0.875 mmscmd which will be available for any third-party for open access on non-discriminatory basis, The Hindu newspaper reported.

At Phulpur, the pipeline may be hooked to GAIL India’s main Hazira-Vijaypur-Jagdishpur (HVJ) trunk gas pipeline. This would enable gas to flow to any consumer, The Hindu said.

RIL plans to produce 3.5 mmscmd of gas from its Sohagpur (East) and Sohagpur (West) CBM blocks in Shahdol from 2015.