The Dabhol – Bangalore Natural Gas Pipeline is a natural gas pipeline running from

Dabhol Dabhol (Marathi pronunciation: ̪aːbʱoɭ, also known as Dabul, is a small seaport town in the Ratnagiri district of Maharashtra in India. It is located on the northern and southern sides of the Vashishthi river that later flows by Chiplun ...

, Maharashtra to

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. It was commissioned on 3 December 2013 during the inaugural ceremony of the 8th Asia Gas Partnership Summit (AGPS). This project connected

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to the national gas grid for the first time. The project was constructed in a period of 19 months at an investment of with a design capacity of 16 million cubic metre per day at

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of natural gas which can produce 3,000 MW of electric power.

Challenges

Engineering

The pipeline crosses Asia's largest river crossing in rocky terrain at

Ghatprabha The Ghataprabha river is an important right-bank tributary of the Krishna River and flows eastward for a distance of 283 kilometers before its confluence with the Krishna River at Chikksangam. The river basin is 8,829 square kilometers wide and ...

. The construction involved pipeline laying in some of the world's steepest slopes of 60 to 70 degrees and sharp elevations of up to 700 meters in a 3.5 km stretch. there are no other pipeline said by Neetu singh.

Financial

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compensated the farmers for their land taken by the company for the pipeline project by paying 5 times more than the actual value.

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External links

Company website
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Challenges

Engineering

Financial

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