The Dabhol – Bangalore Natural Gas Pipeline is a natural gas pipeline running from
Dabhol
Dabhol (Marathi pronunciation: Help:IPA/Marathi, ̪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 Vashishti River, Vashishth ...
,
Maharashtra
Maharashtra () is a state in the western peninsular region of India occupying a substantial portion of the Deccan Plateau. It is bordered by the Arabian Sea to the west, the Indian states of Karnataka and Goa to the south, Telangana to th ...
to
Bangalore
Bengaluru, also known as Bangalore (List of renamed places in India#Karnataka, its official name until 1 November 2014), is the Capital city, capital and largest city of the southern States and union territories of India, Indian state of Kar ...
, Karnataka. It was commissioned on 3 December 2013 during the inaugural ceremony of the 8th
Asia Gas Partnership Summit (AGPS). This project connected
South India
South India, also known as Southern India or Peninsular India, is the southern part of the Deccan Peninsula in India encompassing the states of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Telangana as well as the union territories of ...
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
standard conditions
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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 in India 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 ...
. 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
GAIL
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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.
See also
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Mumbai-Bangalore economic corridor
References
External links
Company website
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Energy in Maharashtra
Energy in Karnataka
Natural gas pipelines in India
Energy infrastructure completed in 2013
2013 establishments in Maharashtra
2013 establishments in Karnataka