Adani bags CGD contracts for 22 locations; becomes largest private city gas player
Adani Gas Ltd, the City Gas Distribution (CGD) arm of the Ahmedabad-based Adani Group, today announced it has become the largest private sector CGD player in the country by bagging authorization to expand footprint in 13 new Geographical Areas (GAs) as part of the ninth round of bidding conducted by downstream oil sector regulator. In addition, the company’s joint venture with Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) – Indian Oil Adani Gas Ltd (IOAGL) — has won nine GAs under the bidding conducted by Petroleum and Natural Gas Regulatory Board (PNGRB). Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to lay the foundation stone for CGD projects in 65 GAs covering 129 districts on Thursday. “We endeavor to utilize our decade-long experience and CGD expertise to expeditiously develop these new geographical areas to provide gas to consumers in an economic, reliable and safe manner using the state-of-the-art technology and automation tools,” said Pranav Adani, Managing Director, Agro, Oil and Gas, Adani Group. Adani Gas is currently operating CGD networks at four locations including Ahmedabad, Baroda, Faridabad and Khurja. Its joint venture with IOC is currently running CGD networks at Prayagraj, Chandigarh, Panipat, Udham Singh Nagar, Daman, Dharwad, Ernakulam, South Goa and Bulandshahr. With the government planning to offer additional geographical areas for gas distribution in the tenth round involving 50 GAs comprising 123 districts coupled with rapid urbanization, AGL is on track to become one of the largest private sector CGD companies of the world, the firm said in a statement. Adani Gas would provide around 23 lakh domestic Piped Natural Gas (PNG) connections and install around 500 Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) stations in the 13 new GAs. The 13 GAs for which the company has received authorization include Surendranagar District, Kheda, Morbi, Mahisagar, Porbandar, Barwala & Ranpur Talukas, Navsari, Surat, Tapi and Dangs districts, except areas already authorized at these locations. The other GAs bagged by the firm include locations in Haryana, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Rajasthan and Odisha.
Five districts to get cooking gas through pipes in Himachal Pradesh
On the line of metro cities, domestic consumers of six districts in Himachal Pradesh would be getting piped gas supplied into their homes in coming days. On this project Rs 600 crore would be spent and it would provide employment to around 7,000 people. Foundation stone of this project would be laid on Thursday by Prime Minister Narendra Modi from Delhi and chief minister Jai Ram Thakur from Shimla. The whole project would be implemented in the districts of Shimla, Solan, Sirmaur, Una, Hamirpur and Bilaspur, where around 55 piped natural gas (PNG) stations would be set up by Indian Oil and Bharat Petroleum. While interacting with mediapersons in Shimla on Tuesday, Indian Oil’s Subodh Vajpayee and Sanjeev Kumar said that natural gas project in Himachal Pradesh had been divided into two groups. In first group districts of Shimla, Sirmaur and Solan would be covered, while in second group districts of Bilaspur, Hamirpur and Una would get the supply. They said work on first group was allotted to joint venture of Indian Oil and Adani Gas Private Limited under which 45 PNG stations would be set up to provide cooking gas connections to 33,000 consumers.