GAIL India, Pak firm to ink gas accord

 

NEW DELHI - The Indian state-run gas utility, GAIL India, will enter into a contract with a Pakistani firm to export natural gas through a pipeline from Punjab, Minister of State for Petroleum and Natural Gas Panabaaka Lakshmi told the Lok Sabha.GAIL plans to import gas in its liquid form called liquefied natural gas on a port in Gujarat or Maharashtra.

 

After converting this again into gaseous state, it will transport the gas through cross-country pipeline network to Jalandhar. From Jalandhar, a 110-km line is proposed to be laid to the international border near Wagah for delivery to Pakistan.

 

“GAIL will enter into the necessary contract for export of regassified-LNG with its Pakistani counterpart based on import of LNG at Petronet’s Dahej (import facility in Gujarat) or Dabhol LNG terminal (in Maharashtra),” she said in a written reply to a question in Lok Sabha. .pakistantoday.com.