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GAIL celebrates ‘Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav’ by holding plantation drives

New Delhi, June 10, 2022: As part of the ‘Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav’ (AKAM) celebrations, GAIL (India) Limited participated in a mega plantation drive carried out by Central Public Sector Enterprises across the country.

With the aim of raising awareness about the importance of living in harmony with nature, GAIL carried out plantation drives at its Pata and Vijaipur townships as well as other locations. As part of this, 2,500 were planted in Pata (Uttar Pradesh) and 1,600 across Vijaipur township areas (Madhya Pradesh) alone. Shri Manoj Jain, CMD, GAIL and Shri Deepak Gupta, Director (Projects) were also present on the occasion in the enthusiastic participation of GAIL employees in the plantation drive at Vijaipur to commemorate AKAM.

Banners and communications were also displayed at prominent locations in these places to create awareness among the employees and other stakeholders. Plants were distributed to all employees across GAIL offices during World Environment Day.

The CPSEs are planting 75,000 saplings across locations such as their townships, residential colonies, offices, production units, etc as part of the AKAM drive.

GAIL is India’s leading natural gas company with diversified interests across the natural gas value chain of trading, transmission, LPG production & transmission, LNG re-gasification, petrochemicals, city gas, E&P, etc. GAIL has been playing a significant role in ‘Energizing Possibilities’ for a cleaner environment and sustainable living, with ‘Environmental Responsibility’ being one of the core elements of its vision statement.

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Natural gas supply reaches HMEL Refinery, Gas Receiving Station inaugurated at Bathinda

Bathinda (Punjab), May 21, 2022: Taking a major step to ensure availability of natural gas for large customers, GAIL (India) Limited has laid a dedicated pipeline to supply the fuel to HPCL Mittal Energy Ltd.’s (HMEL) refinery here.

The Gas Receiving Station for the pipeline was inaugurated today by Shri Prabh Das, Managing Director and CEO, HMEL in the presence of Shri Manoj Jain, Chairman & Managing Director, GAIL, Ms Vartika Shukla, Chairman & Managing Director, Engineers India Limited and Shri Deepak Gupta, Director (Projects), GAIL.

The dedicated pipeline, which will supply 1 MMSCMD gas to HMEL, has been laid at a cost of Rs 142 crore. The 44.26 Km pipeline of 12 inch diameter (total capacity - 5 MMSCMD) is a spur line of the 500 Km Dadri - Bawana - Nangal Pipeline (DBNPL). The natural gas supply tap off is taken from GAIL receiving terminal at NFL, Bathinda.

The DBNPL is a part of the National Gas Grid and runs from Dadri (Uttar Pradesh) through Yamunanagar (Haryana) to Nangal (Punjab), to meet energy demand of these northern states. The pipeline will boost the supply of natural gas in the region, resulting in increased supply for domestic households, vehicles, commercial and industrial establishments. It already supplies gas to various industrial customers and city gas networks, i.e., IGL Ghaziabad, Bawana, Saharanpur, Yamunanagar and Mandigovindgarh, Nangal, Ludhiana, NFL Bhatinda, CGS Ludhiana, etc.