Great Eastern Energy
Corporation (GEECL), the Delhi based company has commissioned a natural gas
pipeline based on coal bed methane (CBM) in West Bengal. The company has
invested around Rs.350 crore till date in the first phase of the project
The 11.8 km CBM gas
pipeline today connected its gas generation centre located at Shymadih to its
central gas gathering station at Asansol in the Asansol Durgapur Development
Authority (ADDA) industrial area, 210 km west of Kolkata.
GEECL was drawing CBM
from 23 wells linked to coal beds and aims to tap 100 wells in another two years
and 300-400 wells in three years time.
The 12 km stretch of
the CBM pipeline, from Asansol to Kulti, was 99 per cent complete and will be
operational by February, while the third network link from Asansol to Durgapur
will be operational in six months.
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