On 31 May 2007, Chief Minister of
Gujarat, Mr.Narendra Modi inaugurated Gujarat State Petronet's 30-inch, 128-km
Surat-Vapi gas pipeline to provide transmission services to major markets in Gujarat
from various supply sources.
These include GSPC's Niko fields in
Hazira, the Panna-Mukta-Tapti joint venture fields at Bombay High, Shell's LNG
Terminal at Hazira, Cairn's field at Suvali and the PLL-LNG Terminal at Dahej.
GSPL has planned to lay nearly 2,200
km of pipelines under the gas grid project. Currently, GSPL has a pipeline
network of 1,200 km and supplies gas to 26 customers in industrial cities. In
addition, it is constructing a 30-inch, 1100-km Rajkot-Jamnagar pipeline, along
with the 24-inch, 250-km Dharod-Pipavav, 2500-km Morbi-Mundra and 120-km
Mehsana-Palanpur pipelines.
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