Reliance Industries (RIL)
plans to invest Rs.5,000 crore in setting up city gas distribution networks in
Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra.
The company will implement these
projects in eight major clusters under a joint venture with Andhra Pradesh and
Maharashtra and is awaiting for state government approval to lay, build and
operate local natural gas distribution networks along the corridor of its
East-West gas pipeline.
The gas for these projects will be
supplied from the company's KG basin fields by laying spur lines to these
cities. The initial estimated requirement of gas for these projects is estimated
at 8 mmscmd.
Spur lines for these projects will be
laid by 2008-09 and this alone will cost the company Rs.900 crore.
The eight cities where local gas
distribution networks will be established are as follows:
Andhra Pradesh
- Vishakhapatnam (1 mmscmd)
- Kakinada (0.4 mmscmd)
- Vijaiwada (0.8 mmscmd)
- Nalgonda (0.3 mmscmd)
- Hyderabad (1.2 mmscmd)
Maharashtra
- Sholapur (0.4 mmscmd)
- Pune (1 mmscmd)
- Thane (3 mmscmd)