The East-West pipeline linking
Kakinada in Andhra Pradesh to Bharuch in Gujarat is likely to be commissioned by
June 2008.
The proposed 1,440 km pipeline, being
implemented by Reliance Gas Transportation Infrastructure (RGTIL), will evacuate
gas from Reliance Industries' block in the Krishna-Godavari (KG) basin and will
be the longest in the country. The pipeline will be tested in three phases - to
start from Bharuch in Gujarat to a section in Maharashtra and then from
Maharashtra to Karnataka and upto Kakinada where the pipeline begins.