GAIL, Essar Oil head for W Bengal in hunt for gas
“This can supply the industry with the cheapest form of fuel and there is huge demand for it,” Nasir said.
GAIL director AK Pal said the company has embarked on a study for excavating gas from the coastal belt between Haldia and Digha. It was planning to set up a floating gasification terminal in the area.
Pal said that the study was expected to be completed in 3-5 months, after which GAIL would finalise the floating terminal project.
While Essar has already finalised an investment plan of R3,000-crore for the first phase, GAIL has estimated a R2,000-crore investment for the floating gasification project, though it is yet to finalise it. Pal said the findings in Bengal’s coastal belt could substitute KG Basin gas, and that much of the R7,600-crore Haldia-Jagdishpur pipeline’s fate depended on it.
GAIL planned the 2,050-km long Haldia (West Bengal)-Jagdishpur (Uttar Pradesh) pipeline on the basis of KG Basin findings. But uncertainties around getting gas from the KG Basin have brought the pipeline project to a halt.
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