South India to get natural gas from 2012 - Business Standard

The Ministry of Petroleum had said that South India will start getting natural gas produced from the Krishna-Godavari basin (K-G basin) from 2012. A senior official from the ministry also said the production from the K-G basin will be raised to 80 million standard cubic metre per day (MSCMD) from 60 MSCMD and pipeline connectivity, to transport gas, will also be ready by 2012.

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Speaking to reporters in Chennai at Indian Oil Corporation office on Saturday, Petroleum Secretary S Sundareshan said that “10 days ago we called for a meeting of Reliance Industries Ltd (which owns the gas fields) and GAIL (India) Ltd (which lays pipelines) and discussed the time frame for the project to construct pipeline to connect southern cities with the K-G basin, and the Ministry had given “strict timeframe”.

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He added, presently K-G basin produces 60 MMSCMD of gas, which would be increased to 80 MMSCMD. “As there are other gas finds too in that basin, the production of natural gas would go up in the next 3-4 years,” said Sundareshan.

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