The Kerala State Government has put in motion proceedings to provide the land required for GAIL’s network of pipelines from the Kochi LNG Terminal.
GAIL will acquire land for the Kochi – Mangalore – Bangalore pipeline which will carry gas from the LNG terminal to industrial, transport and domestic consumers.
The pipeline will transport gas from Petronet LNG's Kochi terminal through Coimbatore to Bangalore. The project consists of 100 km offshore pipeline from Kochi to Kayamkulam designed for a capacity of 1.4 MMcm/d and an 860 km onshore portion designed for a capacity of 11 MMcm/d. The onshore portion of the pipeline passes from Kochi to Alwaye to Kanjirkod to Mangalore and Bangalore.
The total length of the Kochi - Mangalore - Bangalore pipeline is 1,110 km and it will have a capacity of 16 MMcm/d at an estimated cost of Rs 2,850 crores ($US584 million).
It is scheduled for commissioning by the end of 2010 with first gas expected by March 2010.
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