With a planned gas transmission capacity of 30 MMcm/d, the trunk pipeline will extend from Dabhol, and pass through Kinjalkarvadi, Kasari river bank, Kharaklat, Tappalkatti Harva forest, Gadag, Gannaikanahalli, Gullur, Sarajapur, Palmaner, Chittoor, Kattivakkam, before terminating in Chennai.

“The $US1.1 billion pipeline will supply gas to fertiliser and power plants coming up near Bangalore and Mangalore in Karnataka and Goa,” GAIL Chairman and Managing Director B.C. Tripathi has said.

Terminals are being constructed in Gujarat, Maharashtra and Kerala to process the imported gas and the company plans to connect households in 201 cities India with piped natural gas by 2015.