Barauni-Guwahati Gas Pipeline:

The Barauni-Guwahati pipeline area executed on a capital cost of Rs 3,300 crore is an

indispensable piece of the renowned 3,405 km-long JHBDPL venture, prominently known as
'Pradhan Mantri Urja Ganga', executed by GAIL, and visualizes to associate eastern and north-
eastern India to the current petroleum gas network. This task is wanted to cover eastern Uttar
Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, West Bengal, Odisha and Assam. GAIL authorities said that
JHBDPL venture is advancing going all out and the principal stage is planned for consummation
by December 2018.The task will usher modern improvement in eastern piece of India by
providing ecologically clean petroleum gas to manure units, control plants, refineries, steel
preparing plants and different businesses. It will likewise give clean vitality to family units and
transportation through the city gas appropriation arranges through the pipeline. City Gas
appropriation ventures have been authorized at Varanasi, Bhubaneswar and Cuttack while
venture exercises are in advancement at different urban areas of eastern India. GAIL (India)
Limited has granted the principal contract for buy of 108 km 24-inch breadth line pipes under the
Barauni-Guwahati section of the Jagdishpur-Haldia and Bokaro-Dhamra Natural Gas Pipeline
(JHBDPL) venture. The agreement for buy of line channels of 108 km was granted to M/s
Ratnamani at a complete expense of Rs 125 crore. Line pipe acquisition exercises for whatever is
left of the 600 km trunkline up to Guwahati is at a propelled phase of delicate procedure, a senior
authority of the M/s Ratnamani said on Thursday.

Point of view of various Stakeholders:

Assam Gas, a state government venture, has presented an outflow important to the Petroleum and
Natural Gas Regulatory Board (PNGRB), the downstream controller, to lay, form and work the
pipeline from Barauni in Bihar to Guwahati by means of Bongaigaon.

It has likewise proposed to construct goad lines to interface both the banks of the waterway
Brahmaputra to associate with Arunachal Pradesh and Nagaland. Another goad line is proposed
to interface with Tripura through Meghalaya and Barak Valley.

PNGRB has now started a conference procedure and looked for perspectives from all partners on
the proposed pipeline.

The interest for petroleum gas in its operational region far surpasses the current supply, Assam
Gas said in its proposition, featuring that it had distinguished an extra interest of somewhere
around 13 million metric standard cubic meters every day (mmscmd) in Assam. The organization
at present handles about 5.5 mmscmd of flammable gas.

"In the event that gas is made accessible, the interest will increment as new potential customers
are setting up units as a major aspect of the legislature of Assam's endeavors to invigorate
mechanical development. As there has been no huge new gas finds in the north-eastern locale, it
is important to get gas from outside the district," the organization said.
It further stated, "The organization is completely equipped for preparing assets, has the essential
experience and mastery and has the help of the administration of Assam at the most elevated
amounts to execute the undertaking."

The proposed pipeline will have a limit of 15 mmscmd and will source gas at Barauni from
Jagdishpur-Haldia pipeline being worked by GAIL.

State-run GAIL is building a 2,620-km gas pipeline from Jagdishpur in Uttar Pradesh to Haldia
in West Bengal, Bokaro in Jharkhand and Dhamra in Odisha. The pipeline will have the ability
to transport 16 mmscmd of gas, which is required to be gotten from various sources including
melted petroleum gas or LNG from import terminals at Dahej, Dabhol and Dhamra, and coal bed
methane field of Reliance Industries in Madhya Pradesh.

The proposed pipelines of Assam Gas, GAIL and different organizations are required to
essentially upgrade the nation's gas pipeline arrange. The administration expects to twofold the
gas pipeline system to 30,000 km in the following couple of years.

Opinion from the point of view of a Proposer:

One of the objectives of this Vision is transition towards use of sustainable forms of energy by
developing a natural gas grid and CNG highways that will inter-connect the states in the ~orth
East Region (NER) as well as with National Gas Grid (NGG), which will increase consumption
of Natural Gas as a fuel of choice. Presently, around 950 Km of Natural Gas Pipelines are
opera~ing in North East India, covering parts of key demand centres such as Assam and TI-
ripura. Further, it was deliberated in the Vision Document that Barauni is already bleing
connected to the NGG the Jagdishpur-Barauni Pipeline and hence laying a pipellne from Barauni
to the rest of North East India will connect NER with NGG at Barauni.

Opinion from the point of view of an Independent Consulting Firm:

A 750-km proposed flammable gas pipeline will connect the Northeast with the national matrix
to meet expanding fuel needs of family units and processing plants in the locale, as a feature of
the Modi government's arrangement to extend gas accessibility and twofold the gas pipeline
organize in the following couple of years. The system is proposed to traverse 800-900 km and is
required to cost Rs 3,600-4,050 crore. When finished, every single key ga request supply focuses
in the area will be associated. Be that as it may, the task is monetarily non-reasonable and still to
take off. Other than associating the Northeast to the national gas framework, the gas-delivering
station should be associated with other interest focuses. As Mizoram and Tripura will represent
main part of gas generation, it is basic to interface these two states on a need premise. Further, as
Barauni is as of now being associated with the national gas framework through Jagdishpur-
Barauni pipeline, it bodes well to propose pipeline from Barauni to whatever remains of the
Northeast.