Two sections of the Ennore-Tiruvallur-Bengaluru-Puducherry-Nagapattinam-Madurai-Thoothukudi natural gas pipeline, from Tiruvallur to Bengaluru (270 km) and Ennore to Chengalpattu (115 km), are nearing completion. The line to Bengaluru is a loop line and will supply gas from the Ennore liquid natural gas (LNG) terminal to that city.
Sources in Indian Oil Corporation’s pipeline division said the pipelines on most stretches ran as part of the existing lines carrying other petroleum products. “We did not require much land since we used the land available in our right of way,” explained a source.
“Once the Chengalpattu stretch is commissioned, the supply of R-LNG (regassified–liquid natural gas), as it is correctly known, will commence to industrial consumers at Oragadam and Sriperumbudur. Supply of natural gas would bring down the reliance of units on LPG, which is costlier. Already companies involved in distribution of natural gas to households and industries are laying pipelines to these places,” another source explained.
