GAIL (India) Limited is a US$ 9.5 billion and India’s Largest Natural Gas Company, which has a significant presence in natural gas transmission, marketing and processing, LPG transmission, petrochemicals, City Gas and E&P. GAIL possesses over 9000 km of pipeline network with a capacity of 220 MMSCMD and is laying 5000 km of new gas pipelines with a capex of nearly US$ 6 billion. GAIL has presence in Egypt and China through CGD projects and in Myanmar and USA for E&P. GAIL Global (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. has been set up for overseas investments and trading activities.
GAIL (India) Ltd was incorporated in August 1984 as a Central Public Sector Undertaking (PSU) under the Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas (MoP&NG). The company was initially given the responsibility of construction, operation & maintenance of the Hazira - Vijaypur -Jagdishpur (HVJ) pipeline Project. It was one of the largest cross-country natural gas pipeline projects in the world. Originally this 1800 Km long pipeline was built at a cost of Rs 1700 Crores and it laid the foundation for development of market for natural Gas in India.
