The plan is to transport the gas from the east coast to the industrial heart belt of Gujarat. The plan is to transport the gas from the east coast to the industrial heart belt of Gujarat, an ONGC executive told Reuters. ONGC plans to use Reliance Industries’ 1,375 km pipeline connecting Kakinada on the east coast to Bharuch in Gujarat in the west. Shankar said ONGC is committed to bring east coast gas onstream by 2019 onwards and ramp up production to around 15 million standard cubic metres per day (mscmd). The government in February approved a plan by Reliance Industries and its partner BP to develop two new fields in the Krishna-Godavari basin.

Source: Mint April 10, 2018 12:22 UTC