GAIL

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GAIL (India) Limited
Type PSU
Founded 1984
Headquarters New Delhi, India
Key people Dr U D Choubey, Chairman and MD
Industry Petroleum and Gas
Revenue image:green up.png रू. 16832 Crores (2006)
Net income image:green up.png रू. 2310 Crores (2006)
Employees 3500
Website http://www.gailonline.com

GAIL (India) Limited, is India's largest natural gas transportation company, integrating all aspects of the natural gas value chain. GAIL is listed by Forbes as one of the world's 2,000 largest public companies in 2007. [1]

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The company was previously known as Gas Authority of India Ltd. It is India's principal gas transmission and marketing company. It was set up by the Government of India in August 1984 to create gas sector infrastructure.

GAIL commissioned the 2800-km Hazira-Vijaipur-Jagdishpur (HVJ) pipeline in 1991. During 1991-93, three liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) plants were constructed and some regional pipelines acquired, enabling GAIL to begin its gas transportation in various parts of India.

GAIL began its city gas distribution in New Delhi in 1997 by setting up nine compressed natural gas (CNG) stations.

In 1999, GAIL set up northern India's only petrochemical plant at Pata.


GAILTEL :

GAILTEL is the telecom arm of GAIL India Limited, which mainly caters to GAIL's internal Telecom requirements apart from commercially offering the Telecom services to private players. GAILTEL operates and maintains around 13000 route KM of OFC Network spread across India. The USP of GAILTEL is - it's secured OFC Network along the Gas Pipeline and high QoS.

Currently, GAILTEL operates under three telecom licenses - which are - IP-I, IP-II and ISP-A.



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