Shri R P N Singh, Hon’ble Minister of State for Petroleum and Natural Gas today launched Asia’s First Integrated Gas Management System, implemented on SAP Platform, at the corporate office of GAIL (India) Limited in New Delhi. This Gas Management System is the third of its kind in the world after Petrobras in Brazil and Pemex in Mexico.
The Gas Management System will establish an integrated and enterprise wide system in place, covering GAIL’s entire pipeline network. All the information related to commercial transactions like gas volume, calorific value, consumption of gas, value of gas consumed, nominated quantity of the gas delivered, transmission tariff, price of gas, other costs and applicable taxes etc. are available on real time basis. The system will help in monitoring operational aspects of the pipeline on real time basis including information regarding network utilization, gas sales, volume transferred, revenue generation through gas sales and price variations. The system facilitates online invoicing which could be downloaded at customers’ end from the GMS portal directly, thus enabling better customer service and faster realisation.
Gas Management System will enable online receipt of nomination and revision in nomination, real time SCADA interface, daily inventory and availability of invoices to all customers online as well as through email. Further, the inbuilt system scalability will allow configuration of complex allocation rules and subsequent addition of new pipelines.
GAIL presently operated over 8,000 km trunk natural gas pipeline network in the country with a capacity to transport 160 MMSCMD of gas. The Company is implementing pipeline projects to add another 6,700 km of pipeline at an investment of Rs.30,000 crore over the next two years which will enhance the transmission capacity to around 300 MMSCMD and enable GAIL to reach out to customers in 16 states in the country.
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Source: GAIL, March 31, 2011;