According to Gail chairman and MD, Proshanto Banerjee, “We have achieved the completion of the DVPL project against heavy odds [and] adopted various innovative methods unprecedented in India for a line of this diameter, such as the use of automatic welding, automatic ultrasound testing, electronic geometric pigging and super drying.”
The 610 km pipeline can transport up to 23 million cubic metres of natural gas per day. It is connected at Vijaipur to the existing Hazira-Vijaipur-Jagdishpur network and the Indian National Gas Grid.