State-run oil Oil India Ltd (OIL), Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL), and Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited (HPCL), among others bagged the licenses for building gas infrastructure in the Northeastern states and Jammu and Kashmir under the 12th city gas distribution (CGD) bidding round.
The government has decided to spend Rs 41,000 crore to build infrastructure in six Northeastern states and two Union Territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh, said Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas Hardeep Singh Puri at an event where the letters of intent (LoI) were awarded to successful bidders.
The 12th CGD bidding round constituted 8 Geographical Areas (GAs) across 6 Northeast states – Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Manipur, Nagaland, Sikkim and Mizoram – and two Union Territories of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh. This round in totality covered 103 districts.
The winners for the GA were as follows:
1. Arunachal Pradesh- BPCL and OIL consortium
2. Meghalaya- Haryana City Gas
3. Manipur- Tripura Natural Gas Company Ltd
4. Mizoram- Tripura Natural Gas Company Ltd
5. Sikkim- HPCL and OIL
6. Nagaland- Oil India
7. Jammu and Kashmir- BPCL
8. Ladakh- BPCL