About Gail
GAIL (India) Ltd. (GAIL) was incorporated in August 1984 as a Central Public Sector Undertaking (PSU) under the Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas (MoP&NG), with the mission of accelerating and optimizing the effective and economic use of Natural Gas and its fractions for the benefit of the national economy. As a Public Sector Undertaking, the President of India holds more than 57% of the shares the company. GAIL (India) Limited, India’s largest Natural Gas Company is one of the seven Maharatna Public Sector Undertakings (PSUs) and the youngest PSU to be accorded Maharatna status.
The company was initially given the responsibility of construction, operation and maintenance of the 1800 Km long cross country Hazira - Vijaypur – Jagdishpur (HVJ) Natural Gas pipeline project. At that time, it was one of the largest cross-country Natural Gas pipeline projects in the world.
GAIL, having started as a Gas Transmission Company during the late eighties, has grown organically by building a large network of Natural Gas pipelines covering over 11,000 km two LPG Pipelines covering more than 2,000 km six Gas Processing plants for production of LPG and other liquid hydrocarbons, with a combined production capacity of 1.39 MMTPA, and a gas based integrated petrochemical plant of capacity 410,000 TPA of polymer, which is further being expanded to installed capacity of 810,000 TPA. The Company also has 70% equity share in Brahmaputra Cracker and Polymer Limited (BCPL) which is setting up a 280,000 TPA polymer plant in Assam. Further, GAIL is a co-promoter with 15.5% equity stake in ONGC Petro-additions Limited (OPaL) which is implementing a green field petrochemical complex of 1.4 MMTPA polymer capacity at Dahej in the State of Gujarat.