CNPC to Build Gas Pipeline for India's Reliance Industries

China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) on Tuesday announced that it won a second contract to build natural gas pipeline for Indian largest private sector energy firm, Reliance Industries (RIL).

The gas pipeline will stretch 302 kilometre in length, out of which CNPC will build 200 kilometre. The pipeline will run from central India to north India.

Reliance Industries operates coal bed methane fields in central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh and it needs a pipeline to carry gas from its fields to customers in Uttar Pradesh.

Production from the project is expected to commence by 2015.

With this project, CNPC has entered Indian for the second time after eight years. In 2006, the Chinese state owned company had won its first contract to build Reliance’s pipeline that carries gas from KG-D6 to Gujarat state in western India.