Date:08/04/2007 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2007/04/08/stories/2007040805050600.htm

Andhra Pradesh

Reliance to supply gas at lower rate

A. Saye Sekhar

HYDERABAD: Reliance Industries Ltd will supply gas through pipelines at much lesser cost as compared to the LPG cylinders, once its city gas network is in place.

While a 14.2 kg (net weight) gas cylinder costs Rs. 300, excluding the Government subsidy of more than Rs. 125, RIL can supply the same quantity of gas for Rs. 200 to Rs. 220, President and Chief Executive Officer of RIL P.M.S. Prasad told visiting journalists from Hyderabad on Friday at Mumbai.

Mr. Prasad said that the RIL, which had already commenced the laying of its trunk lines on the East-West pipeline network from the KG Basin, would complete the work by June 2008.