GAIL rises on plan to buy 5% stake in consortium building TAPI gas pipeline

28 Dec 2015 Evaluate

GAIL (India) is currently trading at Rs. 364.25, up by 2.00 points or 0.55% from its previous closing of Rs. 362.25 on the BSE.

The scrip opened at Rs. 364.95 and has touched a high and low of Rs. 372.40 and Rs. 362.65 respectively. So far 57292 shares were traded on the counter.

The BSE group 'A' stock of face value Rs. 10 has touched a 52 week high of Rs. 451.00 on 05-Jan-2015 and a 52 week low of Rs. 260.25 on 25-Aug-2015.

Last one week high and low of the scrip stood at Rs. 372.40 and Rs. 332.50 respectively. The current market cap of the company is Rs. 46616.54 crore.

The promoters holding in the company stood at 56.11%, while Institutions and Non-Institutions held 40.25% and 2.51% respectively.

State-owned GAIL India is planning to buy 5% stake in the international consortium building the $8.7 billion Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) gas pipeline.

Turkmenistan’s state-owned TurkmenGaz will be the leader of the consortium and shall take 85% stake, while India will be represented by GAIL, which will take a 5% interest. Further, ISGS of Pakistan and Afghan Gas Enterprise (AGE) will also take 5% stake each.

The TAPI pipeline will have a capacity to carry 90 million standard cubic metres a day (mmscmd) gas for 30 years and is planned to become operational in 2018. India and Pakistan were originally to get 38 mmscmd each while the remaining 14 mmscmd was to be supplied to Afghanistan.

GAIL is India’s flagship natural gas company integrating all aspects of the natural gas value chain including exploration and production, processing, transmission, distribution and marketing and related services.

 

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