The government is mulling to split GAIL (India) by hiving off its pipeline business into a separate entity and selling it off to strategic investors. GAIL is India's biggest natural gas marketing and trading firm and owns more than two-thirds of the country's 16,234 km pipeline network, giving it a stranglehold on the market.
GAIL India is India’s principal Natural Gas Company with activities ranging from Gas Transmission and Marketing to Processing (for fractionating LPG, Propane, SBP Solvent and Pentane); transmission of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG); production and marketing of Petrochemicals like HDPE and LLDPE and leasing bandwidth in Telecommunications.