GAIL trades in green on the bourses

19 Mar 2013 Evaluate

GAIL is currently trading at Rs. 318.35, up by 4.50 points or 1.43% from its previous closing of Rs. 313.85 on the BSE.

The scrip opened at Rs. 315.00 and has touched a high and low of Rs. 321.00 and Rs. 314.00 respectively. So far 51,000 shares were traded on the counter.

The BSE group 'A' stock of face value Rs. 10 has touched a 52 week high of Rs. 396.00 on 05-Oct-2012 and a 52 week low of Rs. 303.10 on 18-May-2012.

Last one week high and low of the scrip stood at Rs. 349.20 and Rs. 313.20 respectively. The current market cap of the company is Rs. 40,381 crore.

The promoters holding in the company stood at 57.34% while Institutions and Non-Institutions held 38.76% and 2.93% respectively.

GAIL India commissioned a Rs 4,500 crore pipeline carrying gas from the just operationalised Dabhol LNG terminal into Bengaluru that promises to change the energy landscape of the region. The 1,000-km pipeline will feed industries at Belgaum, Dharwad, Gadag, Bellary, Davanagere, Chitradurga, Tumkuyr, Ramanagaram and Bengaluru who have till now been using costlier and polluting liquid fuels like naphtha and diesel as feedstock. Gas will help the state power generation utility save Rs 800 crore annually by reducing cost, improving efficiency and drastically cutting down pollution caused by using liquid fuels. The pipeline will be extended to Mangalore this year and further to Kochi in Kerala by end of next year.

Gas in its liquid form, or liquefied natural gas (LNG), imported at the just commissioned Dabhol terminal in Maharasthra would fire industries in Karnataka. GAIL commenced supply of gas through the line to its first customer Toyota Kirloskar Auto Parts. The Dabhol-Bengaluru pipeline has a capacity to carry 16 million standard cubic meters of gas per day, 73-km of line have been laid in Bengaluru city that would help in beginning CNG supplies to automobiles as well as piped cooking gas to households. GAIL also signed an agreement to supply 0.6 million tonnes of LNG to Karnataka Power Corp's proposed 1,400 MW Bidadi power plant. The firm is planning a massive expansion of its 10,000 km of pipeline network with 3,000 km of lines under execution and another 2,000 km on drawing board, which would take up the transmission capacity to 350-400 million standard cubic meters per day.

GAIL India Share Price

170.00 -0.55 (-0.32%)
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Peers
Company Name CMP
GAIL India 170.00
Gujarat Gas 406.50
Indraprastha Gas 191.65
Mahanagar Gas 1169.75
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