Gujarat Gas Company (GGCL) has received a license from Petroleum and Natural Gas Regulatory Board (PNGRB) to retail CNG to automobiles and piped cooking gas to households in Bhavnagar in Gujarat. The company can lay pipelines to transport gas and set up retail stations for selling compressed natural gas (CNG) in an area of 8,153 square km.
Gujarat Gas, a 65.12 per cent subsidiary of BG Asia, is India’s largest private sector natural gas distribution company in terms of sales volumes, with operations in Gujarat. The company distributes natural gas to domestic, commercial and industrial consumers, and compressed natural gas as automobile fuel, in the cities of Surat, Ankleshwar, Bharuch, and surrounding areas.