据世界天然气3月2日消息：印度国有燃料零售商BPCL表示，将在未来五年内投资160亿卢比(2.1亿美元)，在马哈拉施特拉邦的奥兰加巴德和艾迈德讷格尔区开发城市燃气项目。

公司已正式启动两个地区的城市燃气配送(CGD)网络。BPCL通过全资子公司Bharat Gas Resources在第九轮CGD招标中赢得了这两个许可证。

在前5年，计划在这两个27178平方公里的区域内铺设约30万个管道天然气(PNG)连接，100个CNG加气站，铺设350公里的钢管网。

BPCL已经开始在这两个地区铺设用于开发PNG和CNG的钢管道。该公司已经开发了21个CNG站，其中15个在Ahmednagar, 6个在Aurangabad，另外40个CNG站的建设工作正在进行中。

BPCL表示，对于工业消费者来说，奥兰加巴德的Walunj和Shendre地区以及Ahmednagar的Supa地区的连接预计将于2022年9月完成。

印度政府设定了一个愿景，要把印度打造成一个以天然气为基础的经济体。其目标是到2030年将天然气在能源结构中的份额从目前的6%提高到15%。

冯娟 摘译自 世界天然气

原文如下：

INDIA'S BPCL TO INVEST OVER $200MN IN TWO CITY GAS PROJECTS 

Indian state-owned fuel retailer BPCL will invest 16bn rupees ($210mn) over the next five years to develop city gas projects in Aurangabad and Ahmednagar districts in the state of Maharashtra, the company said March 1.

The company has officially launched the city gas distribution (CGD) networks in the two districts. BPCL won the two licences during the 9th CGD round of bidding through a wholly-owned subsidiary, Bharat Gas Resources.

During the first five years, approximately 300,000 piped natural gas (PNG) connections, 100 CNG filling stations and laying of 350 km of steel pipeline network is planned in an area of 27,178 km2 in the two districts.

BPCL has started laying steel pipelines for the development of PNG and CNG in the two districts. It has developed 21 CNG stations, 15 in Ahmednagar and six in Aurangabad, and work is in process for 40 more CNG stations to be set up in both districts.

For the industrial consumers, the connectivity in areas of Walunj and Shendre in Aurangabad and Supa in Ahmednagar is expected to be completed by September 2022, BPCL said.

The Indian government has set a vision to make India a gas-based economy. The goal is to increase the share of gas in the energy mix from the current 6% to 15% by 2030.