Chennai, March 20: South India will start getting natural gas produced from the Krishna-Godavari basin from 2012, the Union Petroleum Secretary, Mr S. Sundareshan, told a press conference here today.

Stressing that he was “extremely concerned about (gas) pipeline connectivity to Tamil Nadu”, Mr Sundareshan said that the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas had called for a meeting of Reliance Industries Ltd (which owns the gas fields) and GAIL (India) Ltd (which lays pipelines) about 10 days ago and told them to implement the project in a “strict timeframe”.

Source : The Hindu Business Line