In this exclusive interview, Oil & Gas IQ speak with Dr. Ashutosh Karnatak, Executive Director of Projects at GAIL Ltd about pipeline expansion in India.

With the ever growing population and emerging economic spending power of South Asian countries, energy needs are increasingly on the rise.

Countries in the Indian sub-continent are progressively looking towards natural gas as a cheap and clean alternative to conventional fuels like coal, and in accordance with this, thousands of transmission pipelines are being laid to supply the demand.

In the course of his interview, Dr Karnatak touches on:

• The technicalities of GAIL’s MC³E² project management framework
• How the MC³E² framework has lead to quantifiable quality improvement
• The problems and solutions of land purchasing in the pipelines domain

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