Assam to set up 50-MW gas-based power plant.

Two state-sector PSUs of Assam -Assam Gas Company Limited (AGCL) and Assam Power Generation Corporation Limited (APGCL) - have come forward to set up a 50-MW power plant by utilising associated gas that generally go waste in the state's oil flields, power and industry minister Pradyut Bordoloi said recently.

Estimated to cost about Rs. 300 crore, the gas-based power project will be set up in Titabor in Jorhat district, the constituency that Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi represents. The project is expected to be commissioned in two years.

The minister said Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited has agreed to sell associated gas from its oil fields in Jorhat and Golaghat districts for the project. AGCL will the lay the pipeline network for collecting the associated gas to feed the power project.

Bordoloi also said that APGCL would soon set up a solar power plant at the site in Amguri in Sivasagar district, where a gas-based power project failed to take off in the past 20 years after ONGC and Oil India Limited expressed their inability to supply the required gas for the project.

THE INDIAN EXPRESS