foreign blocks both exploratory or discovery. GAIL today has reached new milestones with its strategic diversification into petrochemicals, telecom and liquid hydrocarbons besides gas infrastructure. The company has also extended its presence in power, liquefied natural gas re-gasification, city gas distribution and exploration & production through participation in equity and joint ventures. Incorporating the new-found energy into its corporate identity, Gas Authority of India was renamed GAIL (India) Limited on 22 November 2002. GAIL (India) Limited has shown organic growth in gas transmission through the years by building large network of trunk pipelines covering length of around . Leveraging on the core competencies, GAIL played a key role as gas market developer in India for decades catering to major industrial sectors like power, fertilizers, and city gas distribution. GAIL transmits more than 160 million cubic metre per day at standard conditions of gas through its dedicated pipelines and have more than 70% market share in both gas transmission and marketing. Infrastructure GAIL owns the country's largest pipeline network, the cross-country 2300 km Hazira-Vijaipur-Jagdishpur pipeline with a capacity to handle 33.4 million cubic metre per day at standard conditions gas. Today the company owns and operates more than 11000 km of long cross country natural Gas Pipeline in India having a presence in 22 states in the country. It also owns and operates more than 2000 km long LPG pipelines in the country and operates one of the world's longest exclusive LPG pipeline in the country, from Jamnagar in Gujarat to Loni in Uttar Pradesh. The company also owns and operates seven mega LPG recovery plants in the country today and has to its credit almost 20% of domestic LPG produced and supplied for the domestic usage through its sisters PSUs like IOCL, BPCL and HPCL. GAIL is one of the major petrochemical conglomerates in the country today with India's largest gas based petrochemicals in operation since 1999. In petrochemicals it has its own gas based integrated petrochemical plant and also the ownership of 70% in dual fuel petrochemicals in Assam, Brahmaputra Cracker and Polymer Limited and one of the major equity partners in OPal. The company supplies gas to power plants for generation of over 4,000 MW of power to the Fertilizer plants for production of 10 million tonnes of urea and to several other industries. The regional pipelines are in Mumbai, Gujarat, Rajasthan, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Pondicherry, Assam,