Long Term Capacity Planning of Natural Gas Distribution in India

As per a vision 2030 report published by the PNGRB, a stage-wise development of nationwide Natural Gas (NG) distribution infrastructure has been planned for next two decades. Region-wise demand projections for each year are predicted and commensurate supply projections are also planned. New capacity is planned to be built in regions not covered so far along with capacity enhancement in existing infrastructure. We propose a multi-objective optimization model to aid in planning capacity development in the national distribution infrastructure at a strategic level. The aim of the model is to investigate scenarios having varying trade-offs between minimizing expansion cost and minimizing the gap between demand and supply.