ABB India and THINK Gas announce strategic partnership

ABB India Ltd has successfully commissioned its ABB Ability™ SCADAvantage solution for THINK Gas Pvt. Ltd. (formerly AG&P Pratham), enabling end-to-end automation and digitalization of their City Gas Distribution (CGD) network spanning ten Indian states. The network spans 19 Geographical Areas (GAs) across Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Himachal Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Punjab, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, and Tamil Nadu, comprising 500+ CNG stations, approximately 5,50,000 registered DPNG connections, and around 17,000 inch-km of steel pipeline connecting industrial and commercial establishments.

Using ABB’s cloud-based automation platform, THINK Gas has centralized operations and real-time visibility of its CGD networks from its control room in Chennai.

ABB’s SCADAvantage centralizes and controls the natural gas distribution networks, ensuring efficient energy distribution from the source to end users. The platform enables centralized price management and billing, helps in gas planning and gas reconciliation, pressure and flow control, and improves data accuracy and integrity. With the help of ABB, THINK Gas says it was able to significantly reduce natural gas distribution operational costs, especially operator costs by up to 60 percent. Since implementation, the solution has led to improved process times, enhanced responsiveness and greater control of operational parameters across the CGD network.

India has announced a commitment to increase natural gas usage, as part of its wider energy mix, to 15 percent by 2030. The country has witnessed expansion in its CGD infrastructure over the past decade, supporting the supply of cooking fuel like Piped Natural Gas to households, industrial and commercial units as well as transportation fuel like CNG to vehicles.

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