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3 unusual facts about Dabhol Power Company


Dabhol Power Company

Starting in the mid-1990s, Unocal and its partners planned to build a 1,000 mile gas pipeline from Turkmenistan to Multan, in Pakistan at a cost of about $2 billion.

In 1996 when India's Congress Party was no longer in power, the Indian government assessed the project as being excessively expensive and refused to pay for the plant and stopped construction.

Guhagar

The economy of Guhagar boomed after the Dabhol Power Company, a few kilometres north was commissioned in the early 1990s.



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