Driving Digital Innovation in City Gas: ABB India, THINK Gas Announce Strategic Partnership

New Delhi, July 30, 2025: ABB India has successfully commissioned its ABB Ability SCADAvantage solution for THINK Gas Pvt Ltd (formerly AG&P Pratham), enabling end-to-end automation and digitalisation of their City Gas Distribution (CGD) network spanning 10 states.

The network spans 19 geographical areas across Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Himachal Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Punjab, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and Tamil Nadu, comprising 500-plus CNG stations, approximately 5,50,000 registered DPNG connections and around 17,000 km of steel pipeline connecting industrial and commercial establishments.

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

“At THINK Gas, we always aim to be at the forefront in adopting global best practices in safety processes, leveraging cutting-edge technology and building robust infrastructure to deliver natural gas to our customers while catering to their diverse energy needs. We are proud to partner with ABB India on this transformative project, ensuring a secure energy supply for millions of Indians,” said Chiradeep Datta, COO, THINK Gas.

“By digitalising and centralising our natural gas distribution networks, we have significantly boosted operational efficiency, optimised manpower requirement and leveraged real-time data to make better decisions.”

ABB’s SCADAvantage centralises and controls the natural gas distribution networks, ensuring efficient energy distribution from the source to end-users. The platform enables centralised 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 60 per cent. Since implementation, the solution has led to improved process times, enhanced responsiveness and greater control of operational parameters across the CGD network.

“As India scales up its energy initiatives in step with the increasing demand, ABB technology solutions like SCADAvantage are set to play an important role in achieving operational excellence across the country’s energy value chain,” said G Balaji, SVP, Energy Industries, ABB India.

“We are proud to lead this effort, having automated and digitalised 80 per cent of the country’s City Gas Distribution networks.”

India has announced a commitment to increase natural gas usage, as part of its wider energy mix, to 15 per cent 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.