India to build diesel, gas pipelines to Bangladesh
India will assemble pipelines to convey diesel and natural gas to Bangladesh as the world’s third biggest vitality shopper hopes to fortify ties with the neighbor.
While a 131-km pipeline will be laid from Siliguri in West Bengal to Parbatipur in northern Bangladesh to transport diesel, a line from Dattapulia in West Bengal will take flammable gas to Khulna, the third-biggest city of Bangladesh.
Oil Secretary K D Tripathi today said the pipelines are a piece of a non-restricting Framework of Understanding (FoU) which India will go into with Bangladesh for participation in the hydrocarbon segment.
The Cabinet had yesterday affirmed consenting to of the arrangement to set up an institutional structure instrument for encouraging and improving India-Bangladesh reciprocal collaboration in the hydrocarbon part, he told columnists here.
As a feature of the participation, India is taking a gander at setting up a condensed petroleum gas (LNG) import terminal in Bangladesh, providing diesel from Numaligarh Refineries Ltd and offering LPG, he said. Sunjay Sudhir, Joint Secretary (International Cooperation) in the Ministry, said amid the visit of the Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheik Hasina that a 15-year consent to supply diesel to Bangladesh was agreed upon.
In the first place, diesel will be provided through prepare, moving one rake containing approximately 2,200 ton fuel from Numaligarh Refinery’s Siliguri terminal to Parbitipur station of Bangladesh Petroleum Corp (BPC), he said.
Till July one rake for every month will be moved and from that point two rakes a month will travel somewhere in the range of 516 km – 253 km in India and 263 km in Bangladesh – on a current rail line to transport diesel. He said India will bear the cost of laying the Indo-Bangla Friendship pipeline from Siliguri to Parbatipur, with a conveying limit of 1 million tons of fuel a year.
Likewise, India is taking a gander at providing gas to Bangladesh, he said. Under the proposition, LNG will be foreign made at the under-development Dharma terminal in Odisha and gas transported through pipeline up to Dattapulia in West Bengal. A 70-km pipeline will be laid to Khulna for moving the gas.
Tripathi said a MoU for Petronet LNG Ltd to set up a Rs 5,000 crore LNG import terminal at Kutubdia islands in Bangladesh has likewise been marked amid Hasina’s visit. Petronet was one of the five worldwide vitality firms shortlisted for setting up the 3.5 million ton LNG import terminal.
The others shortlisted included Anglo-Dutch super-significant Shell, China’s Huanqiu Contracting and Engineering, Tractebel Engineering of Belgium and Japan’s Mitsui. Indian Oil Corp (IOC) is hoping to transport LPG to north eastern states by means of Bangladesh.
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