Sunday, August 31, 2014

BPCL arm to build India s first cross-border pipeline

India's first cross-country pipeline will connect to Bangladesh. Assam-based Numaligarh Refineries Limited (NRL), a subsidiary of Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL), will shortly begin work on laying a product pipeline from Siliguri in West Bengal to Parbatipur in Bangladesh.

The pipeline would allow BPCL to penetrate the Bangladeshi market and ensure sustained supply of petroleum products to Bangladesh. The length of the pipeline would be approximately 170 km and NRL would export high speed diesel (HSD), and motor spirit to Bangladesh. BPCL also plans to lay a 1,338-km, 6-mtpa pipeline from Dhamra Port in Odisha to Numaligarh to feed the expanded refinery with imported crude oil. NRL has so far been dependent on crude from the oil fields in the north-eastern region. Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL) is an Indian state controlled oil and gas company headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra.

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