Prime Minister Narendra Modi would lay the foundation stones of Indian Oil’s 1212-km Paradip-Hyderabad pipeline project and the GAIL’s Bokaro-Angul section of the Jagdishpur-Haldia and Bokaro- Dhamra Pipeline (JHBDPL) during his visit to IIT, Bhubaneswar on December 24, announced IOCL and GAIL India at a press meet here on Friday.
Indian Oil SERPL ED PC Chauby and CGM I/C Pritish Bharat and GAIL CGM SK Pathak and IOCL Corporate Communications Senior Manager Srinivash Patra address the Press meet.
The total project cost of these two pipeline projects would be Rs 7,200 crore and will be completed in two years.
Chauby said delivery of petroleum products to important consumption centres in the region will be achieved in a safer, more reliable, environment-friendly and cost effective manner after completion of the underground Hyderabad-Paradip pipeline project.
Pathak said the GAIL pipeline project would benefit a large population in the districts enroute with clean and green fuel in the form of household PNG connection and establishment of CNG station resulting in easy accessibility to cooking fuel to thousands of households and reducing vehicular pollution. Further, it will also cater the energy demands of steel, refractories, aluminum and other industries en-route the pipeline, besides generating employment opportunities for thousands of local youth".
The Paradip-Hyderabad Pipeline project involves laying of 1,212 km pipeline from Paradip to Hyderabad, traversing through 16 districts in the States of Odisha (six districts), Andhra Pradesh (six districts) and Telangana (four districts). Corresponding length of pipeline route in Odisha, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana is 330 km, 722 km and 160 km, respectively. A total of Rs 3,808 crore is estimated to be spent.
Similarly, the GAIL’s Bokaro – Angul section pipeline would have a total length of 667 km, of which 367 km will be in Odisha and 300 km in Jharkhand. It will cover five districts in Odisha (Angul, Sundargarh, Jharsuguda, Sambalpur and Debagarh) and six districts in Jharkhand
The project cost of this section will be approximately Rs 3,400 crore.