State-owned Indian Oil Corp (IOC) plans to lay the nation's longest lPG pipeline from Gujarat coast to Gorakhpur in eastern Uttar Pradesh to cater to growing demand for cooking gas in the country.
IOC plans to import lPG at Kandla in Gujarat and move it through the 1,987 kilometer pipeline to Gorakhpur via Ahmedabad (in Gujarat), Ujjain, Bhopal (in Madhya Pradesh), Kanpur, Allahabad, Varanasi and lucknow (in Uttar Pradesh). The pipeline will carry 3.75 million tons per annum of lPG, IOC said in an application to the sector regulator PNGRB seeking approval for the pipeline project.
lPG will be fed into the pipeline at Kandla port as well as IOC’s Koyali refinery in Gujarat. This will be the biggest lPG pipeline in the country. GAIl currently operates a 1,415-km line from Jamnagar in Gujarat to loni near here. The line carries 2.5 million tons of lPG annually. GAIl also has a 623-km Vizag-Secunderabad pipeline. IOC also has a 274-km pipeline from Panipat in Haryana to Jalandhar.