Union Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Dharmendra Pradhan said polypropylene would be published from the Paradip Refiney sometime during the current month, December.
Prdhan said this while inaugurating 19 the National Conference on Corrosion Control here on the day. He said the Union Government is now giving focus on a gas-based economic system. The Government has planned to to supply cooking gas through pipelines to households and for this Rs 70,000 would be invested in the first phase.
In Odisha, 1700 km ofgas pipelines will be spread at a cost of Rs 4,500 crore, he said.
He said the Centre has also plant to connect gas pipeline network between Dhamra in Bhadrak district with Siliguri and from there to Bangladesh. For this, the gas transportation capacity of the Paradip Port would be enhanced. Now, 37 MMPTA crude oil is being transported to IOCL refineries at Paradip, Haldia, Barauni and Bangai Gaon, he said.
In future, 1212-km and 4.5 MMTPA-capacity pipelines would be laid from Paradip to Hyderabad. Infrastructure works for 360-km Paradip-Dhamra-Haladia LNG Pipeline and 345-km Paradip-Somnathpur-Haladia pipeline are now underway, he informed.
He said the capacity of Paradip Oil Refinery would be enhanced soon. Polypropylene would be produced from refiner from this December, he said.