Dharmendra Pradhan inaugurates LPG pipeline, pump station in Odisha

BHUBANESWAR: Union petroleum and skill development minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Sunday inaugurated the Balasore pump station, a feeder level of supplying crude oil to five refineries of Paradip, Haldia, Barauni, Bongaigaon and Guwahati, at Chandipur in Balasore district.
The minister will inaugurate an LPG pipeline, the Paradip-Balasore section of Paradip-Haldia- Durgapur LPG Pipeline (PHDPL), and an LPG bottling plant at Kuruda in Balasore district.

The tasks will serve all of the japanese and north japanese area of the country, Dharmendra mentioned.

The state of the art pump station will play a key position in feeding the Paradip-Haldia- Barauni Crude Oil Pipeline (PHBPL), which is the power freeway to all of the japanese and north-eastern area of India.

The IOCL has invested Rs 586 crore for the augmentation of PHBPL in four states — Odisha, West Bengal, Jharkhand and Bihar. He mentioned out of that, Rs 321 crore has been invested in Odisha alone. In long run, the PHBPL pipeline has been envisaged to feed crude oil to Numaligarh refinery within the northeast.

Paradip has some of the largest crude oil storage facilities with 31 tanks having a complete capability of 60,000 kilolitre each and every. This will ensure uninterrupted provide of crude oil to all japanese area refineries of IOCL.


The petroleum minister additionally inaugurated the Paradip-Balasore section of Paradip-Haldia-Durgapur LPG Pipeline (PHDPL). This is the primary LPG pipeline within the japanese India to be laid through IOCL.


This line has been envisaged to cater to the LPG demand of Odisha, Jharkhand and West Bengal. The 710km long pipeline originates in Paradip in Odisha and terminates at Durgapur in West Bengal. Altogether Rs 400 crore has been invested in this undertaking in Odisha.


The 157km Paradip-Balasore section pipeline will do away with highway transportation of LPG from Paradip, thus reducing carbon emissions and visitors congestion. This will also be visualised from the truth that about 1.three crore gas cylinders are going to get stuffed on the Balasore LPG bottling plant. From the environmental viewpoint, this undertaking would result in aid of Co2 emission to the song of 16 lac MT in line with annum, the IOCL officers mentioned.


The LPG bottling plant at Kuruda in Balasore, the second such plant there constructed at an estimated value of Rs 8.three crore, could have a capability of 1600 bottles in line with hour.
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