India To Build Oil Pipeline To Nepal

August 04:


NEW DELHI, Aug 5 (Bernama) -- India will build an 81-km pipeline from Motihari in northern state of Bihar to Nepal to supply oil products to that country, Press Trust of India (PTI) reported.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi reiterated India's willingness to build the Rs200-crore (US$32.83 million) pipeline to transport petrol, diesel and jet fuel during the first visit by an Indian prime minister to Kathmandu on Monday in 17 years.

Nepal is dependent on India for meeting its fuel needs which are currently being transported from the Indian Oil Corp's (IOC) depot at Raxaul town in Bihar to Nepal.

"It is not a very big pipeline but we have to secure statutory clearances from authorities in India and Nepal before work on the pipeline can begin," said a senior IOC official.

In 2006, a 41-km pipeline from Raxaul to Amlekhgunj in south-eastern Nepal was proposed to transport oil products.

The pipeline was to be funded equally by IOC and Nepal Oil Corp (NOC) but the project never took off after Nepal refused to fund its share of the cost.

IOC will build the new pipeline from Motihari to Amlekhgunj.

Source: www.bernama.com/bernama/v7/wn/newsworld.php?id=1057896

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