Regular import of petroleum products via pipelines begins

Bagmati, Feb. 18: Regular import of petroleum products via pipelines from India's Motihari to Amlekhgunj in Bara has started. Nepal Oil Corporation's Madhes Regional Office Amlekhgunj has said that the import of petroleum products, including petrol and kerosene, has started from the pipeline after the completion of the work of the Intra-national Petroleum Pipeline Expansion.

Pralayankar Acharya, Chief of Nepal Oil Corporation Madhes Province Office, Amlekhgunj, informed that the entire work of petroleum pipeline expansion has been completed and the regular import of petroleum products from the pipeline has been started for a few days. 

"However petrol and kerosene have already imported from the pipeline," Chief Acharya said, "Now we have started formally distributing the imported petrol from the pipeline to the depots in major cities in the country."

Under the pipeline expansion project, two petrol tanks with a capacity of 4,100 kiloliters, two transmix tanks with a capacity of 250 kiloliters, 24 fully automatic loading way-refillers for transporting petrol, pump house and laboratory have been constructed at the Indian Oil Corporation's depot in Amlekhgunj. 

Under the same project, the upgrade of the 'Fire Fighting System', the 'OWS System' for water and oil separation and the PMCC Cell have also been constructed.

Likhita Infrastructure was contracted to complete the construction of the entire infrastructure by 2023. Chief Acharya said that the work of expanding the pipeline was completed only a few days ago for various reasons. Similarly, Indian Oil Corporation has constructed two transmix tanks to store mixed fuel which can be both petrol and diesel and a firewater tank with a capacity of 3000 kilolitres for protection inside the depot.

With the completion of this project, the storage capacity of diesel at Amlekhgunj depot will be 24,840 kiloliters and the storage capacity of petrol will be 16,630 kiloliters.