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After the successful testing of petrol, test kerosene has also been imported from the Raxaul-Amlekhganj petroleum pipeline. Earlier, 5,500 kiloliters of petrol was brought from the pipeline where only diesel was imported on October 17.
The petrol was brought for testing. Pralayankar Acharya, head of regional office of Amlekhganj of Nepal Oil Corporation, said that 1000 kiloliters of kerosene was also brought on Wednesday. "In the first lot, one thousand kiloliters of kerosene has been imported and successfully tested," he said. The pipeline was inaugurated on August 24, 2076.
Under the second phase, the aim is to import petrol and kerosene from the pipeline. The corporation is preparing to continuously import petrol and kerosene through the pipeline from January. Chief Acharya said that kerosene was also imported on Wednesday in preparation for the same. The Amlekhganj fuel depot, which has been in operation for three and a half decades, is now operating in manual mode.
With the arrival of petrol from the pipeline, the infrastructure has been built to take the depot to full automation. To import petrol and kerosene through the pipeline, the corporation is going to go into depot automation with the construction of infrastructure including 4 more tanks, loading bays, state-of-the-art laboratories. 24 'loading bays' have been constructed for complete automation in
loading. There are 36 filling points in 24 'loading bays', out of which 7 bottom loading and 8 tom loading of petrol can be done. 4 bottom and 14 top loading of diesel can be done. It is said that there is 1 bottom loading of kerosene. According to the corporation, the technical loss of the
pipeline will be zero, transportation costs will be saved and environmental pollution will also be reduced. There will be transportation freight and time savings, pollution control, quantity and quality assurance.
