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Trials have started to import petroleum products through a pipeline from India's Motihari to Amlekhganj in Bara. For this, testing has been started with the completion of petroleum pipeline expansion.
Pralayankar Acharya, Head of Nepal Oil Corporation Madhes Regional Office, Amlekhganj informed that the entire work of expansion of Motihari-Amlekhganj petroleum pipeline has been completed and the import of petrol and kerosene through the pipeline has been started for testing.
'We have brought 5,500 KL of petrol and 1,000 KL of kerosene from the extended pipeline to test the pipeline,' Chief Acharya said, 'The petroleum product brought from the pipeline is being tested.' Along with this, he informed that necessary preparations are being made for the regular import of petroleum products through the pipeline.
He said, 'Even though it is said that petroleum products will be imported regularly from January 2025 through the pipeline, it will be delayed for a few days because the necessary preparations have not been completed.'
As part of the pipeline expansion project, Indian Oil Corporation has constructed two petrol tanks with a capacity of 4,100 kiloliters, two transmix tanks with a capacity of 250 kiloliters, 24 fully automatic loading ways-refillers for transporting petrol, a pump house and a laboratory at the depot located in Amlekhganj. Acharya said.
Under the same project, upgrading of fire fighting system, OWS system for separating water and oil and PMCC room have also been constructed. The contract was awarded to Likhita Infrastructure Pvt Ltd to complete the entire infrastructure within the year 2023. But due to various reasons, the pipeline expansion work was completed only a few days ago, said the chief Acharya.
Similarly, Indian Oil Corporation has built two transmix tanks for storing mixed fuel, which can be both petrol and diesel, and a firewater tank with a capacity of 3,000 kiloliters for security inside the depot. Under the
project, the first phase of work has been completed and diesel is being imported from the pipeline since 25 August 2076. After the completion of the second phase of the project, petrol and kerosene will also be imported through the pipeline.
'Even though it was possible to import petrol and kerosene through the same pipeline, due to lack of storage capacity, petroleum products had to be brought from tankers,' said Chief Acharya, 'After the completion of the project, regular import of petrol, diesel and kerosene will be done through the pipeline.'
Acharya, the head of the office, says that the importation of petroleum products through the Metihari-Amlekhganj pipeline will reduce technical losses, save transportation costs and help in reducing environmental pollution.
With the completion of this project, the storage capacity of diesel in Amlekhganj depot will reach 24 thousand eight hundred 40 kiloliters and the storage capacity of petrol will reach 16 thousand six hundred 30 kiloliters.
