Prime Minister Narendra Modi will on Sunday lay the foundation stone of the country’s longest LPG pipeline that will cater to cooking fuel needs of a fourth of the country’s population, said Petroleum Minister Dharmendra Pradhan. State-owned Indian Oil Corp (IOC) is laying an LPG pipeline from Gujarat coast to Gorakhpur in eastern Uttar Pradesh to cater to growing demand for cooking gas in the country. IOC plans to import LPG at Kandla in Gujarat and move it through the 1,987-kilometre pipeline to Gorakhpur via Ahmedabad (in Gujarat), Ujjain, Bhopal (in Madhya Pradesh), Kanpur, Allahabad, Varanasi and Lucknow (in Uttar Pradesh).
“The pipeline possibly is the longest LPG (liquefied petroleum gas) pipeline in the world,” Pradhan said adding the pipeline would be laid at a cost of Rs 9,000 crore. The pipeline will carry 3.75 million tonne per annum of LPG. LPG will be fed into the pipeline at Kandla port as well as IOC’s Koyali refinery in Gujarat.
