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Hindustan Petroleum Corporation’s plan for a cross country pipeline to move LPG received on the west coast to bottling plants over 600 km away in the hinterland has hit a roadblock with GAIL (India) raising objections to the project.The project, GAIL fears, could mean the end of the road for its pipeline that for more than a decade has been bringing LPG from the port city of Vishakhapatnam, on the eastern coast, to bottling plants in Cherlapalli, near Secunderabad.
The resistance is in response to an expression of interest HPCL had submitted to PNGRB, the regulator, earlier this year to lay and operate a liquefied petroleum gas pipeline from Hassan in Karnataka to Cherlapalli, near Secunderabad in Telangana.The oil marketing company proposes to move the product from its Mangaluru LPG import facility. Hassan is one of the injection points on HPCL’s Mangaluru-Hassan-Mysuru-Sollur LPG pipeline. The plan involves laying a 620-km long pipeline from Hassan to Cherlapalli with a tap-off point (TOP) at Anantapur in Andhra Pradesh.
