(TOI)
Union petroleum ministerDharmendra Pradhan on Sunday laid foundation stone for three gas pipelines at Haripur in Jajpur district to supply gas for domestic and industrial uses under Pradhan Mantri Urja Ganga project. First one was new Dhamra-Angul main pipeline (36 inch wide) and the other two were branch lines (12 inch wide) connecting twin city (Bhubaneswar-Cuttack) and Paradip. For the 769-km-long gas pipeline project in Odisha, Rs 4,000 crore will be spent.
The project will cover Bhadrak, Jajpur, Dhenkanal, Angul, Sundargarh, Sambalpur, Jharsuguda, Deogarh, Jagatsinghpur, Cuttack, Khurdha, Puri and Kendrapada. It will also connect major industrial clusters of these 13 districts.The pipeline project will be implemented by the GAIL (India) Limited, a government-owned gas transmission company. It will supply gas to twin city through the spur line under its city gas distribution (CGD) project. A total of Rs 1700 crore will be spent for the CGD project.The minister said construction of a LNG terminal has been started at Dhamra in Bhadrak district with an investment of Rs 6000 crore. It will convert liquid gases imported from USA, Australia and Qatar into gaseous form and supply through the pipelines, he added.
