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India, Bangladesh Fuel Trade Talks On June 12

Times of India

After linking the power networks, India and Bangladesh will hold official-level talks here on June 12 to discuss the nitty-gritties of linking their LPG (liquefied natural gas) networks.

The Bangladesh energy secretary will be visiting Delhi on June 12 for discussions with our petroleum secretary KD Tripathi. The proposal draws upon the strength of our bilateral ties and will benefit people of both the countries,” oil minister Dharmendra Pradhan said on Friday.
The secretary-level talks follow discussions Pradhan had with the Bangladesh government, including prime minister Sheikh Hasina, during his April visit. Lending an impetus to to bilateral energy ties initiated during PM Narendra Modi’s June 2015 visit, Pradhan proposed laying a Chittagong-Tripura pipeline through Bangladesh for supplying part of the imported LPG to India’s northeast region and supplying diesel from Numaligarh refinery to Parbatipur in Bangladesh.

The pipeline would allow India an easier transport route to supply LPG to the northeast and help Bangladesh expand its own distribution network for the clean fuel.

Flagship refiner-marketer Indianoil inked an MoU with Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation to examine the possibility of jointly working on setting up a LPG import terminal at Chittagong port and other downstream infrastructure in that country.

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