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Pata (Auraiya) June 15: Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) and state-owned Gas Authority of India Limited (GAIL) will jointly evacuate about 1.5 million tonne per annum of LPG from Reliance and Essar plants through GAIL's Jamnagar-Loni pipeline.
As per the pact, GAIL would transport the LPG lifted by IOC, which has the marketing rights, from the two private sector plants at a cost of Rs 1.30 per tonne/km, GAIL sources said.
GAIL is currently laying the largest 1,250 km LPG pipeline in the world at an investment of Rs 1,230 crore that would have a capacity to transport 2.5 million tonnes per annum (tpa) and the project is likely to be commissioned by April 2001, the sources said.
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has sanctioned a loan of $150 million for the project. In the first phase, the project would have a capacity of 1.7 million tpa which would be expanded to 2.5 million tpa, the sources said.Reliance has a capacity to produce two million tonnes of LPG per annum.Work on the pipeline has been progressingat a brisk pace and GAIL has already bought 20,000 tonnes of pipes for the project out of the total requirement of 70,000 tonnes through tendering process, the sources said.
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