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Bangladesh to import 2.5 lakh tonnes of diesel from India every year
India will export diesel to Bangladesh through the 130-km India-Bangladesh Friendship Pipeline (IBFPL).
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her Indian counterpart Narendra Modi will open jointly the maiden cross-border oil pipeline on March 18. With the inauguration of the friendship pipeline, Bangladesh will import about 2.5 lakh tonnes of diesel from India every year.
State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid Bipu said this while talking to the journalists after visiting the receipt terminal of India-Bangladesh Friendship Pipeline Project in Parbatipur of Didajpur on Friday.
India will export diesel through the 130-km India-Bangladesh Friendship Pipeline (IBFPL), built at a cost of around 3.46 billion Indian rupees drawn from the Indian line of credit (LoC).
The pipeline stretches 125-km inside Bangladesh territory and 5-km inside India while the two premiers joined the ground-breaking ceremony for the IBFPL in September 2018 through video conferencing.