Login

Forget Password?
Login With Facebook
Don't Have An Account? Sign Up

Sign Up

Already Have An Account? Login
Read Our Privacy Policy
Back to Login
  • National
  • Politics
  • Valley
  • Opinion
  • Money
  • Sports
  • Culture & Lifestyle

  • National
    • Madhesh Province
    • Lumbini Province
    • Bagmati Province
    • National Security
    • Koshi Province
    • Gandaki Province
    • Karnali Province
    • Sudurpaschim Province
  • Politics
  • Valley
    • Kathmandu
    • Lalitpur
    • Bhaktapur
  • Opinion
    • Columns
    • As it is
    • Letters
    • Editorial
    • Cartoon
  • Money
  • Sports
    • Cricket
    • Football
    • International Sports
  • Culture & Lifestyle
    • Arts
    • Brunch with the Post
    • Movies
    • Life & Style
    • Theater
    • Entertainment
    • Books
    • Fashion
  • Health
  • Food
    • Recipes
  • Travel
  • Investigations
  • Climate & Environment
  • World
  • Science & Technology
  • Interviews
  • Visual Stories
  • Crosswords & Sudoku
  • Horoscope
  • Forex
  • Corrections
  • Letters to the Editor
  • Today's ePaper
Sunday, July 27, 2025

Without Fear or FavourUNWIND IN STYLE

26.44°C Kathmandu
Air Quality in Kathmandu: 37
300+Hazardous
0-50Good
51-100Moderate
101-150Unhealty for Sensitive Groups
151-200Unhealthy
201-300Very Unhealthy
Sun, Jul 27, 2025
26.44°C Kathmandu
Air Quality in Kathmandu: 37
  • What's News :

  • Open-air jet repair
  • Nepal’s para-fighters
  • Court intervention in lawmaking
  • Temporary bridge at Rasuwagadhi
  • Customs offices merge

Money

Cross-border Nepal-India petroleum pipeline project back on track

Nepal Oil Corporation has expedited construction of the cross-border Nepal-India petroleum pipeline project which had stalled due to a forest clearance issue. Cross-border Nepal-India petroleum pipeline project back on track
bookmark
  • facebook
  • twitter
  • Whatsapp
  • mail
Published at : January 27, 2019
Updated at : January 28, 2019 09:48
Kathmandu

Nepal Oil Corporation has expedited construction of the cross-border Nepal-India petroleum pipeline project which had stalled due to a forest clearance issue. The state owned corporation has received the Cabinet’s go-ahead to cut the trees that lie along the 9 kilometre Pathlaiya-Amlekhgunj section of the project.  

The Cabinet meeting on January 17 decided to allow the project to cut down around 80,000 trees in the section of Pathlaiya-Amlekhgunj forest route. Of the total trees set to be cut down, 6,533 are big trees, said an official of the corporation.

Following the go-ahead, the Timber Corporation of Nepal—which has been assigned with the task of cutting the trees—issued a 30-day notice last Tuesday.   

The Nepal-India oil pipeline is 69 km long, stretching from Amlekhgunj in Nepal to Motihari in India. Pipe laying works on 9 km stretch, out of 36.2-km of the petroleum pipeline—from Raxaul border to Amlekhgunj—in Nepal had stalled due to the forest clearance issue.

“If the project is expedited, it can be completed within two months,” said the official. Initially, the Nepal Oil Corporation (NOC) had targeted to begin commercial operation of the pipeline by March. “However, due to the delay in forest clearance, it has been pushed back by a month to April-end.”

The pipeline project started on March 9 last year. The ground-breaking of the pipeline project took more than two decades after the first discussion on the project was held between Nepal and India.

The Indian Oil Corporation had proposed constructing a cross-border pipeline in 1995 and signed a memorandum of understanding with NOC at the junior executive level a year later. In 2004, the two sides upgraded the agreement to the chief executive level. However, due to a number of legal hurdles, the project failed to take off.

Indian construction company Likhiya Infrastructures has been awarded the pipeline construction project with the completion deadline of 15 months. Simlesh Limited of Maharashtra, India, is manufacturing the steel pipes being used in the project.

Moti Prabha Infra Tech, another Indian company based in Faridabad, has been upgrading four vertical fuel storage tanks at the Amlekhgunj depot of NOC. These tanks have a combined storage capacity of 13,400 kilolitres. Two of the tanks can hold 3,900 kilolitres each and the other two tanks can hold 1,500 kilolitres and 4,100 kilolitres respectively.

Indian Oil Corporation has been funding the major cost of the petroleum pipeline construction. NOC is bearing the cost of land compensation. The design throughput capacity of the pipeline is 2 million tonnes per annum. The pipeline project is expected to cost Rs4.4 billion.

The pipeline will transport petrol, diesel and kerosene. Under the first phase of the project, a pipeline will be laid from Raxaul to Amlekhgunj. In the second phase, it will be extended to Kathmandu.

The construction of the pipeline is expected to help ensure regular supply of petroleum products to Nepal besides reducing transportation costs and eliminating the vagaries of transportation by tanker trucks. The country’s fuel import bill surged 43.1 percent in fiscal 2017-18 to Rs170.13 billion.


Related News

Nepse drops 18.44 points as market opens week on a weak note
Nepal’s top revenue-generating customs offices merge
‘Selling EVs is to help laying foundation for a sustainable future’
Ncell Crorepati scheme marks a rare turn of fortune for Parbati Karki
FDI pledges to Nepal inch up 5 percent amid policy tweaks
NEPSE this week

Most Read from Money

Wrong speed, unsafe cargo and lax safety caused Saurya crash
Kailash pilgrims breathe new life into Nepal’s mountain economy
US-Bangla ordered to pay full damages for 2018 fatal crash
Chure belt turns into tourist hotspot amid conservation concerns
Nepal’s foreign trade hits Rs2 trillion, driven by edible oil re-export boom

Editor's Picks

Kailash pilgrims breathe new life into Nepal’s mountain economy
Pressure groups are dictating lawmaking
Indians paying by QR in Nepal for a year but Nepalis still lack access in India
UML weighs binning age, term limits amid Oli-Bhandari rivalry
Law in the works to check officials’ conflict of interest

E-PAPER | July 27, 2025

  • Read ePaper Online
×
ABOUT US
  • About the Post
  • Masthead
  • Editorial Standards & Integrity
  • Workplace Harassment Policy
  • Privacy Policy
READ US
  • Home Delivery
  • ePaper
CONTACT US
  • Write for the Post
  • Letters to the Editor
  • Advertise in the Post
  • Work for the Post
  • Send us a tip
INTERACT WITH US
  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
OUR SISTER PUBLICATIONS
  • eKantipur
  • saptahik
  • Nepal
  • Nari
  • Radio Kantipur
  • Kantipur TV
© 2025 www.kathmandupost.com
  • Privacy Policy
Top