• Investment World
• eWorld
• Brand Line
• Mentor
• Life
• Canvas
• Praxis
• Urban Pulse
• Brand Quest
• The New Manager

Stocks

• Quotes
• SE Diary
• Scoreboard
• Open-End Mutual Fund

Cross Currency

• Rates
  
  

Shipping

• Ports
  
  

Archives

• Yesterday
• Datewise
• Resources
• In Focus
• In Depth

Group Sites

• The Hindu
• The Hindu ePaper
• Business Line
• Business Line ePaper
• Sportstar
• Frontline
• The Hindu eBooks
• The Hindu Images

Our Bureau

New Delhi , Nov. 21

The North-Eastern States have asked the Petroleum Ministry to route the proposed gas pipeline from Myanmar to India through the region. Speaking to newspersons after meeting the Petroleum Minister, Mr Murli Deora, Assam's Commerce and Industry Minister, Mr Pradyut Bordoloi, said "re-routing the pipeline through the North-Eastern States will bring development and prosperity to the region."

Mr Bordoloi was representing a forum of Commerce and Industry Ministers from the region. Facing tough competition from China for gas from Myanmar, India has suggested alternative routes including one through the North-East that excluded Bangladesh.

GAIL (India) Ltd, which is the preferred buyer of gas from Block A-1 in Myanmar, has also favoured routing the pipeline through Mizoram, Assam, Bihar and West Bengal. The trunk pipeline for importing gas from Myanmar will be connected to the proposed Jagdishpur-Haldia gas pipeline at Gaya in Bihar after passing through Aizwal, Guwahati, Jalpaiguri and Siliguri. The pipeline will also have the provision to transport gas from developing gas fields in Tripura and Assam.

Longer route

The proposed pipeline will traverse a length of 1,400 km if it bypasses Bangladesh and 900 km if it goes through that country. ONGC Videsh Ltd and GAIL collectively hold a 30 per cent stake in the A-1 and A-3 gas blocks in Myanmar. Daewoo International Corporation with 60 per cent stake is the operator of both the blocks. South Korea's Korea Gas Corporation holds the remaining 10 per cent stake.

The in-place reserves from the A-1 block have been assessed by Houston-based consulting firm Ryder Scott at 2.88 trillion cubic feet to 3.56 trillion cubic feet. Commercial production from the field is expected to commence by 2009.

More Stories on : Petroleum | Infrastructure

Article E-Mail :: Comment :: Syndication :: Printer Friendly Page

Stories in this Section
Winter's here!

Copyright © 2006, The Hindu Business Line. Republication or redissemination of the contents of this screen are expressly prohibited without the written consent of The Hindu Business Line