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The 24 Engineer Construction Brigade of the Bangladesh Army has implemented the project funded by BPC. The Covid-19 pandemic and the Russia-Ukraine war contributed to delay and cost escalation of the project.
BPC sources confirmed that the implementing organization will hand over the project to the funding authorities of Padma Oil Company Limited this month.
The Padma Oil Company will also hand over it to the BPC and then BPC will hand over to the Petroleum Transportation Company Limited, (PTC PLC).
The authorities of PTC PLC are expected to launch fuel oil transportation through pipeline from Chattogram to Dhaka installed at a cost of Tk 3,698 crore in September next.
The pipeline is able to transport 5.4 million tons of diesel per year for 25 years without any major disorder. The capital requires only 2.7 million tons of fuel oil per year.
The 250km long pipeline from Chattogram to Dhaka will transport over 27 lakh metric tonnes of Diesel (High Speed Diesel-HSD). The HSD is one of the most important fuel for agricultural works in the northern districts of the country.
The BPC had taken the project of the installation of 250-kilometre pipeline, for supplying diesel from Chattogram to Dhaka in an attempt to check pilferage and ensure its quick supply.
Currently, from Godnail and Fatullah in Narayanganj, oil tankers usually transport oil through waterways to the depots in the country’s northern areas including Baghabari (Pabna), Chilmari (Kurigram) and north-western Chachna Bazar (Sunamganj).
The 237.71-km 16-inch diameter pipeline had been installed from BPC’s Chattogram tank terminal at Padma Oil Installations at Patenga to Godnail tank terminal in Narayanganj.
Besides, the BPC installed another 8.29-km 10-inch diameter pipeline from Godnail to Fatullah in Narayanganj to carry oil.
Another 59.23-km 8-inch diameter pipeline from Cumilla to Chandpur has also been set up to supply oil to Chandpur areas later on. The oil transportation pipeline will be secured as it will be three-LPE (Layer Extruded Polyethylene Coating) coated pipeline.