Anisul Islam Noor :
The government has invited international consulting firms for their opinion in regards to the construction of the Dhaka-Chittagong oil pipeline in order to ease transportation of oil at reduced cost, energy division sources said.
It is the country’s first initiative of this kind between the port city of Chittagong and Dhaka. The 265 kilometers long pipeline would siphon refined petroleum products from the port city to the capital at the quickest possible time, sources said.
State owned Padma Oil Co Ltd (POCL) has invited tenders from the interested firms to work as a consultant to build the maiden oil carrying pipeline. POCL is the implementing authority of the project.
“We want the selected consultant to prepare a detailed feasibility study report for the pipeline,” a senior official of the POCL said.
The consultant would select pipeline route, finalize its design, select locations of
dispatch terminal and unloading terminal. It would do the survey work, make soil investigation and inspection and selection of route.
Finalizing of intermediate pumping station, leak detection, pipe specification and suitable pipe external coating system and quantity estimation are also in the package deal.
The consultant would prepare basic electrical scheme, preliminary power requirement and load list, pumps, motors, valve-pumping station, CP station, leak detection, pigging system and telecommunications system and others.
It would also estimate cost, do environmental impact assessment, and resettlement action plan and feasibility analysis.
The bid-submission deadline is January 4, 2016. “This is for the first time that Bangladesh government has decided for such alternative supply line of petroleum products to meet any sort of exigencies,” said POCL official.
Bangladesh never before thought of building pipeline to carry petroleum products inside the country. Tank-lorries owned by private sector and the state-run Bangladesh Railways (BR) carry petroleum products from oil depots to different user-ends by road.
Tankers mostly owned by private sector also carry petroleum on various river routes.
The BR supplies petroleum products through rail wagons. Government’s huge costs could be cut once the pipelines are built.
Currently the state-run oil-marketing and-distribution companies pay Tk 4,000 crore (US$ 51.28 million) annually as carrying charge, said M Nazmul Hoque, President of Bangladesh Petrol Pump and Tank Lorry Owners Association. There are a total of 7,000 tank-lorries in the country.
The country annually requires around 5.5 million tonnes of petroleum products, crude and refined oil, to meet a mounting demand from power plants, airports, irrigation, transports and industries.
The fuels are 0.05 per cent and 0.25 per cent sulfur gas oil (diesel), 180 CST high-sulfur fuel oil with 3.5 per cent sulfur content (furnace oil), A-1 jet fuel, superior kerosene, 92 RON gasoline (petrol), 95 RON gasoline (octane).
The government has invited international consulting firms for their opinion in regards to the construction of the Dhaka-Chittagong oil pipeline in order to ease transportation of oil at reduced cost, energy division sources said.
It is the country’s first initiative of this kind between the port city of Chittagong and Dhaka. The 265 kilometers long pipeline would siphon refined petroleum products from the port city to the capital at the quickest possible time, sources said.
State owned Padma Oil Co Ltd (POCL) has invited tenders from the interested firms to work as a consultant to build the maiden oil carrying pipeline. POCL is the implementing authority of the project.
“We want the selected consultant to prepare a detailed feasibility study report for the pipeline,” a senior official of the POCL said.
The consultant would select pipeline route, finalize its design, select locations of
dispatch terminal and unloading terminal. It would do the survey work, make soil investigation and inspection and selection of route.
Finalizing of intermediate pumping station, leak detection, pipe specification and suitable pipe external coating system and quantity estimation are also in the package deal.
The consultant would prepare basic electrical scheme, preliminary power requirement and load list, pumps, motors, valve-pumping station, CP station, leak detection, pigging system and telecommunications system and others.
It would also estimate cost, do environmental impact assessment, and resettlement action plan and feasibility analysis.
The bid-submission deadline is January 4, 2016. “This is for the first time that Bangladesh government has decided for such alternative supply line of petroleum products to meet any sort of exigencies,” said POCL official.
Bangladesh never before thought of building pipeline to carry petroleum products inside the country. Tank-lorries owned by private sector and the state-run Bangladesh Railways (BR) carry petroleum products from oil depots to different user-ends by road.
Tankers mostly owned by private sector also carry petroleum on various river routes.
The BR supplies petroleum products through rail wagons. Government’s huge costs could be cut once the pipelines are built.
Currently the state-run oil-marketing and-distribution companies pay Tk 4,000 crore (US$ 51.28 million) annually as carrying charge, said M Nazmul Hoque, President of Bangladesh Petrol Pump and Tank Lorry Owners Association. There are a total of 7,000 tank-lorries in the country.
The country annually requires around 5.5 million tonnes of petroleum products, crude and refined oil, to meet a mounting demand from power plants, airports, irrigation, transports and industries.
The fuels are 0.05 per cent and 0.25 per cent sulfur gas oil (diesel), 180 CST high-sulfur fuel oil with 3.5 per cent sulfur content (furnace oil), A-1 jet fuel, superior kerosene, 92 RON gasoline (petrol), 95 RON gasoline (octane).
