Gas pipeline
India will double its gas pipeline to 30,000 km in five years, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said while inaugurating the Petrotech 2016 conference on Dec 5, 2016 in New Delhi.
“We will increase this (pipeline) to 30,000 km in five years so that it can reach 10 million households,” Modi said of the current 15,000km pipeline network.
He reiterated that India needed to increase domestic oil and gas production and reduce its import dependence by 10 per cent by 2022.
He stressed that the key was to provide energy access to the poor.
“While some of the rich are buying hybrid cars, many of the poor are still using firewood for cooking,” he said. fii-news.com
