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India decides to bypass Bangladesh to get Myanmar Gas
With Bangladesh maintaining a “negative” attitude with regard to the proposed India-Myanmar gas pipeline passing through its territory, India has decided to by-pass the neighbouring country and has started the process for making alternate arrangements for receiving the hydrocarbon.
Fri 7 Apr 2006
Asia Pulse:
New Delhi: With Bangladesh maintaining a “negative” attitude with regard to the proposed India-Myanmar gas pipeline passing through its territory, India has decided to by-pass the neighbouring country and has started the process for making alternate arrangements for receiving the hydrocarbon.
After a year-long stalemate and Myanmar’s
threat to sell the available gas to other countries, India
has decided to transport gas from two off-shore blocks in Myanmar via
Tripura without touching Bangladeshi territory.
State-owned Gas Authority of India Limited (GAIL) has
asked a private company to conduct feasibility studies to transport gas from Myanmar to be received at Patna, official sources said here.
Another study has been commissioned to assess the feasibility of transporting the gas in the form of Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) bypassing Bangladesh, they said.
The reports of the studies are expected by next month, the
sources said.
The government took the step as Myanmar
raised doubts over India’s
seriousness in the project and sought “clarifications” urgently on how India proposed
to move ahead.
Myanmar has threatened that if India does not decide on the project fast, it would consider selling its gas to some other countries like China and Thailand.