India to Export 600MW more Power to Bangladesh - To set up Pipeline Link for Petroleum Exports

[Chanakya's_Chant]

Bangladesh to source 600MW more power from India
India is in the final stage of concluding a deal with Bangladesh for sale of 100 MW of power from OTPC.​

Bangladesh is planning to source about 5,000 MW of power from regional suppliers like India, Nepal and Butan over the next few years. (PTI)
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India is in the final stage of concluding a deal with Bangladesh for sale of 100 MW of power from ONGC Tripura Power Company and has started talks for sale of another 500MW to the neighbouring nation by 2016 as Dhaka seeks to source more power from regional suppliers to meet its rising energy demand, said Tawfiq-e-Elahi Choudhury Bir Bikram, advisor to Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on power, energy and natural resource affairs.

Bangladesh is planning to source about 5,000 MW of power from regional suppliers like India, Nepal and Butan over the next few years.

“We are yet to decide on the tariff for power purchase under the deals currently being discussed but we hope it would be favourable to us,” said C Choudhur . On a visit to the state, he told select reporters that Bangladesh faces a peak time power shortage of about 5-10% and would look for large power purchase deals as its energy requirement is expected to go up further in line with consumption and higher economic activity. The weighted average tariff of Bangladesh’s power purchase deals now works out to about 6.5 Taka.

Choudhury said the Bangladesh economy is growing at about 6% a year and would have greater appetite for sourcing energy from India. Already it is buying 500 MW from NTPC’s West Bengal plants. Once the final power purchase deals currently being negotiated are executed, Bangladesh would be buying 1100MW from India. For India, Bangladesh is a nearby ready market for the energy produced in the North Eastern region, which is geographically removed from the industrial hubs in the country.

Choudhury is in Tripura to participate in the dedication of ONGC Tripura Power Company (OTPC) at Palatana to the nation by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Bangladesh is exploring co-operation in the energy sector which also covers exploration of oil and gas and joint development of hydro-power with India.

OTPC, a joint venture among state run oil and gas explorer, Infrastructure Leasing and Financial Services Limited (IL&FS) and the Tripura government, has now a capacity of 726.6 MW and supplies power to the entire North Eastern region. The company seeks to provide energy to industrialisation efforts in the area as it would be unviable for ONGC to transport the gas it produces from this region to the markets in more industrial parts of the country.

Source:- Bangladesh to source 600MW more power from India | The Financial Express

India to set up pipeline link to Bangladesh
Plans to sell petroleum products from BPCL's refinery to Bangladesh​

India and Bangladesh are looking at a comprehensive partnership in the energy sector even as the neighbour is keen on joining the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India natural gas pipeline.

Also, Indian refineries are looking at possibilities of selling petroleum products to the South Asian neighbour through a pipeline. “With the signing of the Saarc (South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation) framework for energy cooperation, it has become a reality. Besides, export from Turkmenistan is attractive,” said Tawfiq-e-Elahi, advisor to Prime Minister, energy and mineral resources, Bangladesh.

The product pipeline is being planned from BPCL’s Numaligarh refinery to Parbatipur in Bangladesh.

To begin with, diesel is likely to be transported through the pipeline. “A feasibility study for the pipeline is currently underway,” a senior petroleum ministry official said. The pipeline is estimated to cost Rs 200 crore and would have a capacity of one million tonne. It could also be further extended into Myanmar. India already sells petroleum products in Nepal, Bangladesh and Mauritius.

Taking forward the south Asian energy cooperation, India has also decided to open another window for power trading with Bangladesh. ONGC Tripura Power Company will supply 100 MW from Palantala in Tripura to Bangladesh.

India already sells 500 MW to Bangladesh from Bhemara power plant of NTPC in West Bengal. Bangladesh buys another 300 MW from the open market.

Tawfiq-e-Elahi said they were looking to buy another 500 MW from India by 2016.

Besides the movement of petroleum and petrochemical products, India and other SAARC countries are looking at greater cooperation in the power sector through integration of the transmission grid.

Source:- India to set up pipeline link to Bangladesh | Business Standard News

 

[Bong]

India itself is facing power shortage so why export?
Will there be any gas pressure at the end of this pipeline?
And coming through these two conflicting nations

 

[Ammyy]

India itself is facing power shortage so why export?
Will there be any gas pressure at the end of this pipeline?
And coming through these two conflicting nations

Well India added more then 23K MW power last year and this tread is going to continue so just a small portion for friends is not a big deal.

Conflicting nations ?? I thought India helping Bangladesh to destroy Jamati terrorist both in India and Bangladesh.

 

[Bong]

Well India added more then 23K MW power last year and this tread is going to continue so just a small portion for friends is not a big deal.

Conflicting nations ?? I thought India helping Bangladesh to destroy Jamati terrorist both in India and Bangladesh.

Pak Afgan two conflicting nation with Taliban problem.

 

[Chanakya's_Chant]

India itself is facing power shortage so why export?
Will there be any gas pressure at the end of this pipeline?
And coming through these two conflicting nations

India is world's third largest electricity producer after China and US and in turn we operate the largest synchronous grid in the world. Many of the federating states have a power surplus which export power to other states or neighboring country for that matter - Both Tripura and West Bengal are Power Surplus states producing more electricity than their own consumption and supply rest of the power to the exchange grid from where anyone can import it whether Uttar Pradesh or Bangladesh - since Bangladesh asked for it - India will provide it - as simple as that!

India becomes World's Third Largest Electricity Producer overtaking Japan
India's power generation capacity doubles to 2.34 lakh MW - The Times of India
Indian power system becomes largest operating synchronous grid in the world - The Times of India
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And as far as the "Pipeline" is concerned -the product pipeline is a different thing from TAPI - it is being planned from BPCL’s Numaligarh refinery to Parbatipur in Bangladesh and then further extension to Myanmar in the future.

 

[Joeblow]

Unlike Khalida zia who sheltered terrorist in Bangladesh present government is friendly with India and same we will not allow jamati terrorist on our soil. Soon you will see mamta benargi behind bars.

So pak afghan logic not applied here.

I don't think @Bong is talking the pak-afghan logic. I think he's is talking about the Bangladesh's interest in joining the TAPI pipeline which will obviously pass through Afghanistan and Pakistan.

 

[Bong]

India is world's third largest electricity producer after China and US and in turn we operate the largest synchronous grid in the world. Many of the federating states have a power surplus which export power to other states or neighboring country for that matter - Both Tripura and West Bengal are Power Surplus states producing more electricity than their own consumption and supply rest of the power to the exchange grid from where anyone can import it whether Uttar Pradesh or Bangladesh - since Bangladesh asked for it - India will provide it - as simple as that!

India becomes World's Third Largest Electricity Producer overtaking Japan
India's power generation capacity doubles to 2.34 lakh MW - The Times of India
Indian power system becomes largest operating synchronous grid in the world - The Times of India
​

And as far as the "Pipeline" is concerned -the product pipeline is a different thing from TAPI - it is being planned from BPCL’s Numaligarh refinery to Parbatipur in Bangladesh and then further extension to Myanmar in the future.

Ok I see BPCL already exporting diesel to BD. Is it coming from India's petroleum reserve or by import?

 

[Chanakya's_Chant]

Ok I see BPCL already exporting diesel to BD. Is it coming from India's petroleum reserve or by import?

Bangladesh has a shortfall of 1.5 mmtpa of petroleum products. Numaligarh Refinery had in 2007 exported 4,800 million tonne of diesel to Bangladesh through the waterways. The value of the export was around Rs 15 crore. Numaligarh Refinery refines both domestic crude oil from North-East particularly Digboi oil field as well as imported crude oil from Dhamra Port in Odisha. We are planning to lay a 130-km oil pipeline connecting the refinery's marketing terminal at Siliguri in West Bengal with Parbatipur in Bangladesh, we have already signed an agreement with Nepal's Birat Petroleum for supplying petroleum products through the same channel. The proposed pipeline will have a carrying capacity of 1 million metric tonne per annum (mmtpa) of high speed diesel (HSD) to BD and Myanmar.

 

[SSG-Korea]

I think BD should looks towards self sustainable projects. As most of time regional power use it as tool against each other. As BD economy is rapidly developing so, it is important for BD that it should go for his own energy plants rather putting dependency on India and it can be give backlash.

 

[dray]

Ok I see BPCL already exporting diesel to BD. Is it coming from India's petroleum reserve or by import?

Actually we are not blessed with much crude oil reserves, but we have the world's 3rd or 4th largest oil refinary capacities, we import crude oil and sell it after refining it.