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ITANAGAR, 26 Aug:<\/strong> Arunachal Pradesh is set to get a city gas distribution network with the Bharat Petroleum Corp Ltd (BPCL) and Oil India Ltd (OIL) signing an agreement on Tuesday to set up a joint venture company to implement the project.<\/p>\n As a part of the project, compressed natural gas (CNG) stations will be set up and piped natural gas (PNG) will be supplied<\/p>\n to households, commercial units, and industries in the state, a statement said.<\/p>\n The initiative is aimed at expanding clean energy access and contributing to the socio-economic development of the state, in line with the government’s gas-based economy vision, it said.<\/p>\n The agreement was signed at the BPCL’s corporate office in Mumbai in the presence of its CMD Sanjay Khanna and OIL’s CMD Ranjit Rath.<\/p>\n “This joint venture reaffirms BPCL’s commitment to expanding clean energy access across India, with special focus on the Northeast. Together with OIL, we will build a strong city gas distribution network to serve households, industries, and transport,” Khanna said.<\/p>\n “Arunachal Pradesh holds great potential, and through this initiative, we aim to drive sustainable growth, improve quality of life, and support India’s vision of a gas-based economy,” he added.<\/p>\n Rath said the establishment of the gas distribution would be a significant step for OIL to realise its vision of bringing clean and reliable energy to the region.<\/p>\n “OIL has a longstanding legacy of hydrocarbon production in the state and with the commissioning of the Kumchai-Kusijan gas pipeline last year, we successfully reinforced our role as an anchor in advancing the Centre’s hydrocarbon vision for the Northeast,” he added. (PTI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" ITANAGAR, 26 Aug: Arunachal Pradesh is set to get a city gas distribution network with the Bharat Petroleum Corp Ltd (BPCL) and Oil India Ltd (OIL) signing an agreement on Tuesday to set up a joint venture company to implement the project. As a part of the project, compressed natural gas (CNG) stations will be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-269617","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}