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Friday, October 08, 2021

The founding of the fossil fuel infrastructure in India

 The longest fuel pipeline is being built from Kandla to Gorakhpur across 2805 kms, that saves transportation costs. That is great. 

The commentary in the video is bombastic, implying ‘this is being done for the first time’. Obviously, this is not the first time. 

The longest cross-country pipeline in India before this one was the Mundra-Delhi pipeline running 1055 kms, commissioned in 2009. 

Oil production started in India in 1889 in Assam. Oil in colonial India was mostly exploited by a number of British companies to support British troops and industries in the United Kingdom.

After independence, the foreign companies continued to play a key role in the oil industry. This changed in 1956 when the government adopted an industrial policy that placed oil as a “schedule A industry” and put its future development in the hands of the state. The Oil and Natural Gas Commission was established for this purpose

In order to find the expertise necessary to reach these goals, foreign experts from West Germany, Romania, the US, and the Soviet Union were brought in. The increased focus on exploration resulted in the discovery of several new oil fields most notably the off-shore Bombay High field, which remains by a long margin, India's most productive well.

The Indian Oil Corporation which owns most of the refineries putting it within the top 20 oil companies in the world, was also established in the 1950s

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