Now in Assam, Asia’s longest underwater hydrocarbon pipeline | India News – Times of India

GUWAHATI: The government’s efforts to make natural gas available in the North-East received a major fillip, with Asia’s longest underwater hydrocarbon pipeline beneath the mighty Brahmaputra, connecting river island Majuli with Jorhat in upper Assam, completed by the Indradhanush Gas Grid Limited (IGGL).
The Herculean task of laying the 24-inch diameter pipeline by horizontal directional drilling (HDD) method was completed on Friday, IGGL CEO Ajit Kumar Thakur said on Saturday.
The completion of the Brahmaputra HDD marks a major milestone in the North East Gas Grid (NEGG) project, connecting the northeast with the National Gas Grid (NGG). Thakur said IGGL had now achieved more that 71% physical progress of the project and would be able to complete the Guwahati-Numaligarh section of NEGG by February 2024.
IGGL is implementing the 1,656-km-long NEGG natural gas pipeline project, being constructed at a cost of Rs 9,265 crore. The length of the pipeline across the main water channel of the Brahmaputra river is 4,080 metres. This is the longest river crossing by any hydrocarbon pipeline of 24-inch diameter and above in Asia and the second longest in the world, according to Thakur.