{"id":18157,"date":"2026-08-22T04:16:57","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T04:16:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/?p=18157"},"modified":"2026-08-22T04:16:57","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T04:16:57","slug":"indias-downstream-gas-regulator-approves-lpg-pipeline-infrastructure-worth-731-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/18157\/","title":{"rendered":"India&#8217;s downstream gas regulator approves LPG pipeline infrastructure worth $731 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"pre-content-text\"><a style=\"color: #0038a8;\" href=\"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/\">RoydadNaft &#8211; <\/a><\/span>\u00a0India&#8217;s downstream petroleum and gas regulator said on Friday it has approved the laying of about 1,800 km of \u200cLPG pipeline infrastructure at an estimated investment of 70 billion rupees ($731.49 million).<\/p>\n<p data-reader-unique-id=\"18\">The Petroleum and Natural Gas Regulatory Board said the pipelines will pass through six states: Telangana, Maharashtra, Uttar \u2060Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Karnataka and Goa.<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"ArticleList\" data-reader-unique-id=\"21\">\n<ul role=\"list\" data-testid=\"unordered-0\" data-reader-unique-id=\"22\">\n<li data-reader-unique-id=\"23\">\n<div data-testid=\"Body\" data-reader-unique-id=\"24\">The projects have been authorised for development by India&#8217;s top natural gas distributor GAIL India, the regulator said.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-reader-unique-id=\"28\">\n<p data-reader-unique-id=\"29\">Upon completion, the country&#8217;s common-carrier liquefied petroleum gas pipeline network will expand more than 23% to about 9,500 km.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-reader-unique-id=\"30\">\n<p data-reader-unique-id=\"31\">The plan reflects India&#8217;s efforts to bolster energy-supply \u200cresilience \u2060as conflict in the Middle East and geopolitical risks raise concerns over fuel trade routes.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-reader-unique-id=\"32\">\n<p data-reader-unique-id=\"33\">India relies significantly on imported LPG, the regulator said, and the new \u2060pipelines are intended to improve the movement of supplies and the country&#8217;s ability to respond effectively during supply \u2060disruptions and emergencies.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-reader-unique-id=\"34\">\n<p data-reader-unique-id=\"35\">The projects are also expected to reduce the movement of LPG tank \u2060trucks, improving road safety, lowering logistics costs and easing traffic congestion.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p data-reader-unique-id=\"36\">($1 = 95.6950 Indian rupees)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"India&#8217;s downstream petroleum and gas regulator said on Friday it has approved the laying of about 1,800 km of \u200cLPG pipeline infrastructure at an estimated investment of 70 billion rupees ($731.49 million).","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18158,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,20,46,36,19,35],"tags":[],"services":[],"class_list":["post-18157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-gas","category-international","category-lastnews","category-news","category-topnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18157"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18159,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18157\/revisions\/18159"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18157"},{"taxonomy":"services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/services?post=18157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}