On 19th April, Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri said that the Trincomalee oil farm project and the India–Sri Lanka oil pipeline were discussed with Sri Lankan President Anura Dissanayake during VP CP Radhakrishnan’s visit to the neighbouring country.
In a media interaction in Colombo, Misri said, “There is no further time to lose in making progress on strategic projects such as these.”
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Misri added that both the Sri Lankan and the Indian sides agreed on the necessity to expedite the oil hub project. He further stated that had this project been completed earlier, it would have been useful, especially at a time like this (the West Asia war and consequent energy crisis).
Last year, India, Sri Lanka and the UAE signed an agreement, after years of talks, to establish a multi-product oil pipeline that would connect India and Sri Lanka to set up a Trincomalee oil storage complex.
Notably, Trincomalee already houses a 99-tank oil storage farm from the British colonial era. However, of these, only 14 containers are in use under a previous agreement with an Indian oil company.
