As part of its Hydrocarbon Vision 2030 for the north-eastern region, the government of India plans to lay up to 6,900 km of gas pipelines connecting north-eastern states (Siliguri, Durgapur) and West Bengal (India) to Chittagong in Bangladesh and Sitwe in Myanmar. Thirteen routes with a total length of 6,900 km of pipelines have been proposed for the gas pipeline project.
The Hydrocarbon Vision 2030 envisions doubling oil and gas production in the north-eastern region, where hydrocarbon production has already begun but . India already where large quantities of gas are flared due to the lack of infrastructures delivering gas to consumers. National oil and gas company ONGC plans to invest Rs 5,050 crore (US$757m) in gas exploration in Tripura, to drill at least 153 wells and to boost gas production from 5.1 mcm/d to at least 6.25 mcm/d. So far, ONGC has discovered 11 gas fields in the state, of which 7 are already on production.
India is already cooperating with Bangladesh; Indian Oil Corporation and Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation (BPC) agreed in April 2016 to jointly develop an LPG terminal in Chittagong that would pipe gas to north-eastern states in India. Numaligarh Refinery Ltd (NRL) also signed an agreement with BPC to build a pipeline from Siliguri (West Bengal) to Parbatipur in Bangladesh supplying High Speed Diesel (HSD) to the neighbouring country.