New Delhi: Indian Oil Corporation IOC ), the country’s largest fuel retailer, along with Bharat Petroleum (BPCL) and Hindustan Petroleum (HPCL) will collectively lay the world’s longest liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) pipeline at a cost of Rs 10,000 crore, IOC said in a statement today.According to the company’s official release, the cross-country LPG pipeline stretching over 2,757 km, would start from Gujarat’s Kandla to Uttar Pradesh ’s Gorakhpur and will connect 22 bottling plants owned by the three oil marketing companies (OMCs).The proposed pipeline would be implemented by a joint venture (JV). IOC will have 50 per cent share in the JV with HPCL and BPCL having 25 per cent share each.Once completed, the single pipeline would be capable of transporting up to 8.25 million tonnes of LPG per year, amounting to about 25 per cent of India’s LPG demand.“The pipeline will source LPG from import terminals on the west coast and two refineries (at Koyali and Bina) and supply LPG to 22 bottling plants of the three OMCs connected en route – three in Gujarat, six in Madhya Pradesh (MP) and 13 in Uttar Pradesh,” IOC said in a statement.The Kandla-Gorakhpur LPG pipeline will supply LPG to 21 additional bottling plants in Rajasthan, Gujarat, MP, Maharashtra, and UP through road-bridging.