Dhaka, March 7 -- The construction of Bangladesh's oil pipeline with India is complete, connecting West Bengal to the Dinajpur district.

The Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation, the state fuel importer and distributor, will use the country's first international pipeline for tests on Wednesday.

The project, known as India-Bangladesh Friendship Pipeline,

stretches 130 km from West Bengal's Siliguri to a Meghna petroleum depot in Dinajpur's Parbatipur.

The pipeline project launched in March 2020 had an initial deadline of June 2022. However, it was pushed back another year due to complications from the COVID-19 pandemic.

Oil will be coming through the pipeline from the Numaligarh Refinery Limited distribution terminal for testing of the pi...