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Indian Oil Corporation Ltd. operates a network of 10329 km long crude oil and petroleum product pipelines with a capacity of 71.60 million metric tonnes per annum. Cross-country pipelines are globally recognised as the safest, cost-effective, energy-efficient and environment-friendly mode for transportation of crude oil and petroleum products.
During the year 2008-09 IndianOil’s crude oil pipelines registered the throughput of 38.46 million metric tonnes. Corporation’s largest crude oil handling facility at Vadinar marked the berthing of 4000th tanker since inception. The terminal operates two offshore Single Point Mooring (SPM) systems, to feed Koyali, Mathura and Panipat refineries.
Raising efficiency and emerging as the least-cost supplier, IndianOil has added the 330-km Paradip-Haldia crude oil pipeline (PHCPL) to its bustling pipeline network during the year. The PHCPL system has a Single Point Mooring installed 20-km off the Paradip coast. With this, it is now able to pump crude oil from Very Large Crude Carriers to the tank-farm set up onshore and onward to Haldia through the pipeline. The Pipeline has replaced the earlier system of receipt of crude oil at Haldia port through smaller tankers.
On the west coast, the Mundra-Panipat pipeline is being further augmented to transport an additional 3 Million Metric Tonne Per Annum (MMTPA) of crude oil to Panipat Refinery, under expansion from 12 to 15 MMTPA. Additional requirement of crude oil for Koyali, Mathura and Panipat refineries is planned to be met by de-bottlenecking and augmenting Salaya-Mathura Pipeline system.
IndianOil’s product pipelines, connecting its refineries directly to high-consumption centres, achieved a throughput of 20.92 million tonnes during 2008-09. IndianOil has now joined the select group of companies in India which owns and operates LPG pipelines by building its first such cross-country facility linking Panipat with Jalandhar. Apart from providing better logistics, this pipeline can transport 700,000 tonnes of LPG from Kohand near Panipat refinery to IndianOil’s bottling plants at Jalandhar and Nabha in Punjab. The pipeline will also simultaneously to meet the requirement of LPG at Una and Baddi in Himachal Pradesh and at Jammu and Leh in J&K.
Two pipelines linking the major airports of India have been commissioned during the year to transport Aviation Turbine Fuel to these airports. The 36 km long pipeline from existing Devangonthi terminal to New Bengaluru International Airport, Devanhalli, Bengaluru was commissioned in October 2008. The 95 km long ATF pipeline from CPCL to Chennai AFS was commissioned in December 2008.
In its continuous efforts of expanding the network IndianOil is implementing 290 km long product pipeline from Chennai to Bengaluru to facilitate cost effective positioning of products at consumption centre located in and around Bengaluru and to strengthen product positioning capabilities of CPCL Refinery. IndianOil is also implementing a 217 km long branch pipeline from Koyali-Sanganer Pipeline at Viramgam to existing scrapper station at Churwa along with use of a 14 km long existing pipeline from Churwa to Kandla.
One of the major product pipelines currently under execution is 290 km long Chennai-Bengaluru Pipeline. A 21-km spur line from Mathura to Bharatpur and a 94-km branch line to Hazira on the Koyali-Dahej pipeline are also under implementation. A grassroots terminal facility is being set up at Ratlam to feed the local markets. A 118-km pipeline is being laid from Bijwasan to Panipat for transporting Naphtha from Mathura Refinery to the upcoming Naphtha Cracker unit at Panipat.
IndianOil sees gas pipelines as a major growth area in the future. The gas market in India is expanding fast, thanks to enhanced availability of the product from indigenous sources and through imports. The Corporation will commission its first regassified LNG pipeline from Dadri to Panipat (132 km) to synchronise with the completion of the first phase of the power plant coming up under the Naphtha Cracker project at Panipat.
IndianOil has translated the expertise of its personnel in pipeline operations into a business opportunity, by offering training and consultancy to several Indian and overseas companies. Currently, the Corporation is imparting training for personnel of the Greater Nile Petroleum Company, Sudan.
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