IndianOil IndianOil’s first LPG Pipeline inaugurated in North India From Panipat-Nabha-Jalandhar   Yet another glorious chapter was added to the golden history of IndianOil today. Mr. Sarthak Behuria, Chairman, inaugurated IndianOil’s first cross-country Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) pipeline in North India running between Panipat and Jalandhar. The inauguration was at Kohand Pipeline Installation in Panipat. Now, IndianOil has joined the select group of companies in India, which owns and operates LPG pipelines. During the historic inaugural function, Mr. Sarthak Behuria, Chairman, IndianOil said, “With this pipeline our LPG evacuation operation from Panipat Refinery is now streamlined and the capacity utilisation of Nabha and Jalandhar installation is on the increase. Apart from providing better logistics, this pipeline will result in direct savings of more than Rs. 30 crore per annum towards the transportation cost.” Mr. P.K. Chakraborti, Director (Pipelines), in his address said that IndianOil has built this pipeline as part of its continued quest to meet the energy requirements of the nation in the most reliable, safe, environment-friendly and cost-effective manner. IndianOil is committed to building and optimising hydrocarbon infrastructure across the country, he added. Mr. G. C. Daga, Director (Marketing) said that it would be convenient for Marketing Division to move the product in a faster, safer and economic way from Panipat Refinery. The 273-km Panipat-Jalandhar LPG pipeline has an intermediate delivery station for feeding IndianOil’s LPG Bottling Plant at Nabha (near Patiala). The pipeline has been designed for an initial capacity of 700,000 MT to optimally transport LPG from Panipat to Nabha and Jalandhar on a long-term basis and simultaneously to meet the requirement of LPG at IndianOil’s LPG bottling plants at Jalandhar and Nabha in Punjab, Una and Baddi in Himachal Pradesh and at Jammu and Leh in J&K. Till now, LPG produced at IndianOil’s Panipat Refinery was being transferred through a 7-km pipeline to its LPG bottling plant at Kohand. After meeting the requirement at Kohand LPG bottling plant, the balance product was being despatched to other bottling plants at Nabha, Jalandhar, Jammu, etc. by road through ‘bullet trucks.’ The LPG pipeline will help IndianOil to deal with the problem of loading and unloading of tankers besides traffic congestion and save on transportation cost. More importantly, pipelines are recognised the world-over as the most reliable, safe and environment-friendly mode for transportation of petroleum products. The Panipat-Jalandhar LPG pipeline system has been implemented completely with in-house professionals of Pipelines Division who have the expertise to undertake cross-country pipeline projects from concept to commissioning. In addition to the overall savings in the distribution cost of LPG, other intangible savings would be in the form of reliability, lower transit losses and safety in transportation. The pipeline is operated and controlled through SCADA system with dedicated and dependable OFC communication system which is used for continuous monitoring and control. The computerised SCADA system is provided to have a centralised monitoring and control of pipeline operation, leak detection, batch & pig tracking, and management information system. SCADA scheme has a Master Control Centre at Kohand, interfacing both Nabha and Jalandhar delivery stations. All the pumping and delivery stations have microprocessor based instrumentation system. Master Control Centre gathers operational data from all the remote stations along the pipeline and displays the data in the graphic form and in engineering units at operator interfaces. Station Control Centre gathers data from block valves under their jurisdiction. Updated on April 07,2009 Copyright © Indian Oil Corporation Ltd.