IndianOil First cross-country LPG pipeline inaugurated
New Delhi   16-Apr-2009
Yet another glorious chapter was added to the golden history of IndianOil. 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. Behuria 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." The 273-km Panipat-Jalandhar LPG pipeline has an intermediate delivery station for feeding IndianOil’s LPG Bottling Plant at Nabha. 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 HP and at Jammu and Leh in J&K.