Hindustan Petroleum Corporation has commissioned its Rs.1,757-crore Mundra-Delhi common carrier pipeline on 03 February 2009. The project has been commissioned within the scheduled time of 36 months.
This pipeline will enable transportation of oil products from HPCL's refineries as well as of others such as Indian Oil Corporation, Essar, Reliance Industries and MRPL. It can also carry imported products if there is a domestic shortage.
The pipeline connects the supply centres in Gujarat in the west to the consumer areas in various states, including, Gujarat, Rajasthan, Haryana, Delhi, UP, Punjab and further North. The main pumping station of the pipeline is at Mundra with two intermediate pumping stations in Gujarat at Santhalpur and Palanpur and three in Rajasthan at Awa, Ajmer and Jaipur. The pipeline system consists of a storage terminal at Mundra and marketing terminals with truck loading facilities at Palanpur, Ajmer, Jaipur, Rewari and truck as well as rail loading facilities at Bahadurgarh. The system has 76 storage tanks with a combined capacity of 611,000 kilo ltrs.
The pipeline has been commissioned under the principle of common carrier as laid down in the Petroleum Product Pipeline policy, which ensures optimum capacity utilisation. According to the policy, 25 per cent of the capacity is to be offered by the promoters to others for utilisation. Plans are in the pipeline to increase the current pipeline capacity of five million tpa to six million tpa in Phase II of the project.
Source : www.projectstoday.com
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