Pipelines in India

Pipelines in India

The first of the pipelines to transport crude from oilfields to refineries was a 1152-km-long pipeline with a rated capacity of 40 lakh tonnes established by Oil India Ltd. in 1962-1964 to connect the oilfields in Naharkatiya to Gauhati and Barauni refineries in Assam. Since then, other pipelines have been constructed. The Ankleshwar-Koyali crude pipeline established in 1965, the Nawagam-Kalol-Koyali crude pipeline, the Kalol-Sabarmati crude pipeline, the .Cambay-Dhuvaran gas pipeline, the Ankleshwar-Vadodara associated gas pipeline and the Ankleshwar-Uttaran gas pipeline are in Gujarat.

There is also the Noonmati-Siliguri product pipeline, the Lakwa­Rudrasgar-Barauni crude pipeline finished in 1968, and the Barauni-Haldia pipeline (1966). A 1,085 km pipeline runs from Salaya in Kutch to Koyali and Mathura. A product pipeline from Mathura to Jalandhar has also been laid. Today, the Gas Authority of India Limited (GAIL) owns and operates a network of over 5,200 kilometers of pipeline in all the four regions of the country, supplying about 62.6 MMSCMD of gas per day as a fuel to power plants for generation of about 5,500 MW of power, as feedstock for gas based fertiliser plants to produce about 10 MMTPA of urea.