IOCL to expand pipeline network

HS Pati, Executive Director (eastern division) of Indian Oil Corporation (IOCL) said the company plans to expand its pipeline network by over 10,000-km in the coming years. The capacity of the pipeline network would increase by about 50 million metric tonne per annum (mn mtpa), Pati said. The firm recently decided to lay a 1,200-km oil pipeline from Paradip to Hyderabad passing through Visakhapatnam, he said. While the 1,065-km-long Paradip-Raipur-Ranchi pipeline at a cost of Rs 1,793 crore will supply LPG to bottling plants in Odisha and West Bengal, the 710-km Paradip-Haldia-Durgapur pipeline worth Rs 913 crore will transport refined products from Paradip refinery to consumption centres located in Odisha, Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand, he said.