Indian Oil Corporation has dropped 15 pipeline projects due to the slow growth of petroleum products consumption in the country.

Pipeline projects dropped that have been dropped are:

1.       Kandla-Bhatinda pipeline to 11.5 million tonnes and Panipat-Bhatinda section of Kandla-Bhatinda pipeline to 2.5 million tonnes

2.       Kot-Chittaurgarh-Kota extension of Kandla-Bhatinda pipeline

3.       Nagapattinam-Madurai pipeline in Tamil Nadu

4.       Augmentation of Patna-Mughalsarai-Allahabad of Barauni-Kanpur pipeline to 5.5 million tonnes

5.       Allahabad-Satna extension of Barauni-Kanpur pipeline

6.       Mathura-Bharatpur product pipeline and expansion of Delhi-Mathura product pipeline to 5.3 million tonnes

7.       Expansion of Haldia-Mourigram section of Haldia-Barauni pipeline

8.       Mecheda-Jamshedpur-Bokaro extension of Haldia-Barauni pipeline

9.       Crude pipeline at Sandheads (Haldia) for IOC’s Barauni refinery, from East coast to Haldia, and New Haldia-Barauni pipeline

10.    Meerut-Moradabad-Bareilly extension of Sonepat-Meerut pipeline

11.    Bongaigaon-Siliguri pipeline of section Guwahati-Siliguri product pipeline

12.    Chennai-Kurnool-Raichur-Sangareddy pipeline

13.    Extension of Mathura-Tundla pipeline to Kanpur

14.    Extension of Mathura-Jalandhar-Pathankot product pipeline to Udhampur

15.    Koyali-Ratlam pipeline

Meanwhile, IOC has also proposed a few new pipelines. These include:

1.       Additional crude handling facilities on West Coast and laying of West Coast-Viramgam (near Ahmedabad) crude oil pipeline at a cost of Rs.1,179 crore

2.       Paradip-Haldia crude oil pipeline at a cost of Rs.1,100 crore

3.       Koyali-Dahej product pipeline at a cost of Rs.85.7 crore

4.       Extention of Mathura-Tundla pipeline to Gwalior at a cost of Rs.100 crore

5.       Chennai-Cuddapah-Guntakal product pipeline at a cost of Rs.400 crore

6.       Vasco-Belgaum-Miraj product pipeline with branch pipeline to Hubli at a cost of Rs.270 crore

7.       Patna-Raxaul-Baitalpur branch line to Barauni-Kanpur pipeline (to meet the future requirements of Nepal) at a cost of Rs.200 crore

8. Branch pipeline to Udaipur on Kandla-Bhatinda pipeline