Hindustan Petroleum Corporation's (HPCL) 570 km long Visakhapatnam-Secunderabad petroleum products pipeline became completely operational in March 2002.

The pipeline would transport petroleum products such as high speed diesel (HSD), motor spirit (MS), superior kerosene oil (SKO) and naphtha from HPCL's Visakhapatnam refinery to different parts of Andhra Pradesh

The 350 km long stretch of pipeline between Visakhapatnam and Vijayawada had been commissioned in May 1998 with a capacity of four million tonnes, for evacuating petroleum products from the refinery for distribution in the consumption zones through HPCL’s terminals at Rajahmundry and Vijayawada.

The extension of this pipeline up to Secunderabad involved an additional 223 km of pipeline with an intermediate tap-off-cum-booster station at Suryapet and the final receiving station at Ghatkesar.

The throughput of the Visakhapatnam-Vijayawada stretch, which was 1.33 million tonnes in the first year of operation in 1998-99 and 2.60 million tonnes and 2.98 million tonnes in the subsequent two years, touched 3.20 million tonnes in 2001-02. The throughput of the entire stretch of the Visakhapatnam-Secunderabad pipeline is expected to go up to 5.38 million tonnes by 2007-08.