Describing the Pipeline Business in India and Business Opportunities

1. Oil & Gas Pipelines
Nortech Trinity India
Private Limited
Pipeline Opportunities in India

2. Opportunities & Roadmap
Pipeline is an established mode of transportation in the hydrocarbon industry worldwide for
decades and also in India. Pipelines are used to transport Crude Oil, Refined Petroleum Products
(HSD, SKO, MS, ATF, Naphtha, Black Oil, FO, LDO), Petrochemical Products, Chemicals, LPG,
Natural Gas, any other Gas.
Pipeline Industry in India - Brief Introduction
Pipeline is an established mode of transportation in the hydrocarbon industry worldwide for
decades. Pipelines are used to transport Crude Oil, Refined Petroleum Products (HSD, SKO, MS,
ATF, Naphtha, Black Oil, FO, LDO), Petrochemical Products, Chemicals, LPG, Natural Gas, any
other Gas.
India is the sixth largest consumer of oil in the world and the ninth largest crude oil importer. India’s oil and gas
sector contributes over 15% to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP). The Indian oil and gas industry is expected to be
worth USD 139,814.7 million by 2015. India’s economic growth is closely connected to energy demand. The need for
oil and gas is therefore projected to grow further, providing vast opportunities for investment.
To meet this demand, the Government of India has adopted various policies, such as allowing
100 per cent foreign direct investment (FDI) in many segments of the sector, such as natural gas,
petroleum products, pipelines, and refineries. This move along with various others has made the
oil and gas sector in India a more viable place to invest.

3. Market Highlights
The oil industry can be divided into three major components: upstream, midstream and downstream. The upstream
segment comprises Exploration and Production (E&P) activities. The midstream segment is involved in storage and
transportation of crude oil and natural gas. The downstream segment is engaged in refining and production of
petroleum products, and processing, storage, marketing and transportation of commodities such as crude oil and
natural gas.
In India crude oil is produced Onshore and Offshore. Onshore fields are in Assam/Nagaland, Arunachal Pradesh,
Gujarat, and Tamil Nadu/ Andhra Pradesh. Oil India Limited (OIL) and Oil and Natural Gas Commission (ONGC) have
the onshore field for crude oil production. Offshore production occurs at Bombay High run by ONGC and
Private/Joint Venture companies. For natural gas, onshore fields are at Assam, Tripura, Gujarat, Tamil Nadu, Andhra
Pradesh and Rajasthan. Offshore production of natural gas takes place at the Western area of Bombay High.
India has 20 refineries out of which —17 are in the public sector and three in the private sector. Few of the SEZs in
this sector are Reliance Petroleum SEZ, Mangalore SEZ in Karnataka, Gujarat Hydrocarbons and Power SEZ and
Nagarjuna Oil Corporation in Tamil Nadu.

4. Major Players
Public sector corporations dominate the Indian exploration and production sector. In terms of the percentage share
in total production Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) accounts for the highest share.
The second major player in the sector is also a public sector undertaking Oil India Limited (OIL). Both of these
undertakings account for about more than 70% of the total market. The remaining share of the pie is cluttered with
various private players in the market.

5. Names of the key players in the oil and gas industry in India are Oil India Ltd., Oil and Natural Gas Commission, Indian
Oil Corporation, Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd., Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd., Gas Authority of India
Ltd., Reliance Industries Ltd., Essar Oil, Adani Gas, Petronet LNG, Cairn Energy, Shell, British Gas and BP.
Sector Prospects
India has significant potential to discover new oil and gas basins since 78% of the country’s sedimentary area is yet
to be explored. Recent large-scale oil and gas discoveries in the Krishna Godavari and Rajasthan basins have amply
demonstrated this potential.
Exploration and production spend in the country has doubled from about USD 5.2 billion in 2010–11 to about USD
9.5 billion in 2014–15. Overall E&P spend is expected to be in the range of USD 140–116 billion in the next 5–6 years.
This will also create a sustained demand for oil field services like drilling rigs, offshore support vessels, tubular goods,
and seismic services and equipment for constructing process platforms, pipelines and collecting stations, as well as
other surface facilities for transportation of oil and gas from wells to delivery points.
The country’s gas pipeline coverage has increased substantially and has significant potential for further expansion.
India currently has a trunk gas pipelines network of 9,900 km with a transmission capacity of 292 MMSCMD.
The first crude oil pipeline in India was laid from Digboi oil fields to Digboi refinery. However, the
inherent advantages associated with pipeline were soon realized by users as well as government
and this led to development of this industry. Subsequently, a number of product and crude oil
pipelines were laid in the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s. Gas pipelines have come into the scene from late
eighties
In India, OIL (Oil India Limited) laid the first fully automated 1157 km long cross-country pipeline
of SouthEast Asia during 1960-63. The first cross-country product pipeline in India was laid by
Indian Oil Corporation Limited during 1962-64 to transport products from Guwahati refinery to
Siliguri. Both the pipeline systems are still in full operation.
The Salaya-Mathura Pipeline (SMPL) was built in 1978 to transport imported as well as indigenous
crude oil to two refineries of Indian Oil Corporation Ltd (IOCL) in Gujarat and Mathura in Uttar
Pradesh. This pipeline was later extended to feed IOCL’s Panipat Refinery in Haryana. The
country’s first single point mooring system was built in Vadinar village in Gujarat coast for SMPL
in.
Assam Gas Co. started gas pipeline network in Assam to distribute gas produced by OIL the power
plants, industries and households since sixties. India’s first cross country gas pipeline--1700 km

6. HaziraBijaipur-Jagdishpur (HBJ) network of was executed and commissioned by GAIL (India) Ltd
in 1987 with a gas transportation capacity of 18.2 MMSCMD mainly to link the gas sourced from
Bombay South Basin offshore field. Since expanded the HBJ Network now serves the states of
Gujarat, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi and Haryana.
The Dahej-Vijaipur pipeline (DVPL), the India’s first pipeline to carry LNG. It was constructed by
GAIL. The 42 inch 770 km long onshore pipeline has capacity of 24 MMSCMD. LPG pipeline
network In the country has increased to nearly 2500 Kms.
The East-west pipeline (EWPL) is one of the largest pipeline project executed in India This pipeline
had been implemented by Reliance Gas Transportation Infrastructure Ltd (RGTIL) to transports
gas from Reliance Industries Ltd RIL’s prolific Krishna Godavari Basin KG Block to the four States
of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Maharashtra, and Gujarat. The 1,385 km long 48 inch diameter
EWPL network has a capacity transport 80 MMSCMD of gas.
Cairn India’s 670 km long 24” crude oil onshore pipeline Mangala Development Pipeline (MDP) is
the world’s longest continuously heated and insulated pipeline. This crude oil pipeline is using
Skin Effect Heat Management System (SEHMS) to ensure that the crude oil remains above the
Wax Appearance Temperature (WAT). Through out the pipeline.
Presently, India’s hydrocarbon pipeline infrastructure as in the year 2012 :- 19,300 km for crude
oil 16,293 km for gas 15,903 km for products.
Total length of crude oil trunk pipeline 9,537 km Total Capacity 138 mmt Total length of trunk
pipeline for Refined product 11,218 km – Total capacity of 76.3 mmtpa FY12 LPG pipeline network
by length 2,312 km- FY12
At present the total gas trunk pipeline network in India is more than 10,000 km. Gas Authority of
India Ltd (GAIL) approximately 7,850 km trunk pipeline with capacity to carry 150 MMSCMD gas
RGTIL owns and operates East-West pipeline network of 1,385 km length and capacity of 80
MMSCMD GSPCL has trunk pipeline network of approximately 1,070 KM.
ONGC Leading National Oil & Gas Exploration Company of India ONGC owns and operates 8000
km onshore 4500 km offshore pipelines net work in its production areas. GAIL INDIA Major PSU
with Largest Gas Pipeline Network Indian Oil Corpn Ltd (IOCL) Major Transnational, Diversified ,
Integrated energy Company of India. IOCL operates a 11,163 km network of crude, gas and
product pipelines, with a capacity of 1.6 mbpd. This is around 30 per cent of the nation’s total
pipeline network. Hindustan Petroleum(HPCL) Major PSU, Leading Refining & Marketing
Company Bharat petroleum(BPCL) Major PSU, Leading Refining & Marketing Company Oil India
Ltd (OIL) PSU, Oil & Gas Exploration and Transportation Company Gujarat State Petroleum Corpn
(GSPC) Vertically Integrated Energy Company across India & overseas Reliance India Ltd (RIL)

7. Activities span exploration & production of oil & gas, refining, marketing and petrochemicals
Owns & operates EWPL Cairn India Largest private sector producer of oil Owns & Operates MDPL
Business Opportunities
Gas & Crude Pipelines
Ample opportunity to grow as a vendor for New Pipe Lines both for Gas & Crude as new policy says that India is
going to form National Gas Grid and in next five years approx 30,000 KM’s new pipe lines are going to be
announced. Approx Value of projects is USD 40 billion. Already 6000 KM’s new pipeline projects are announced
and this will be a good opportunity for Pipeline EPC Contractors, LSAW Pipe Suppliers and including pipeline valves
and auxiliary equipment.
IOCL Pipelines
The company is undertaking several projects such as integrated offshore crude oil handling
facilities at Paradip, de-bottlenecking of Salaya-Mathura-Pipeline, Paradip-Raipur-Ranchi
product pipeline, Paradip-Haldia-Budge-Budge-Durgapur LPG pipeline, Viramgam-Kandla
pipeline, construction of additional crude oil storage tanks at Vadinar, Patna-Raxual-Baitalpur
pipeline and dedicated ATF pipelines connecting Kolkata, Guwahati and Delhi (T-3) airports.
IOC also transports liquefied natural gas and natural gas through pipelines with combined
capacity of liquid pipelines is over 75 million tonnes per annum and gas pipeline is 10 million
standard cubic metres,"
Trans-national Pipelines
To augment the domestic supply of Natural Gas and LNG imports (Liquefied Natural Gas), the Government is
actively pursuing following pipeline projects:
 Iran Pakistan India Pipeline : This project plans to bring gas from the fields of Iran to India via Pakistan. A
special Joint Working Group (JWG) has been set up to implement this project by 2015. The project is
worth US$ 4.0 billion for about 2000 km pipeline.
 Myanmar Bangladesh India Pipeline : Indian companies ONGC Videsh Ltd (OVL) and GAIL India Ltd jointly
hold 30 per cent stake in offshore block A-1 in Myanmar, where commercial gas discoveries of about 5 tcf
were made in January 2004. The block has a capacity to produce 20-25 mmscmd for a period of 20 years.
In February 2004, Myanmar decided to sell its 65 per cent share of gas in block A-1 to GAIL. To transport
gas from Myanmar, a transnational 800 km pipeline costing US$ 1 billion is being proposed (Source :
MoPNG).

8.  Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan (TAP) pipeline : Daulatabad area of Turkmenistan is reported to have
sufficient gas reserves. There are plans to extend pipeline to transport gas from this area to India.
PIPELINE COATINGS
Coating Systems For Old Gas & Crude pipe lines which are approx. 40000 KM’s available for coatings and every
year approx. 2000 KM will be released for coatings from IOCL, GAIL, BPCL, OIL, HPCL, EIL, RIL, ESSAR and many
other players. Approx value of projects is INR 20,000 Crores. Year 2015-16 Approx 2200 KM’s pipe line will be
tendered for 2 Ply, 3 Layer PE/PP Coatings through tenders L1 System for supply and then 2nd
stage tenders for the
contractors.
COMPONENTS OF A TRANSPORTATION PIPELINE SYSTEM
Pipe, Valves, Scraper traps, Insulating flanges, Flow tees, Fittings, Flanges Other equipment
attached to the pipe, Compressor station stations (for gas lines), Pumping stations (for liquid
lines), Metering and regulating stations, Delivery stations, Intermediate pigging stations,
Sectionalizing valve stations Tap-off points.
SEAMLESS TUBES & PIPES (LSAW)
The opportunity arises to supply and manufacture Seamless Tubes & Pipes with state of the art plant in
India with technology & equipments from acknowledged world leaders in Seamless Tube & Pipe technology.
plant can be established with annual installed capacity of 220,000 M Tons for Carbon & Alloy Steel
Pipes and is to be equipped with modern manufacturing machineries and latest testing facilities
including Fusion Bonded Epoxy (FBE) and 3 layer Poly Ethylene (LPE) Coating Line.
need to be commissioned a state of the art PQF Mill and have also added a new Quench and Temper
Furnace, Up setter, Hydro tester, MAC EMI & UT and PMC Threading machines. With the addition of these
machines mill would be technologically at par with the best seamless mills internationally.
Industries Serviced
 Petroleum, Refineries & Fertilizers
 Oil Drilling
 Boilers, Heat Exchangers & Condenser Applications
 Super Heater & Low Temperature Applications
 Mechanical Tubing & Structural Application
 Automobile Applications

9.  General Engineering
 Fluid Conveyance Applications
 Bearing Steel Tube Industry
With Nortech Trinity you can be assured of getting booked your plant for forthcoming pipe projects in India for
several years.
If your company is interested in project we will be glad to furnish more information after establishing initial NDA &
agreement and then Nortech Trinity will be happy to share all the relevant information to take the decision of Go
or No Go.

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