L&T to build India's first heated pipeline for crude for Cairn India

21 February 2008

Cairn India has awarded an engineering procurement and construction (EPC) services contract to the engineering and construction projects division of Larsen & Toubro for laying insulated crude oil pipeline and a gas pipeline from Barmer in Rajasthan to Salaya, in Gujarat.

The scope of work involves the laying of a cross country 24-inch skin heat traced pipeline with PUF insulation for crude oil transportation from the Mangala terminal at Barmer to the Salaya oil export terminal near Jamnagar.

The pipeline will travel 330 km south from the Mangala Field to a pump station and oil take-off point at Viramgam. From Viramgam the pipeline continues for 261km south west up to an export oil terminal at Salaya.

Another 8 inch diameter pipeline be laid for transporting natural gas from the Raageshwari Fields will be laid alongside the 24 inch pipeline to the Salaya receiving facility for feeding 32 gas generator enroute, which are meant primarily for producing electricity for 'skin effect heat management system' (SEHMS) to maintain the fluidity of the waxy crude.

L&T's pipeline engineering centre, L&T Gulf located at Faridabad, is a joint venture of L&T and Gulf Interstate, Houston. It will provide complete engineering services for the cross-country pipeline and the intermediate facilities for this project.

The multi-million dollar order was secured by L&T against stiff competition and the project is slated for commissioning by June 2009.