The cylinder comes home

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Apurva: Nov 18 2012, 01:49 IST

The lone red cylinder dangles noisily from the carriage of Sanjay’s bicycle as he pedals through the lanes of south Delhi’s Shahpur Jat. Sanjay, who works as a delivery man for a gas agency in Hauz Khas, is on his eleventh and final delivery for the day. As he hefts the cylinder over the threshold of a customer’s door and collects a signature and a small tip, the cylinder wobbles a bit before settling down. The LPG (Liquefied Petroleum Gas) inside has just completed a journey that began close to 5,000 km away, in the oil fields of the Middle East, from where the crude travelled on ships, trucks and trains, was subjected to a myriad of processes to produce LPG, funnelled through a labyrinth of pipelines and finally injected into cylinders to get to this doorstep.

THE REFINERY

Indian Oil Corporation (IOC)’s Panipat (Haryana) refinery is considered one of India’s most modern plants. The refinery boasts of a capacity of 15 MMTPA, that’s million metric tonnes per annum. The fully-automated plant, sprawled across 1,070 acres, operates day and night throughout the year, stopping rarely for maintenance, and caters to India’s high-consumption areas of Haryana, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Chandigarh, Uttarakhand, Rajasthan and New Delhi. IOC controls 10 of India’s 22 refineries.

According to IOCL, the Panipat refinery gets its crude through the 1,370-km-long Salaya (Gujarat)-Mathura pipeline. Besides Panipat, the pipeline also supplies crude to the Koyali refinery in Gujarat and the Mathura refinery in Uttar Pradesh.

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